NHS Digital has updated the Summary Care Record screen with national standard clinical terms specifically relating to COVID-19. Five of the SNOMED CT commonly used terms for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases are signposted by a yellow message box when viewing the Summary Care Record screen. The information is also made […]
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Imprivata supports virtual visits with free software
Imprivata has launched a free offering to support healthcare providers with virtual patient visits and communication during COVID-19. The software, GroundControl, has been made available to support interactions between patients, clinicians and close relatives through mobile devices. The tool is being used to support remote communication with care providers, virtual patient visits […]
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day Three
On the third day of HTN Digital Week June 2020 we hosted five live sessions. The first session we were joined by Alfresco discussing Content Services for the NHS, Delivering Positive Patient Outcomes in a Pandemic. Jeff Nott started by highlighting their customer projects; George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and […]
Norfolk and Norwich starts first phase of digital histopathology service
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) NHS FT has started a new programme to establish a digital histopathology service, which will help to improve cancer care. The trust is introducing new systems to track specimens, digitise slides and enable clinicians to analyse and report cases digitally. Following support of over £700,000 from […]
HTN Trends Series: How has healthcare responded to recent challenges?
As part of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, we look at how individuals and healthcare teams have responded to the challenges of the past three months. As we transition out of lockdown from an immensely difficult past few months, we feel it is time to reflect […]
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day Two
On the back of a hugely successful day one, where we saw the largest engagement through HTN to date, we commenced day two with Julie Jones, Client Relationship Manager and Caroline Palmer, Digital Development Clinical Lead at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, on Using Digital Technology to Improve Service Access. The […]
Interview Series: Cleveland Henry, Director of Cloud, UKCloud Health
In our latest edition in our Interview Series, we spoke with Cleveland Henry, Director of Cloud at UKCloud Health. UKCloud Health are helping advance digital maturity across Health and Care in the UK through utilising cloud technology. Cleveland starts by telling us about his beginnings in health technology and how […]
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day One
Today we were delighted to open HTN Digital Week June 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions and Alfresco, where we saw five insightful and detailed presentations. In this article we have curated what we think were the key pieces of information from each live webinar. We would like to say a […]
NHS strikes deal for Microsoft 365 digital tools
NHSX and NHS Digital have agreed a deal with Microsoft that will see Microsoft 365 digital tools be deployed across the NHS. The deal means NHS organisations will have access to Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams which was made available for free in March for 3 months. It builds on […]
Feature: digitising records during Covid
In April we covered the news of an independent document sharing platform that was launched by CCube Solutions to support providers and health professionals access information during the COVID-19 crisis. The company released a cloud-based platform for healthcare teams to be able to access the information they need, from anywhere, […]
