Month: November 2018

Apps News

NW London patient portal expands its reach

The Care Information Exchange across North West London now hosts the health records of up to 2.3 million people. Powered by Patients Know Best and funded by £3 million investment from Imperial Health Charity, CIE collects data from hospitals and GP practices in the area, and 15 other hospitals outside […]

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Apps

Two apps join NHS Apps Library

Two innovative startups have joined the NHS Apps Library; the TrackActive and iPrescribe Exercise Apps. TrackActive was founded five years ago by Ian Prangley, a professional sports coach and physio who hopes that TrackActive will change the face of treatment for musculoskeletal injury by helping to keep patients active and recover […]

News

Nine councils awarded funding to use digital innovation to create social care of the future

NHS Digital has announced 9 councils have been awarded funding for digital innovation following a call for applications earlier in the year. The digitisation projects include, devices for measuring anxiety triggers, online financial self-assessment and benefits checker tools, and an app for social care providers, enabling them to collate important employment […]

International

Australian health region benefits from bedside tech

Patientrack’s new Bed Board module will replace bedside whiteboards for ACT Health, meaning healthcare professionals no longer need to manually write updates. The system pulls in data from multiple systems to display critical patient information at the patient bedside including demographics to aid in positive patient identification, patient location, estimated date […]

News

Instant messaging vital during a crisis

New guidance for the NHS will help  staff use instant messaging safely to co-ordinate patients’ care during emergencies. Healthcare professionals have turned to communication channels such as Whatsapp to deal with emergency situations. The new guidance will help NHS organisations and staff to make a judgement on how and when to […]

International

Amazon expands HIPAA eligible machine learning

Amazon AWS has announced that Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible services. Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that automatically creates text transcripts from audio files will allow healthcare organisations to create text transcripts calls with […]