Our latest panel focused on developing a digital workforce and digital skills, and featured Jeffrey Wood, deputy director of ICT at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust; Daniel Johnston, senior clinical workflow specialist at Imprivata and registered staff nurse at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, head of […]
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“Getting your physical solution ‘digital ready’ is the key to the age-old dream of a paperless NHS”
By Stefan Chetty, Director of Public Sector Services, Restore Records Management. Getting your physical solution ‘digital ready’ is the key to the age-old dream of a paperless NHS: how hybrid and paperlite solutions can optimise patient record storage The idea of a paperless NHS has been around a long time, […]
What’s happening in digital and data across the North West?
What’s happening in digital and data across the North West? Next up in our feature series exploring digital and data across the different ICS regions, we’re looking to the North West with its three integrated care systems: Cheshire and Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire and South Cumbria. Although the North […]
“We can get a positive loop going sometimes with behavioural change” Dr Gemma Donovan and Dr Sabine Van Der Veer on digital health, behaviour change and Florence
At HTN Now: April, were joined by Dr Gemma Donovan, head of behavioural insights at Generated Health, along with Dr Sabine Van Der Veer, senior lecturer in health informatics from the University of Manchester, for a discussion on the potential and pitfalls of digital health and behaviour change. In particular, […]
Federated Data Platform procurement: what questions should NHSE be asking?
The Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) has published a paper exploring the context and planned future of the Federated Data Platform (FDP) currently undergoing procurement from NHS England. The paper highlights a variety of information around the FDP, including what the platform is expected to look like and a list of […]
Empowering healthcare staff: the key to a successful paperless future
Feature by Radar Healthcare. The healthcare industry has undergone significant changes in recent years, particularly around digital transformation and the move towards a paperless system. England’s health secretary, Sajid Javid, set a goal for 90 percent of NHS trusts to use Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) by December 2023. This target […]
“Digital teams are the cornerstone of building a truly digital organisation” NHS Providers on effectively embedding digital into your trust
A guide to embedding digital in organisations has been developed and shared by NHS Providers and Public Digital as part of the Digital Boards programme, which aims to build board understanding of the potential and implications of the digital agenda, ultimately increasing confidence and capability to harness opportunities. The guide […]
The role of digital in green plans from five integrated care systems
How are integrated care systems going green, and what is the role of digital? Join us as we explore five ICS green plans to explore the digital sustainable priorities and projects underway across the country Somerset ICS Alongside priorities such as leadership and governance, supporting staff to engage with the […]
World Health Organisation to publish online guidance on managing infodemics
In a new blog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights the need for a “systematic approach to monitoring infodemics and developing infodemic insights that are reproducible and evidence-based”. WHO points to the way that the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it an “overwhelming” amount of information, including mis- and dis-information, stating: […]
Digital uptake of the NHS App and online primary care services, in relation to sociodemographic characteristics
A study entitled ‘Quantifying digital health inequality across a national healthcare system’ has been published in Research Square, setting out how the researchers analysed data from 6,356 primary care providers across England to test the association between population characteristics and digital uptake. “Quantifying sociodemographic inequalities within digital health uptake is […]
