The Scottish Government’s £42 million Techscaler programme has been extended to support innovators in trialling their solutions with NHS test bed sites. In July 2022, seven tech scaler hubs were announced to support start-ups in Aberdeen, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Stirling. The programme is now extending to provide the innovative […]
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Princess Alexandra Hospital awards £28 million EPR contract
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has awarded a £28 million contract to implement the Cerner electronic patient record system. The 1o-year deal was awarded using the London Procurement Partnership Clinical Digital Solution Framework, and is set to run to February 2033. The programme forms part of the trust’s ambitions to […]
Total Specific Solutions acquires PAS and EPR supplier
Total Specific Solutions has announced the acquisition of patient administration system and electronic patient record supplier, IMS MAXIMS. The move is the first acquisition in Ireland for Total Specific Solutions and becomes the sixth in the UK and Ireland region. A global provider of IT business solutions, Total Specific Solutions consists […]
Hyland to reduce workforce by 20 percent, CEO announces
Bill Priemer, President and CEO at Hyland has announced ‘difficult news’ that the company is reducing by 1,000 employees. In a blog post shared on the Hyland website, the company highlighted 32 years of “extraordinary success and growth”. However, they added, “today we are announcing the hardest change we’ve ever had to […]
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICS to introduce care traffic control centres
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICS has partnered with Faculty to introduce ‘intelligent care traffic control centres’ with an aim to view demand, capacity and predict future need across the ICS. The ICS hopes to improve operational planning, by using a predictive analytics tool from Faculty, that pulls in […]
Latest phase of University Hospitals of Leicester EPR programme goes live
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has deployed Nervecentre’s order comms solution across its three hospitals. Forming part of the trust’s progressive electronic patient record roll-out, the solution is now live supporting clinical workflow and processes, as part of the Nervecentre EPR. The deployment adds to a number of Nervecentre […]
NHSE guidance for system clinical leaders in developing virtual ward services
NHS England has published guidance designed to support ICS clinical leaders in creating and developing virtual ward services. The guidance aims to act a starting point for virtual ward development development and produces core clinical considerations for leaders to take into consideration, in order to achieve a mature virtual ward […]
Digital pharmacy Phlo acquires Truepill
Digital pharmacy company Phlo Technologies has announced the acquisition of the UK branch of US-based healthcare platform Truepill, following Phlo’s announcement last month of £10 million in Series A funding. Phlo has acquired Truepill’s partnerships with several of the UK’s digital health providers, including The Lowdown (contraceptive advice and support […]
Private healthcare activity data sharing consultation opens
NHS England has launched a consultation to change the collection and sharing of private healthcare activity data. The proposal is for NHS England to collect and process private healthcare hospital admitted patient care data and information about NHS funded patients, using common data standards. It means NHS funded and independent […]
Health Tech Awards 2023 are back and bigger than ever!
The Health Tech Awards 2023 sponsored by CCube Solutions are back and bigger than ever! This year we’re joined by almost 200 judges from across the health tech community to analyse and assess the entries to select the winners! In February we announced our first group of judges, which was followed […]
