County Durham and Darlington NHS FT has eliminated paper hospital referrals from GPs and gone 100% electronic– thanks to a joint initiative with NHS Digital. The news comes as NHS England announces that from October 1 this year, trusts will only be paid for outpatient appointments that are booked electronically. […]
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NHS England invests £3.5m in diabetes education
NHS England has provided a £3.5 million funding boost to support thousands of people with Type 2 diabetes access digital structured education programmes to better manage their condition. NHS England is also to announce that 25% of the diabetes education Transformation Fund can now be used for digital tools. Changing […]
Health Enterprise East expands consulting services for healthcare innovators
Health Enterprise East (HEE) has announced the expansion of its medtech consulting services. The company said the new services aim to provide healthcare innovators and product developers with practical, insightful advice about the market relevant to their innovation and the steps needed to bring their ideas for medical technology products […]
Researchers from University of Edinburgh to assess Global Digital Exemplar programme
The University of Edinburgh, Harvard Medical School, University College London, and NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit will evaluate the NHS Global Digital Exemplar scheme. The group will undertake in-depth investigations into 12 selected sites and conduct a mix of formative and summative evaluation of the GDE […]
Imprivata and SecMaker announce partnership across Sweden and the Nordics
Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company and SecMaker, have announced a strategic technology and reselling partnership to enable healthcare providers in Sweden and the Nordics to swiftly, securely and conveniently access clinical applications and patient information via smartcard based technology. The combined solution, which uses two-factor authentication to increase IT […]
Review announced into training NHS staff to use AI and robotics
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has announced a review into how tens of thousands of NHS staff can be trained to use artificial intelligence and robotics. The review will be led by Dr Eric Topol an expert in cardiology, genetics and digital medicine. Dr Topol […]
One Health Lewisham adopts virtual health assistant to reduce burden on GPs
One Health Lewisham, a federation of all 38 GP surgeries in Lewisham, has signed a two year deal with Sensely and its partner Advanced to deploy the virtual health assistant app, Ask NHS. The solution will enable general practices to better manage patient demand, reducing the burden on and saving […]
South West learns from the Singapore healthcare system
The South West Academic Health Science Network (SW AHSN) recently welcomed a delegation from the Singapore Centre for Healthcare Innovation, based at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. The five visitors were in the South West to talk to health and care staff about their decade-long transformation journey and their […]
Delivering Patient Flow Analytics for Healthcare Organisations by Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash
The NHS is facing ever-rising costs through ageing populations, increased demand whilst needing to adopt new technology in a time that requires significant change. At the same time budgets are constrained and those responsible for the systems that operate healthcare facilities are changing rapidly. Across the healthcare sector, data analytics […]
Plans to strengthen NHS cyber security announced
Department of Health and Social Care has announced a new multi-million pound Microsoft package to ensure NHS systems have the most up-to-date software with the latest security settings. The deal with Microsoft will ensure all health and care organisations are using the latest Windows 10 software with up-to-date security settings to help […]
