NHS Digital has entered into a three-year strategic partnership with IBM to provide a range of new and improved services to health and care organisations. These services will enhance data security and cyber security response and provide additional defence against increasingly complex, evolving threats. The additional services will expand NHS […]
Month: June 2018
Digital Care Home prevents emergency hospital admissions
Care home workers are playing a vital role in an exciting new partnership between care homes and the NHS aiming to improve the quality of life of residents and reduce emergency hospital admissions in Sheffield. The Digital Care Home is piloting a new model of collaborative working between health and […]
Thames Valley and Yorkshire and Humber join Local Health and Care Record Exemplars
Last month NHS England announced three areas, covering 14 million people, had been chosen to become ‘Local Health and Care Record Exemplars’ (LHCRE). New partnerships that will each receive up to £7.5 million over two years to put in place an electronic shared local health and care record that makes […]
Private healthcare data to be captured by NHS systems
An initiative has been launched to ensure private healthcare data is recorded in the same way as NHS data in England, with the aim of improving consistency across the system. The Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt) aims to integrate data on privately funded healthcare into NHS systems and standards for […]
New app connects rheumatology patients in Torbay
Torbay Hospital Rheumatology Department have brought patients and physicians together with a new app; Rheumatology Connect. Dr Kirsten Mackay, a rheumatology consultant at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, commissioned an app from partnership organisation Health & Care Videos. Having worked closely with the department on other online resources, […]
Opinion Piece: Practices need to seize the opportunity of consolidating IT systems
The trend for surgeries to become part of wider networks or federations of practices creates a great opportunity for them to use technology to work more effectively with their patients and peers, argues Paul Bensley, managing director of X-on. Increasing numbers of GP practices across the UK are looking to […]
UK Space Agency launches multi-million pound drive to improve patient care with NHS England
A search for hi-tech solutions to the major health and care challenges facing the NHS in its 70th anniversary year is underway with up to £4 million from the UK Space Agency. In the joint initiative with NHS England, Innovators will bid for money to turn technology originally designed for […]
Funding boost to innovate social care – South Tyneside Council
South Tyneside Council has been awarded £20,000 to investigate how technology can be used to improve communication with people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The Council is one of just 12 across the country which have been selected from 80 to receive the funding from NHS Digital and the Local […]
New technology helps to improve treatment for NHS patients with depression
A new web-based “feedback” technology which allows therapists to accurately monitor how patients with depression are coping has been found to reduce the probability of deterioration during psychological treatment by 74%, a new study has found. The study, which is the largest controlled trial of its kind, involved data from […]
Nightingale Health and UK Biobank announce major initiative
Nightingale Health the blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. Nightingale’s biomarker profiling technology will be used to analyse UK Biobank blood samples by measuring metabolic biomarkers that recent studies have found are predictive of future risk for heart […]
