Facebook has stepped up its efforts to tackle fake news online by sending warnings to users who may have seen news that is not accurate. The platform will show messages in the news feed to users who have interacted with content that has been reviewed and considered misinformation. Whether a […]
Month: April 2020
Yeovil Hospital connects to Dorset Care Record
Yeovil Hospital for the first time is now able to view data from the Dorset Care Record, the platform used to share key patient information across providers. The hospital typically takes 30% of emergency patients from across Dorset CCG, and now can view GP records and other datasets for these […]
HTN Trends Series: System Wide Digital in Cornwall
As part of the Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we explore how Cornwall IT Services working with the teams at Kernow CCG, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article we hear from Kelvyn Hipperson, Chief Information Officer, […]
National Data Guardian programme to explore health data sharing
The National Data Guardian for Health and Care has partnered with Understanding Patient Data and Sciencewise to explore how people weigh up the benefits and disadvantages of health and social care data sharing for research. The project was initiated months before the COVID-19 pandemic, however the programme will explore the […]
HTN Webinar Learning Series: Healthcare interoperability and supporting pathology during the COVID-19 pandemic
In our webinar last week as part of the HTN Learning Series, John Mitchell, Implementation Consultant with Lyniate explains how the integration platform Rhapsody and their partner Clinisys are helping with the COVID-19 pandemic by assisting with the large volume of pathology testing as a result of COVID-19. To view […]
myGP partners with GPDQ to increase video consultation capacity
iPlato, the creator of myGP, the software used to support a digital first primary care has partnered with online GP service provider GPDQ. The partnership means GP practices using myGP can increase their capacity when needed and utilise the GPDQ medical team for patient video consultations. A team of remote […]
Royal Wolverhampton and University Hospitals Birmingham sign with Babylon
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust have signed with Babylon to use its COVID-19 app to support patients. The company is providing its AI digital care assistant to help support and monitor coronavirus patients 24/7 in the community. People can use the service to check their […]
Biobank GP data to be made available to scientists to tackle COVID-19
Data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants is to be made available to support scientists tackle COVID-19. Primary care data containing COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases from a dataset of over 503,000 consented participants will be extracted on a monthly basis for COVID-19 research purposes. The programme is being provided through Public […]
Calderdale and Huddersfield innovate with tech
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT has embraced digital to transform ways of working and ensure safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Voice recognition is being used in high risk areas using Nuance Powermic to ensure staff can quickly enter and view notes in Cerner, without taking off their protective gear. The […]
From Academia to the NHS: Thoughts from a Data Scientist in this time of crisis
By Benjamin Taylor, Lead Data Scientist, Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS FT for HTN. Ben, the first ever data scientist at the trust started on 23rd March 2020. Here Ben covers some of his experiences so far, the predictive modelling he has done and his challenges and ambitions. Having spent all but one of the last 20 […]
