In our latest interview, we speak with Alex Whitfield, CEO of Hampshire Hospitals who discussed her unconventional route to becoming a CEO, her trust being the first to conduct Covid-19 testing outside of Public Health England through their microbiology lab, and rounded off with a personal thankyou to her staff […]
Month: November 2020
Video: Sussex Partnership NHS FT digital journey
As part of the HTN Health Tech for the Now Series, we welcomed Beth Lawton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The session shares the digital journey and strategy for the Trust, one of the Global Digital Exemplar Fast Followers. As part of the programme, the […]
Barnsley Hospital and System C develop care planning tool
A new electronic care planning tool developed by System C and Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has now gone live. The care planning module is being used to create care plans for patients on admission and then used and updated at the bedside acting as a ‘living document’. It includes nutrition […]
NHS Digital signs deal to introduce NHS Terminology Server
NHS Digital has signed a deal with DXC Technology and CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, to deliver a central NHS Digital Terminology Server. The Terminology Server will help support data exchange between systems and enable easier integration of local coding systems with national and international coding languages, such as SNOMED-CT and FHIR. […]
Innovate UK funds tech to reduce hidden costs of telephone calls in primary care
Innovate UK has awarded a six-figure grant to cloud telephony specialist X-on to support an app to help eliminate GP practice-patient call costs. The app will mean calls between a patient and their GP are free and in turn reduce the cost to GP practices for outgoing calls by around […]
NHS Digital and PRSB publish new social care standards
New social care standards have been published by NHS Digital and the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) to support how information is recorded and shared across health and social care. Over 1,000 health and care professionals have supported the development of the standards through an open consultation process. The five new […]
Greater Manchester launches app to support recovery of wounds
A new App developed by Healthy.IO has been launched across Greater Manchester to help support the treatment and recovery of wounds. The wound-measuring technology helps to provide an accurate measurement of a wound in two minutes, to help a digital assessment team over time calculate the progress of a wound and understand […]
FHIR standards in healthcare: an interview with Lyniate
In this interview feature, Matt White speaks with John Mitchell, Implementation Consultant at Lyniate, and James Hardacre, Senior Implementation Consultant specialising in Rhapsody by Lyniate, to explore and discuss FHIR standards. Can you briefly take me through the background to FHIR and HL7? James: I used to be heavily focused […]
Video: Royal Colleges 3.0, delivering best practice as code
For HTN Now November we hosted a session with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, focusing on its Digital Child Growth Assessment programme. We welcomed Dr Marcus Baw, GP and Software Developer, Dr Simon Chapman, Paediatrician, King’s College Hospital NHS FT and South London and the Maudsley Hospitals NHS […]
Video: Smart MedTech – Digitalisation of the clinical Interface
On 4th November as part of the HTN Health Tech for the Now series, we welcomed Cliff Kirby, CEO at NeedleSmart. This session focused on an innovative technology to capture data at the clinical interface. Cliff opened: “there is a lack of meaningful data from a physical process to a virtual […]
