Cannock Chase CCG has rolled out a digital heart monitor scheme to 151 GP surgeries across the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent area. The portable electrocardiogram (ECG) devices were piloted in 2019 across 18 GP practices in East Staffordshire, designed to help detect irregular heart rhythms that can lead to blood clots and strokes. […]
Month: March 2022
Interview Series: Professor Anthony Rowbottom, Lancashire and South Cumbria HCP
Interview Series: Professor Anthony Rowbottom, Lancashire and South Cumbria HCP As HTN continues to focus on Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), and how technologies will play their part in shaping services and collaboration, we spoke to the Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership (HCP) to find out more about its digital […]
Black Country and West Birmingham ICS set for shared care record
Black Country and West Birmingham ICS is set to introduce its shared care record working with Graphnet Health. The ICS has partnered with Graphnet to deliver the shared record across Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell and West Birmingham, to cover 1.5 million residents across the area. Once the project is complete, […]
Irish private hospital network selects EHR
Mater Private Network, a private hospital business in Ireland, has signed a deal with MEDITECH to implement its electronic health record (EHR). The system will be introduced to replace a paper-based process and a number of systems used across its specialties and locations, the company said. As part of the […]
Lantum raises £11m to support growth plans
Lantum has raised £11.4 million ($15m) in funding led by Finch Capital and other participants to help accelerate the company’s growth plans. Specialising in workforce management, the company’s platform is now used by over 30,000 clinical and non-clinical staff, and 50% of GP practices in England. Investors in the over-subscribed […]
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire introduces new EPR programme
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has shared a video to introduce and launch its new electronic patient record (EPR) programme. To introduce the importance of the new system – which is to go live in Spring 2023 – and the value of the changes it will bring to UHCW, Professor […]
Social Value Model to be adopted in all procurements
From 1st April 2022, all NHS providers will be required to adopt the Government’s Social Value Model and include a minimum of 10% weighting on net zero and social value into tenders, the NHS Procurement Transformation team within NHS England and Improvement has stated. This month, new guidance has been published […]
Video: exploring the digitisation of Lloyd George records
At our recent Digital Primary Care conference we were joined by Vijay Magon, Managing Director of CCube Solutions, for a session to discuss the case and options for managing the digitisation of Lloyd George records. With over 20 years of experience in the industry and with 98 percent of their work […]
Video: Digital Cloud Communications in general practice
At our HTN Digital Primary Care Conference in early March, the team from X-on discussed the impact of digital cloud communications in general practice – a very timely topic following a recent NHS England announcement that focuses on the priority of migrating off practice legacy phone systems over the coming […]
The Christie selects software engineering partner
The Christie NHS FT has partnered with Aire Logic to utilise the company’s software engineering, dev-ops and architecture expertise services, as part of a £1.6m deal. The partnership will support the trust to modernise its in-house electronic health record (EHR), taking an approach to ‘separate the data layer’, that aligns […]
