A prior information notice has been published by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System to procure a unified electronic patient record system. Essex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust are currently at the outline business case stage to procure and replace their existing electronic […]
Month: February 2023
South East Coast Ambulance Service opens data platform tender
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has opened a tender for the provision of a patient records data solution. The trust aims to implement an organisation-wide holistic data solution, to encompass all processes related to the primary and secondary use requirements for patient data. Currently, South East Coast […]
Velindre NHS Trust joins WelshPAS
Velindre NHS Trust has successfully gone live with the WelshPAS WelshPAS holds patient identification details and records details of patients’ hospital visits, including waiting list management, medical records, inpatient treatment, outpatient appointments and emergency visits. The implementation of WelshPAS in Velindre NHS Trust forms part of Digital Health and Care Wales’s wider […]
Open Medical partners with Tamer Group to offer digital transformation solutions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Open Medical has partnered with Tamer Group in order to offer digital transformation solutions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), with the aim of supporting KSA on their healthcare transformation journey. Tamer Group is an integrated healthcare and wellness group within Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa. […]
HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Osman Bhatti on patient access to online GP records
At HTN Now: Digital Primary Care, we welcomed Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer at North-East London ICB. Osman joined us to discuss the debate around patient access to online GP records, with focus on what is happening, how practices should prepare, and how his own ICB […]
CQC partners with Microsoft for data platform
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has partnered with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and a Microsoft Azure data platform. By introducing the data platform CQC aims to “enable the CQC team to focus on driving improvements for the providers it assesses” and help the organisation become more […]
News in Brief: NHS Transformation Directorate and Digital Social Care develop e-learning, proton beam therapy trial launches, Oxford Hospitals opens imaging service and more
It’s time for another news in brief and as always there has been plenty happening in the health tech community… NHS Transformation Directorate and Digital Social Care create training for information sharing NHS Transformation Directorate has been working alongside Digital Social Care in developing new e-learning sessions to help social […]
HTN Now: Dr Penny Kechagioglou on building the clinical informatics team of the future
At HTN Now: January, we were joined by Dr Penny Kechagioglou, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, for a presentation on building the clinical informatics team of the future. To begin, Penny said: “One thing I have learned is that […]
Health Education England shares global digital projects tackling health issues
Health Education England has shared some of its global projects tackling health issues with technology. In this article, Richard Price, Global Health Education Technologies Advisor at Health Education explains. The importance of global collaboration in tackling health issues has been brought into sharp focus in the past two years. In […]
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear creates Application Support Hub to assist diversity in recruitment
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) has developed a new online Application Support Hub, with the aim of supporting candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds through their recruitment process. An internal report found that white applicants are more likely to be appointed than candidates from ethnic […]
