By Niamh McKenna, Chief Information Officer, NHS Resolution As a Board Member at Skills for Health, I was thrilled to host their recent digital focussed event, ‘2020: A Catalyst for Rapid NHS Digital Transformation’. Joining panellists from NHS England & Improvement, Health Education England, and Microsoft, we looked to dissect […]
Month: November 2020
One digital front door; revitalise your weight loss programme with ShapeUp4Life
By Solutions 4 Health The association between excess weight and poor outcomes with COVID-19 has led to even greater pressure on public health organisations to deliver successful weight loss programmes; ShapeUp4Life presents an effective solution to this long-standing problem, and now offers digital programmes to support services. The well-established relationship […]
Somerset NHS deploys quality and compliance software
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a software platform from Radar Healthcare to help with quality, compliance and risk management. The tool brings together operational and regulatory processes to help identify live incidents, mitigate risks and use real-time information to support safety. In April 2020, Somerset Partnership merged with […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ picks Restart for technical integrations
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has chosen ReStart to provide technical consulting, managed services and integration solutions. The trust will use the solution from Restart to migrate over 170 interfaces from a previous solution to InterSystems’ Health Connect. ReStart has also been contracted to provide 24hr managed services […]
NHS to pilot blood test to detect cancers
A blood test to detect more than 50 types of cancers will be piloted from mid-2021 across the NHS. The Galleri blood test, developed by GRAIL, is to be tested on 165,000 people, and if proven successful will be rolled-out more widely to help identify cancers earlier. The test, which checks […]
NHSX to develop new Data Strategy for Health and Social Care
NHSX is to launch and implement a Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, as part of measures announced by Matt Hancock this week to streamline processes and reduce excess bureaucracy. The new report ‘Busting bureaucracy: empowering frontline staff by reducing excess bureaucracy in the health and care system‘, sets […]
CliniSys and Software Testing Solutions partner to automate LIMS software testing
A new partnership between CliniSys and Software Testing Solutions has been announced to support automated software testing of laboratory management and ordering services. The partnership will support pathology labs introduce automated testing for the clinical laboratory, and help system deployments, software upgrades and patches be delivered and implemented into a live environment […]
Coventry and Warwickshire licences anonymised ophthalmology patient data
Artificial intelligence and health data company, RAIR Health, has signed a deal with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust to access anonymised patient data in the field of ophthalmology. The company focuses on the development of proprietary insights from ophthalmic data and images, and has signed a non-exclusive data license […]
Superdrug launches mental health service app
Superdrug has launched a new mental health consultation app for people to start their journey to the right mental health support. Through the app, called MindCare, a user can speak with a doctor confidentially, to discuss their mental health and work towards a diagnosis to guide them to the relevant support. […]
Nuffield Health commits to cloud-first approach
Nuffield Health is working with managed services provider, Node4, to move to a cloud-first infrastructure. The healthcare charity is replacing its legacy infrastructure with a migration to Microsoft Azure cloud and DevOps Managed Services from Node4. Paul Bryce, Chief Commercial Officer at Node4, said: “Now more than ever, organisations like Nuffield Health […]
