A digital self-management system to support people who need help remembering things, making decisions, planning, or managing anxiety has been awarded £800,000 in funding. Funded by NHS England & NHS Improvement, Brain in Hand has won a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare award to support digital services for autistic people, […]
Month: November 2020
Hull University Teaching deploys DXC Technology’s mobile app
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed DXC Technology’s Clinical Aide app to provide staff with mobile access to its electronic patient record. The app provides access to a patient’s allergies, problems, observations, medication, results and other documented information, and is supporting healthcare teams at the hospital access patient records in […]
In Focus: HTN Awards 2020 Part Two
In this article we cover the projects that were announced as highly commended in the Health Tech Awards 2020. HTN would like to say a huge congratulations to everyone involved! If you missed the evening, you can watch the video announcements here. We would love to hear your thoughts on the awards […]
Video: Transforming to a paper-light environment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals
For HTN Now November we hosted a session with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to explore their journey to digitise patient records. In the session we hear about the implementation and lessons learned from their programme to become paper-light, and we also hear about the digital strategy and plans for […]
PRSB publishes report on digital lessons learned from the pandemic
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a new report on lessons learned from the pandemic to support the future of digital change in health and care. Following a consultation process with 100 of its members, PRSB has published the report examining the digital transformation of services during the pandemic and […]
£16m funding for trusts to introduce digital prescribing
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced 16 NHS trusts across England will receive a share of £16 million to introduce electronic prescribing. The funding is being introduced to help trusts replace paper-based systems, with an aim to support the entire NHS become digital for prescribing by 2024. […]
Ideal Health extends partnership with HIMSS for digital maturity models
Ideal Health, a digital consultancy specialising in healthcare, has extended its partnership with HIMSS for three years to support organisations assess and prioritise digital maturity. Phil Sinclair, Consulting Director and HIMSS Lead at Ideal Health Consultants, said: “In the past year, Ideal has been an extremely active HIMSS Certified Organisation in […]
Queen Mary University launch new remote monitoring app project
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London are launching a new project with healthtech startup Living With, aiming to revolutionise the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. The project will develop an AI driven product to help to optimise treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients, based on health data they have submitted via Living With’s […]
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS FT goes live with TPP SystmOne
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS FT has gone live with a new electronic patient record from TPP as part of its digital transformation strategy. The trust worked with Channel 3 consulting to deliver a remote implementation plan, with the system recently going live across children’s services. The implementation was delivered through 223 virtual […]
Leicester’s Hospitals live with mobile closed-loop EPMA
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has gone live with mobile closed-loop electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) at Leicester General Hospital. Working with software supplier Nervecentre, the EPMA programme is part of their electronic patient record journey to deliver a mobile first digital patient record system. The new EPMA module […]
