Elmwood has signed DigiBete a patient-centred video sharing platform and educational resource about Type 1 Diabetes, as the maiden entrepreneurs for its 12-week accelerator programme, Elmwood LaunchPod. The free to access national Diabetes platform, DigiBete.org, celebrated its launch in February 2018 and has received much acclaim since, including winning the ‘Best Use […]
Month: August 2018
Welsh Health Board picks Idox Health records management
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board is the second site in Wales to sign up to Idox Health’s iFIT logistics management platform. The platform has utilised “Invest to Save” funding from NHS Wales. Idox Health’s Records management module iRecords is expected to go live across the Health Board’s four acute […]
AI as good as top experts Moorfield Eye Hospital announces
An artificial intelligence (AI) system that can recommend the correct referral decision for over 50 eye diseases as accurately as world-leading experts has been developed by researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, DeepMind Health and University College London (UCL) Institute of Ophthalmology. The breakthrough research, published online by […]
Opinion Piece: Combinatorial innovation and collaboration: the key to successfully embedding new technologies in the NHS?
John Craig, Chief Executive of Care City Test Bed, highlights the successes of ‘combinatorial innovation’ and why collaboration is king when it comes to embedding new technologies and services into whole systems and pathways. You cannot admit to many people that you are obsessed with public sector innovation before one […]
Prudential and Babylon to pioneer AI in Asia
Prudential Corporation Asia has announced it has entered into an exclusive partnership agreement with Babylon Health. Babylon’s artificial intelligence expertise will be made available to existing and new customers of Prudential across Asia marking a step change in Prudential’s commitment to provide digital health services making healthcare affordable and accessible […]
Every GP practice across London successfully makes switch to Electronic Prescription Service
GP practices across London have successfully made the switch to using the Electronic Prescription Service. A total of 1,311 eligible GP practices across London now use the service that means patients’ prescription can be sent directly from their doctor’s surgery to their pharmacist – without the need for paper prescriptions. GP […]
4 NHS Trusts to utilise Darktrace cyber security
Darktrace, a leading AI company for cyber defense, has announced that 4 NHS Trusts will be adopting Darktrace’s AI technology to safeguard systems and patient information, including prescription and blood type data. In 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack spread globally and implicated 61 NHS organisations. Darktrace Antigena successfully interrupted the […]
New care record guide published by PRSB
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published its revised standards for the structure and content of health and care records to support digital information sharing among professionals and help people access better, safer care. The “PRSB Standards for the Structure and Content of Health and Care Records” an essential […]
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to deploy Allscripts
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has chosen Allscripts to deliver an electronic patient record and help it achieve its digital ambitions over the next ten years. The trust already uses the Allscripts patient administration system, following a go-live in October last year. It will now roll-out the Sunrise clinical suite […]
Genmed delivers for Wirral and West Cheshire
Genmed is delivering a variety of vendor neutral managed services for the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and a shared medical microbiology service run by the two organisations which supports around 700,000 people in the local area. The company said it has sourced […]
