View the optimising patient records in the NHS white paper here > “These are changing times for NHS Trusts, but one challenge has remained consistent: how to best optimise the patient record experience,” Stefan Chetty, Director of Public Sector, Restore Records Management, highlights. Restore Records Management has published a white […]
Month: February 2024
Study suggests linking whole genome sequencing and clinical data could help personalise cancer care
A team of researchers have identified the benefits of linking whole genome sequencing data to real-world clinical data, to identify changes in cancer DNA that “may be relevant for an individual patient’s care”, potentially helping in the delivery of precision cancer care. The study, published in Nature Medicine, saw analysis of […]
Virtual reality used to support sepsis identification at Great Western Hospitals
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared how virtual reality (VR) technology is being utilised to help staff and students identify signs of sepsis, with the VR exposing users to a series of immersive simulations relating to sepsis, asthma and anaphylaxis which the trust says is ‘helping to upskill” […]
NHSE board explores digital portfolio with focus on FDP, primary care, NHS App and more
NHS England’s board met 1 February 2024 with progress around current digital programmes as a topic of discussion; key takeaways include a need to focus public communication on the Federated Data Platform around existing case studies and benefits; a reported rise in AI decision support tools from five percent in […]
Cloud services playing significant role in Microsoft’s reported $62 billion revenue
Microsoft has reported an overall revenue of $62.0 billion in the last quarter of 2023, an increase of 18 percent in comparison to the same quarter of the previous year, with Microsoft Cloud revenue contributing more than half of this figure at $33.7 billion – an increase of 24 percent […]
EMIS announces active rollout to begin for EMIS-X functionality
EMIS has announced the start of an “active roll out” of its cloud-based platform EMIS-X, marking what EMIS is calling the first step on a larger journey to migrate all services and software to the cloud. The company noted that functionality will be “added gradually” and practices can “adopt new features […]
2024-2030 strategy from Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board focuses on data-driven decision-making
A new health and wellbeing strategy spanning 2024-2030 has been published by Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board, highlighting digital and data as key enablers and pledging to “improve the extent, quality, and accessibility of digital infrastructure and more effectively generate insight from data to inform decision making.” The partnership initiative […]
