Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s digital strategy strategic data themes focus on the four core principles of predict, prepare, prevent and improve, setting out planned actions including providing training for staff on predictive modelling, developing tools so that front-end users can create their own data dashboards; and developing early warning systems […]
Month: February 2024
Legacy information systems: approaches from across the NHS
As part of this week’s focus on legacy information systems, we’re exploring views from NHS professionals on their organisation’s approach. Mark Chester, assistant director of digital services at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, said: “All organisations face challenges with legacy systems and what happens to the […]
Feature: insights and best practice in navigating digital transformation
Content by Kodak Alaris In January, Graham Etherington, solutions sales director at Kodak Alaris participated in a panel discussion with Rob Birkett, CDIO at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), and Dr Paul Wright, GP and deputy clinical director/IT clinical lead at NHS Greater Manchester and CCIO at Manchester […]
Calderdale Council awards £130k contract for digital platform to support family hubs
The borough council of Calderdale has awarded a contract with an estimated value of £130,560 across a 10-year period to Gemstone IT Services, for the provision of an integrated virtual health and wellbeing offer for families. The solution is required to act as “an umbrella first point of contact”, signposting […]
Government shares plans for regulatory work around AI including plans to launch AI risk “single source of truth”
The UK government has shared an update on the proposal to establish a “proportionate and pro-innovation framework for regulating AI” along with wider plans for supporting AI regulation across UK industries, including funding for AI projects and regulators and plans to launch a “single source of truth” on AI risks. […]
Virtual ward and hospital stay compared for length of stay and cost effectiveness
A study published in BMJ Open evaluates the length of stay difference between virtual ward patients and hospital patients along with economic impacts, with key findings including that the use of virtual wards was “clinically effective in terms of survival for patients not needing readmission and allowed for the freeing […]
Feature: “Systems are changing all the time”, BridgeHead Software’s John McCann on tackling legacy systems
We sat down with BridgeHead Software’s vice president of global marketing, John McCann, for a chat on legacy systems – from the different kinds of legacy applications to the challenges they pose and BridgeHead’s solution for tackling those challenges. What are legacy applications and why are they a problem? John […]
SBRI Healthcare awards £4.9m in innovation funding across learning disability and maternity care
SBRI Healthcare, in collaboration with partners including the Health Innovation Network, has awarded almost £5 million in funding for innovations across learning disability and maternity care, with five innovations for maternity care receiving a portion of £2.5 million and a further five innovations awarded a share of £2.4 million for work […]
South West London ICB shares findings and recommendations from digital otoscopy pilot
Findings from a pilot project involving utilisation of a device to perform digital otoscopy have been published by South West London (SWL) ICB, with the report highlighting positive staff and patient responses; nearly 90 percent of patients being seen in less than four weeks; and cost savings of over £250,000 over […]
Re-wiring hospitals, data-sharing and remote monitoring feature in strategy from University Hospitals of Leicester
The latest strategy from University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust lists digital and data as enablers of success with a “new continuous improvement approach” planned to drive large-scale transformation, underpinned by programmes including digital and technology. UHL notes the “positive impact” that digital can have in people’s daily lives […]
