Global standards organisation, GS1 UK and NHS Digital have announced a five-year partnership to enable NHS trusts to use GS1 standards starting with the patient wristband and extending to location management using the Global Location Number registry (LocationManager). The technology supports the unique identification of every person, product and every […]
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Robot tech improves the way patients receive medication
Salford Royal has extended the use of PillTime following a successful pilot. The system ensures patients receive the right medication on time, every time. PillTime dispensary, featuring a robot and optical checker, has been set up in the Trust’s pharmacy department. The robot collates different patient medication and dispenses it in individual, […]
HTN Industry View: NHSX to mandate health tech standards
Last week HTN reported on NHSX confirming their intent to mandate the use of internationally-recognised tech and data standards across the NHS to ensure a consistent language of clinical terms to help staff share information, as reported by HTN here. Following our news article, we asked the industry for their views […]
Interview Series: Dr Tanya Pankhurst, University Hospitals Birmingham
In our latest interview we spoke with Dr Tanya Pankhurst, Deputy Director of Digital Healthcare from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). What systems are used at UHB and how advanced are you with technology? Here at UHB we are quite unique, we have a team of programmers and build […]
HTN Health Tech Trends Survey launched
HTN is delighted to bring you the HTN Health Tech Trends Survey 2019 sponsored by InterSystems. The Health Tech Trends Survey provides you with the opportunity to share your views and opinions on health technology. The findings from the survey will be shared with the HTN network through a series […]
Royal Wolverhampton appoints OLM
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has appointed OLM to optimise its 0 – 19 Healthy Child Programme service with new cloud-native technology, ECLIPSE; a case management system to improve and simplify the case recording process. The 0-19 Healthy Child Programme is an integrated service for children, young people and their families […]
Lincolnshire Community partners with Q Doctor
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has announced Lincolnshire residents will gain access to video consultations with healthcare professionals through technology platform Q doctor. The partnership means 735,000 people will now have access to community services across the county, virtually. Following a successful pilot the technology has now been extended […]
Poole Hospital’s ‘virtual’ fracture clinic reduces appointments by 40%
Poole Hospital has gone live with a new virtual fracture clinic using technology from Bluespier. Previously all patients seen at the Trust’s Emergency Departments (ED) with a suspected fracture would have been referred to the hospital fracture clinic. Now, patients in ED have their injury immobilised in a splint or […]
Thousands sign up for online GP service in Birmingham
A partnership between Push Doctor and Urban Health and I3 primary care networks, covering 13 practices and 88,000 patients now enables patients to make a digital appointment with an online GP. A pilot at Halcyon Medical surgery in Central Birmingham has been a roaring success said the partnership, with 34% of […]
Scarborough and York Hospitals picks Patchwork clinical staffing solution
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Patchwork to trial a new clinical staffing solution for their medical workforce. The technology is set to increase bank fill rates, reduce staffing costs and reduce administrative processes with its solution that instantly connects clinicians to vacant bank shifts through an app, enabling Trusts to […]
