Imprivata® has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed Imprivata OneSign® Single Sign-On, Imprivata Medical Device Access and Imprivata Authentication Management® platform to deliver real-time patient data to inform clinical decisions and streamline system access without weakening secure practices. The combined solution enables clinicians to securely access the Welch […]
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HTN 100: Innovative treatment for depression and MYHEALTH@QEHB
HTN 100 is a 100 word challenge to help share health tech projects and learnings. In 100 words we want to hear about the technology you are using, the benefits, successes and tips. HTN 100 will be published every Friday! To participate email news@thehtn.co.uk. Innovative treatment for depression Alex O’Neill-Kerr, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS […]
150 trusts switch to e-referral service
NHS Digital has announced a total of 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have made the move to sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments through the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) and managed to beat the 1 October deadline to fully move to e-RS. Trusts that have already […]
Revealed: NHS trusts not discouraging WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other consumer apps
A new research report from CommonTime has discovered the majority of NHS acute trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools. The report highlighted that important steps to prevent staff sharing sensitive information via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other consumer applications were not being taken following responses from […]
AHSN funds a regional Health Information Exchange for the next two years
The Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria, working with its partners at Connected Health Cities, have agreed to fund a regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the next two years. The investment, worth £800K over the next two years, provides a more certain future for […]
RCP calls for doctors to embrace AI, but make sure it works for patients
In new recommendations for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to support doctors, the RCP has called on the medical profession to embrace the technology, but to make sure that it works for patients. The recommendations follow a roundtable event hosted by the RCP on 31 July 2018, at which experts […]
Next-generation robot revealed to the world for the first time
CMR Surgical has unveiled its surgical robotic system, designed to meet the complex requirements of minimal access surgery, Versius has been created and built by the CMR Surgical team in Cambridge. Versius resets expectations of robotic surgery by providing a versatile system that is portable, transportable and affordable. This is […]
HTN Feature: Paper free at the point of care
As we edge closer and closer to 2020, a target for the NHS to be paperless that was set in the recent Five Year Forward View, we spoke with industry expects to find out about the challenges, progress and some of the solutions available to help organisations achieve this target. In […]
New support for HSLI funding announced by health integration experts
New support by health and social IT integration experts ReStart Consulting, has been announced to support Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) shape their pressing detailed plans for Health System Led Investment (HSLI) funding. Applications for a share of the £412.5m funding pot fall under extremely tight timescales, with STPs required […]
Setting care transfers on FHIR
From October, NHS hospitals are expected to use the new Transfer of Care standard to compile discharge summaries and clinic letters for GPs. NHS Digital has said these will be sent using FHIR messages directly into GP systems. Orion Health experts Dr David Hay and Anne O’Hanlon explain what this […]
