This week we held our first international webinar since launching our sister site HTN International, where we were joined by a panel of health tech experts to discuss current digital capabilities, projects, and priorities from country contexts including Spain, Bermuda, and the UK. We welcomed Keltie Jamieson, chief health information […]
Author: Amy Archer-Williams
North Bristol NHS Trust holds ‘green operating day’ including use of tech to minimise carbon footprint
North Bristol NHS Trust has shared insight into a ‘green operating day’ held by the trust’s neurosurgery team at Southmead Hospital which saw a one-day trial run simultaneously across all neurosurgical theatres to explore how sustainably the operating list could be run. As part of their efforts, the team used […]
Interview: “The impact starts with small transformations” Inderpal Kohli, VP and CIO at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey
Over on our sister site HTN International, we shared our interview with Inderpal Kohli, vice president and chief information officer at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey, to hear his insights on digital transformation, projects, priorities and challenges in the digital health space. Inderpal introduced himself by explaining how his career has been […]
Digital Health and Care Wales to move to cloud pathology platform
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is to implement InterSystems’ health information system and electronic medical record TrakCare Lab Enterprise as a fully hosted and managed platform across nine health boards, 13 hospitals and 23 laboratories in Wales, with the aim of improving efficiencies in pathology services and streamlining patient […]
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership launches website for eye health
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has launched a new website focusing on eye health, with the aim of increasing awareness and prevention around eye care and “looking at eye care as a lifetime journey”. My Eye Health brings together information on more than 50 different eye conditions and offers […]
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust awards contract for EPR implementation support
A two-year contract has been awarded to Dakota Integrated Solutions Ltd to support East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust with its Epic EPR implementation by supplying mobile devices, printers and barcode scanners as well as providing training, maintenance and support for data capture hardware and services. The initial […]
Explore HTN International with us, including our first virtual panel discussion on global digital healthcare
Last November we launched our sister site, HTN International (HTNI) – a place to share news, interviews, research and more on health tech from across the globe. Since then, we’ve looked into international health tech from Canada to New Zealand, South Africa to Norway; and now we’re hosting our first […]
Scotland’s Genomic Medicine Strategy 2024-2029 highlights need for “secure, scalable digital infrastructure”
The Scottish Government has published Scotland’s Genomic Medicine Strategy 2024-2029, highlighting plans to develop a genomic medicine service “based on the principles of person-centred care” and better enabling the use of genomic information to support disease prevention and early detection, along with the need for national digital infrastructure. A number of […]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton holds ‘Paper2Pixels’ events to streamline digitisation of paper records
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has highlighted ‘Paper2Pixels’ events which saw staff across the trust helping to identify and streamline more than 1,000 paper-based patient records and forms for the process of digitising, ahead of the trust’s transition to a new EPR. Led by the clinical […]
News in brief: ICS forms single point of access for talking therapies, chatbot supports new parents in Greater Manchester, and more
Here, we take a look at some of the latest health tech news stories to have caught our eye over the last few weeks. App offers support with infant feeding for new parents in Greater Manchester In Greater Manchester, free access to an app offering 24/7 infant feeding support is […]
