East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has selected its preferred electronic patient record supplier for EPR programme EmPoweR, which will be designed to bring together inpatient and outpatient data, ePMA, order comms and theatres into a single EPR. Nervecentre has been selected as the preferred supplier, marking the ninth acute trust […]
Author: Amy Archer-Williams
Guy’s and St Thomas’ trials drone service for urgent medical deliveries
Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust is trialling a new service utilising electronic drones to transport urgent blood samples for patients undergoing surgery who are at high risk of complications from bleeding disorders. The service is currently set to run as a six-month operation, formed as a partnership between […]
171 Black Country GP practices update websites to support patient access
NHS Black Country ICB has shared how its digital first primary care team led a GP website improvement programme, supporting all 171 GP practices in the Black Country to update their websites as part of efforts to improve accessibility and ensure that sites are user friendly. The ICB highlights how […]
Ali Parsa launches AI company Quadrivia and personal clinical assistant tool for beta testing
Quadrivia, an AI company set up by Ali Parsa founder of Babylon Health, has launched in beta a personal clinical assistant tool Qu, designed to support clinicians across the “full stack of routine clinical and administrative tasks” as well as patient interactions, continuous monitoring, decision-making and chronic and post-operative care. […]
Barts Health deploys Cynerio’s cyber security platform across all sites
Barts Health NHS Trust has selected Cynerio’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Platform for deployment across all sites, choosing to implement the full suite including network detection and response for healthcare (NDR-H) technology capable of monitoring network traffic and detecting and responding to threats. The NDR-H tech from Cynerio sits within the hospital’s […]
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside report explores how system working can support outcomes for children and young people
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside has commissioned a thought leadership report designed to explore how system working could support better outcomes for children and young people, identifying the role of technology in services and sharing insights such as how 40 percent of children in the region are said to be currently […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals appoints new chief clinical information officer
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed a new chief clinical information officer (CCIO), with Steve Bush taking up the role from next week. The trust reports that Steve brings over 20 years of experience as a consultant in emergency medicine at Leeds, with previous roles including medical director for […]
HTN Now: panel discussions in November and December 2024
The last two months of 2024 are shaping up to be busy at HTN – here’s what we’ve got coming up through our live event series, HTN Now. 19 November, 10am: digital workforce education and training For this panel we will be joined by Dr Hatim Abdulhussein, national clinical lead […]
Scalpel AI raises £3.8m to expand surgical instrument tracking and validation platform
London-based Scalpel AI, combining computer vision and machine learning to identify and track surgical instruments, has raised £3.8 million in a funding round designed to help the company scale its global operations and roll out its technology across the healthcare supply chain. Scalpel AI’s tech generates a digital twin for […]
Proposed mental health plans from Birmingham and Solihull ICB highlight digital as “major vehicle for change”
Birmingham and Solihull ICB has proposed new plans for the region’s Children and Young People Mental Health Transformation Programme, outlining suggested changes to service delivery with the aim of improving access to mental health care and highlighting digital innovation as a “major vehicle for change”. Through the plan, the ICB […]
