IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions have announced a partnership to offer mobile provider-to-provider and provider-to-patient communications to NHS organisations, GP practices and patients. The partnership aims to support NHS organisations move away from outdated technologies and remove paper correspondence within and between organisations and with patients. Shane Tickell, Chief […]
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HTN 100: Concentric, Unmasked, EOS Imaging and Agfa
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. Welsh health tech start up Concentric secures £350k investment Concentric, a platform which supports patients faced with the possibility of surgery to make shared decisions with their […]
NHSX to mandate health tech standards
NHSX has announced it wants to assemble a world-class team of technical experts to help solve some of the biggest technology challenges in health and care. It will soon begin recruiting a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to design and deliver a new Internet-based technical architecture for all of the NHS […]
NHSX names new CEO, Matthew Gould
NHSX, which will be operational from July, has announced its CEO, Matthew Gould, who will join in the summer. He is currently the Government’s Director General for digital and media policy, previously the Government’s Director for cyber security, and a former ambassador to Israel. Matthew Gould said “Our single goal […]
Mental healthcare provider utilises ePMA to save time
Specialist mental healthcare provider St Andrew’s Healthcare has introduced a new electronic prescribing and medicines administration system (ePMA) system from EMIS Health. The provider has seen a 50% drop in prescription-related errors since rolling out the system and a reduction in nursing time spent administering drugs to patients. The system […]
Great North Care Record teams up with Cerner
The Great North Care Record for the North East and North Cumbria has chosen Cerner to connect patient information across the region’s hospitals, mental health services, social care, GPs and community services and ambulance services. This means all services and their staff will have access to the relevant information at hand, […]
£4.8m available to social care for interoperability and data projects
Organisations that provide and commission adult social care services are invited to bid for a share of £4.8m to enable them to roll out their local digital projects on a wider scale. NHS Digital is seeking applications for the Social Care Digital Pathfinders grant open for existing products and services that […]
Interview Series: Stephen Hannan, Clinical Services Director, Optical Express
In our latest Interview Series we spoke with Stephen Hannan, Clinical Services Director at Optical Express. We asked Stephen a few questions to understand further what the NHS Long Term Plan means to the optical sector, the tech revolution and some achievements and challenges for Optical Express. Optical Express first […]
Derby starts deployment of ePMA
Royal Derby Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has started its e-prescribing and medicines administration journey with DXC Technology’s Lorenzo. The initiative is part of the Trust wider digital programme that will better alert doctors to genuine prescribing dangers, electronically link patient information and […]
Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care pilot extended for a year
The Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project has been extended for another year with a extra 1.48 million to be invested. The additional funding takes the total funding to £4.9m for 11 organisations from Liverpool’s hospitals, council, universities and technology SMEs creating new 5G supported health technologies. Rosemary Kay, Liverpool 5G […]
