A new standard to improve information sharing between community pharmacies and GP practices is now complete, the Professional Record Standards Body has announced. The new standard of a two-part standard, defines the information shared in a standardised way so that information can be shared between different systems more easily. NHS […]
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TPP achieves GP Connect full roll out approval
TPP has achieved full roll-out approval for Access Record: HTML capability as part of NHS Digital’s GP Connect programme. The programme ensures that staff across the NHS can access vital information from GP practice records and TPP’s full roll-out approval marks a major step forward for the national interoperability initiative. […]
Biogen launches app for people living with multiple sclerosis
Biogen has launched a new app, CleoTM as an everyday digital companion to provide information and support for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as their carers, friends and family. The Cleo App provides information, articles and stories for people living with MS and provides a simple way for […]
Payroll App saves over 300 hours per month
MySBSPay was launched by NHS Shared Business Services towards the end of 2018 to give NHS employees their pay information in a more convenient and understandable format, including the facility to ask common pay-related questions using modern Chatbot technology. With almost 400,000 NHS staff paid via the NHS SBS payroll […]
South, Central and West CSU launches Care Navigation Service
A new Care Navigation Service (CNS) has been created by South, Central and West CSU to bring together a number of patient facing services. The service includes Booking Management Support for hospital and patient transport, PALS & Complaints service and Directory of Services (DoS) support. Liam Williams, SCW’s Director of […]
HTN 100: Matt Hancock, Highland Marketing, Experiential HealthTech, EBO.ai and Big White Wall
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. ‘We must tackle the serious ethical challenges of DNA analysis’ Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s says at the Royal Society this week In a speech this week […]
Health projects awarded £23million
Awarded under the Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) programme jointly run by Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council a series of projects have received £23 million of government funding. The projects include software which enables radiologists to diagnose breast cancer more effectively and gene therapy to combat kidney disease. Life Sciences Minister […]
HTN Digital Week Launched
HTN is delighted to launch HTN Digital Week 2019, a week of online events and information sharing, taking place 10th – 14th June 2019 for the healthcare community. Utilising digital channels HTN Digital Week will provide everyone with an opportunity to share and collaborate on digital health. The Week includes live […]
Doctolib raises €150 million
Doctolib, a Franco-German company, founded in 2013 has raised €150 million of funding from investors, valuing the company at over €1 billion. Doctolib allows patients to find nearby healthcare professionals, book / manage appointments online 24/7, have remote medical consultations via video and receive a digital prescription in their online […]
GDE Salford Royal goes paperless with anaesthetic system
The anaesthetics department at Salford Royal is going digital, following the recent installation of GE Healthcare’s Centricity™ High Acuity Anaesthesia (CHA-A) Information Management Solution – known by clinicians as ‘CHAAS’. Salford Royal, a Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) organisation, is utilising the system to automatically collect data from medical devices at each stage […]
