Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has opened an opportunity to procure a patient engagement portal. Through an opportunity notice, the trust highlights plans to contract a “digital person held record that can be shared” and “will take or exchange data from the patient portal with EPR through bi-directional […]
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South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust shares EPR plans
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland has shared plans to go live with their electronic patient record programme, encompass, in November this year. The trust has been sharing information and building momentum with regards to the the EPR launch via their Twitter account. In one such […]
£150 million contract for national framework agreement around legacy information and management solutions
A £150 million contract has been awarded to six suppliers following Commercial Procurement Service’s launch of a new framework agreement, designed to allow NHS trusts to procure legacy information and management solutions. Answer Digital, BridgeHead Software Limited, E.Novation UK Ltd, Insight Direct (UK) Ltd, Nautilus Consulting Limited and SynApps Solutions […]
Liverpool Women’s electronic patient record goes live
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new electronic patient record system over the weekend. The trust has moved to the MEDITECH Expanse EPR, 27 years on since they first went live with MEDITECH Magic. Matt Connor, chief information officer at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, shared […]
Cambridge University Hospitals highlight AI tool for preparing for scans
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has highlighted the impact of an artificial intelligence tool, developed at Addenbrooke’s, in reducing the amount of preparation time for radiotherapy treatment. The solution, OSAIRIS, is being used at Addenbrooke’s for prostate and head and neck cancers, and is said to “significantly reduce the amount of time […]
Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel and Dr Penny Kechagioglou launch integrative oncology app
Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel, an integrative medicine physician and Dr Penny Kechagioglou, consultant clinical oncologist, have launched an integrative oncology app and website, which is free at the point of use for all adult cancer patients globally. The Oncio App – Integrative Oncology in action – is a free app available to […]
£10 million digital health check market engagement launches
A market engagement exercise has launched for the new Digital NHS Health Check service announced by the government last week. The DHSC is looking to develop a digital version of the NHS Health Check, to provide users with more choice about where and when to have a check. It aims […]
Train, retain, reform – NHS England’s Workforce Plan published
NHS England has published the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, to outline measures to address the current 112,000 staffing shortfall, and to highlight how it will support staff retention, increase education and training, and capitalise on technology to support reforms. The plan sets out an ambition that by 2036/37 – with retention […]
NHS England and Microsoft agree new deal
NHS England and Microsoft have agreed a five-year deal to provide all NHS organisations with access to Microsoft 365 productivity tools. It means all NHS staff will be able to use Microsoft 365 apps, such as Office 365, with the deal also including Microsoft security solutions, providing capabilities for threat protection, data governance […]
Scottish health tech start up signs deals with NHS Highland and NHS Forth Valley
Infix Support, a health tech start-up based in Scotland, has signed contracts with NHS Highland and NHS Forth Valley to implement its software. Founded by consultant anaesthetist Dr Matthew Freer in 2019, the software is said to improve operating theatre efficiency and support waiting list management through its virtual portal. […]
