It’s that time of year again – we’re delighted to share the winners of the Health Tech Awards 2023, sponsored by CCube Solutions. Almost 200 judges from across the NHS have read all about the innovative digital health projects and programmes from our finalists and cast their vote. With 15 […]
Year: 2023
Journal examines role of digital fellowships in healthcare transformation
An article published in Nature journal examines the role of digital fellowships in facilitating digital transformation in healthcare systems, with the authors describing participants as “catalysts for future-oriented, resilient, and adaptable workforce in an increasingly digital world”, and recommending increased collaboration and further integration for fellowships and their learnings in […]
HTN Now: Apira on approaches for deploying a mental health EPR
At HTN Now, we were joined by Apira’s founding director Geoff Broome and managing director Alan Brown for a discussion on the deployment of mental health electronic patient records, with particular focus on the choice between two key approaches: ‘get it right first time’ (GIRFT) or ‘land and expand’. Apira […]
NHSE study explores clinician views on use of digital tech in autism assessment pathway
NHS England has published a summary of a study commissioned to explore clinician views on the use of digital technology in the autism assessment pathway, with the results noting an overall positive attitude from clinicians along with several challenges, including a need for training, difficulties in assessing social communication via video, […]
Public Health Wales launches a new digital and data strategy
Public Health Wales (PHW) has launched a new digital and data strategy to enhance health data accessibility, quality, and security, acting as an enabling strategy to deliver its long term public health strategy. The strategy sets out three overarching themes: to build strong foundations, build in alignment and to build […]
HTN Now: NHSE Blueprinting Team and Derbyshire Community Health Services on electronic job planning and rostering
At HTN Now, we welcomed the NHS England Blueprinting Team and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, to talk about optimising their electronic roster and implementing electronic job planning. We were joined by Paul Charnley, digital lead at Healthy Wirral partners and chair of the Digital Blueprinting Programme; Greg […]
Wales awards £1.4m primary care workforce intelligence system contract
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has awarded a contract to procure a primary care workforce intelligence system, worth an estimated £1,144,760. The programme aims to form a single integrated solution to manage primary and community care workforce information, the medical performers list, ophthalmic performers list, dental performers list and all Wales pharmacy database […]
What should be the highest priority in the short term for digital integrated care systems?
For our latest poll as part of our Health Tech Trends series, sponsored by InterSystems, we put the following question to our health tech audience via LinkedIn: what do you think should be the highest priority in the short term for digital integrated care systems? We saw 121 people respond […]
Digital priorities from North East London, Somerset, Nottingham and Northamptonshire integrated care systems
For our latest industry view, we asked four representatives from integrated care systems for their thoughts on the digital priorities in their region – and what they are looking forward to in the future with regards to digital in health. Osman Bhatti, GP and chief clinical information officer at North […]
NHS England October board papers share update on digital in maternity care, genomics and more
NHS England has shared the papers from its latest board meeting [5 October], with discussion highlighting the role of digital, data and technology in a number of key areas including tackling health inequalities in caring for people with learning disabilities and autism, accelerating genomics research and improving safety in maternity […]
