A health tech company, PainChek, has launched its pain assessment app in the UK. The tool uses facial analysis technology to support care workers and clinicians identify and manage pain in dementia and cognitively impaired patients who struggle to communicate. Using a phone, facial indicators of pain are detected, and […]
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Liaison Group acquires stake in task management platform
Liaison Group have invested in task management platform, Infinity Health, for an undisclosed amount. The company has taken an minority stake in Infinity Health, who last year were recognised in the HTN Awards 2020, for winning the Partnership of the Year category. The company supported London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust […]
Hyland acquires robotic process automation provider Another Monday
Hyland, an information management company, has acquired Another Monday, a Germany-based robotic process automation (RPA) software developer. The company supports over 19,000 organisations across the world manage their content digitally. One of their customers in the UK is Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, who adopted the OnBase […]
Interview Series: Constantin Jabarin and James Hodgin, Allscripts
In our latest interview, we speak to Dr Constantin Jabarin, chief clinical information officer, EMEA and James Hodgin, solution director, EMEA from Allscripts, the company behind the Sunrise Acute Care electronic patient record and the dbMotion information sharing platform. We talk about how the solutions have been supporting The Dudley […]
Blackpool Teaching signs with CCube Solutions to digitise records
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £1.2 million contact with CCube Solutions to transform the way patient records are stored. The trust has partnered with the company to adopt its Electronic Document & Records Management System which has proven successful at other trusts. The trust said “the […]
Healthcare Gateway supports OneLondon LHCRE
As part of the OneLondon Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) programme, the MIG from Healthcare Gateway, has been expanded to support healthcare teams access information on vulnerable patients with COVID-19 symptoms. Urgent care staff across London can now access around 8 million GP records, following an initiative to expand the […]
Industry View: Healthcare experts react to the NHS clinical communication tools contract
NHSX last month launched its Clinical Communications Procurement Framework and announced the 25 suppliers that were successful. The framework was launched to help organisations remove pagers and quickly adopt clinical facing communication and task management tools that have been through an NHSX assessment process. HTN asked the industry and some of the […]
Research highlights digital therapeutic app helps insomnia and depressive symptoms
New research published today in the Journal of Sleep Research has highlighted positive effects of Sleepio a digital therapeutic programme. Big Health, the company behind the programme, has announced the results of the study to highlight positive effects of their digital sleep improvement programme to make improvements in depressive symptoms. The study examined […]
Video: Starting out as a new nurse information officer
As part of HTN Digital Week June 2020, we welcomed Helen McGuire and Ainhoa Arjona, to present their experience of their new role as Assistant Nursing Information Officers (ANIO) at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The ANIO role is to improve nursing practice through technology to optimise […]
Information sharing platform roll-out accelerated to support clinicians
An information sharing platform has been deployed across Dudley months ahead of a planned go live. The Allscripts dbMotion platform, was due to be deployed this summer, following testing and a proof of concept with local GPs. To support clinical teams access vital information, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust […]
