Health and social care providers across Berkshire are sharing health and care information electronically on up to 850,000 residents in one of the country’s largest shared care record projects. The first major phase of Berkshire’s shared care record initiative has gone live. Known as Connected Care, the new clinical system […]
Month: January 2018
SWYPFT signs contract for SystmOne Mental Health
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYPFT) has signed a five year contract with TPP to deploy the SystmOne Mental Health module across all of its services. The contract is an addition to the existing Shared Business Service (SBS) Framework contract the Trust has with TPP. The Trust employs […]
Powys Teaching Health Board first in Wales for FDB OptimiseRx
Powys Teaching Health Board is the first Welsh health board to go live with FDB OptimiseRx, which supports GPs to prescribe in line with local and national guidance and reduce the variation in prescribing. The solution provides prescribing decision support for primary care that presents prescribers with guidance messages that […]
Robotic tech to help Fortius Clinic and Bupa at new health centre
Fortius Clinic and Bupa have announced a partnership which will provide hip and knee replacements using the latest ground-breaking robotic technology. The cutting-edge MAKO robotic technology enables highly accurate placement of personalised knee or hip implants, smaller incisions, and faster recovery times. As demand for joint replacement grows robotic technology is said to […]
NHS Digital publishes guidance for cloud
NHS Digital has published guidance to set clear expectations for health and care organisations who want to use cloud services or data offshoring to store patient information. The guidance will ensure that organisations know how to use these solutions safely and securely, especially in the light of the fact that […]
New standard for diabetes self management as NHS adopts Global HealthTech Top 100 innovation company
The global health crisis of Type 2 diabetes is spiralling rapidly out of control. The consequent drain on health economies around the world is enormous; direct and indirect costs of diabetes in the UK alone have reached a staggering £23.7 billion per year. At current trends, that figure will have […]
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust chooses Agfa
Agfa HealthCare has announced that West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract to implement their Enterprise Imaging for Radiology platform in a ten-year managed services agreement. The solution is said to support around 200,000 studies each year, with an average annual growth of 5%. “West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is an […]
Totalmobile and Servelec HSC launch industry leading mobile solution
Totalmobile a leading mobile workforce solution provider, and Servelec HSC have jointly launched an new offering to deliver significantly improved access to patient information for frontline health and care professionals. The solution enables Servelec HSC’s electronic patient record and case management system, RiO, to integrate directly with Totalmobile’s mobile workforce enablement platform, […]
Fresh debate needed as complexity of spreading NHS innovation laid bare in new report out today
A new report from The King’s Fund, commissioned by six Academic Health and Science Networks, charts the journeys of eight innovations from creation to widespread patient use. The report, published today at http://www.ahsnnetwork.com/kings-fund-report/, examines examples of successful innovations in the NHS and charts their journeys to draw out common themes and […]
Hancock Health, Indiana hit with cyber-attack and pays ransom
Indiana-based Hancock Health was hit with a cyber attack on Thursday last week, which prompted the organisation to shut down its entire network. The full-service healthcare provider posted notices at their entrances of a system-wide outage and employees turned off all computers on the network. There were no appointments or […]
