Our final day of HTN Digital Week, and what a fantastic week we had, we kicked off with Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital. Paul took us through an update on the digital transformation programme in the Wirral region. Paul started the presentation […]
Month: June 2020
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day Four
Our penultimate day of HTN Digital Week we welcomed and opened with Beth Lawton on Keeping Digital Human. Beth is Chief Digital and Information Officer for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. She begins by telling us how they have responded to Covid-19 through digitising, virtualising and mobilising. Beth explained how […]
Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020 Winners Revealed
Following a fantastic digital awards evening HTN is delighted to reveal the highly commended entries and winners in the Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions. Key to the awards, the HTN team will be writing about the entries to feature across our channels over the upcoming weeks, […]
Live from 7:30pm Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020
We are live at 7:30pm tonight for the HTN Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions. Follow us on Twitter here or follow the awards using #HTNDigitalWeek Or view our live feed on our website to hear about the entries, and we reveal the winners and highly commended here: […]
Kent and Medway implements tool to manage COVID-19 care across seven hospitals
A digital dashboard has been utilised across Kent and Medway to consolidate all relevant information for the management of COVID-19 care. The COVID-19 NHS response team at Kent and Medway CCG can now instantly check the availability of staff, beds and crucial equipment used to care for coronavirus patients, thanks […]
NHS Digital updates Summary Care Record screen with COVID alerts
NHS Digital has updated the Summary Care Record screen with national standard clinical terms specifically relating to COVID-19. Five of the SNOMED CT commonly used terms for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases are signposted by a yellow message box when viewing the Summary Care Record screen. The information is also made […]
Imprivata supports virtual visits with free software
Imprivata has launched a free offering to support healthcare providers with virtual patient visits and communication during COVID-19. The software, GroundControl, has been made available to support interactions between patients, clinicians and close relatives through mobile devices. The tool is being used to support remote communication with care providers, virtual patient visits […]
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day Three
On the third day of HTN Digital Week June 2020 we hosted five live sessions. The first session we were joined by Alfresco discussing Content Services for the NHS, Delivering Positive Patient Outcomes in a Pandemic. Jeff Nott started by highlighting their customer projects; George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and […]
Norfolk and Norwich starts first phase of digital histopathology service
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) NHS FT has started a new programme to establish a digital histopathology service, which will help to improve cancer care. The trust is introducing new systems to track specimens, digitise slides and enable clinicians to analyse and report cases digitally. Following support of over £700,000 from […]
HTN Trends Series: How has healthcare responded to recent challenges?
As part of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, we look at how individuals and healthcare teams have responded to the challenges of the past three months. As we transition out of lockdown from an immensely difficult past few months, we feel it is time to reflect […]
