The agenda for HTN Digital Week has developed and we are pleased to confirm 5 webinars have joined the programme of digital activity. HTN Digital Week is an innovative week to celebrate, share and showcase your work across healthcare technology from 21st – 25th January 2019. The webinars added to the agenda […]
Month: December 2018
Orca Health launches waiting room
Orca Health has launched Waiting Room, a digital content platform designed to streamline and improve the patient experience from diagnosis to treatment to post-surgical care. The company has been implementing Waiting Room at NYU Langone and will roll it out to its existing user base.. The app’s capabilities help patients and […]
Ascom wins UK care home contract
Ascom has won a contract with Wren Hall Nursing Home in Nottingham – rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission. The contract will see Ascom rolling out its teleCARE platform for nearly 100 staff caring for 53 residents aged between 67-99. The platform integrates staff messaging via Ascom’s Myco smartphone […]
Highland Marketing looks ahead to 2019
The turmoil in UK politics makes it hard to look too far ahead, but it is long-term trends that will shape the NHS and health tech through 2019, and well thought communications that will ensure success for vendors, say Lyn Whitfield and Mark Venables. Lyn Whitfield, director of content strategy, […]
PRSB publishes standards for document indexing
A new document naming standard developed by the PRSB in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians Health Informatics Unit aims to ensure that records are properly named and indexed, so they can be retrieved in order to provide ongoing care. People can easily have hundreds of digital and paper […]
Hampshire Hospitals launches My Medical Record
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is launching a new digital system that will give patients more opportunity to manage their own hospital care. My Medical Record is a system that allows patients to connect with clinicians and receive information from the Trust online, reducing the need for them to visit […]
NHS hits e-referral and NHS Spine milestones
NHS Digital has announced the NHS e-Referral Service has hit 100 million bookings and the NHS Spine has reached one billion transactions. Currently the e-referral service is booking around 400,000 referrals every week. The announcement from NHS Digital comes as new guidance has been launched for GPs to ensure they are […]
HTN 100: NICE, NELFT, Imprivata and Olympus
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. NICE launches evidence standards framework for digital health technologies NICE has launched standards is to make it easier for innovators and commissioners to understand what good levels […]
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust adopts FHIR standards
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recently implemented SMART® on FHIR® APIs within their Cerner EHR. Open standards have been developed to simplify integration within health and social care, making it easier to write complementary applications to enhance the functionality of the electronic health record. The use of common standards and open application […]
New report provides insight into digital uptake in maternity services
A new report from NHS Digital shows the majority of maternity providers are making a good start at using digital technology, according to the Maternity Digital Maturity Assessment report. All 135 maternity providers completed an assessment of their progress in adopting digital technology, such as providing electronic health records, sharing information digitally […]
