New research from Centrify in a study of 800 senior level executives, including CEOs, Technical Officers and CFOs in the UK and US, has indicated that there is confusion among the C-suite about what constitutes a cybersecurity risk and what needs to be done to prevent it. In the UK, malware […]
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Insignia links Colchester with trusts across Essex and Suffolk
Insignia Medical Systems has deployed its InSight PACS system at Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, providing a single trust and breast screening system for the region for the first time. The successful go-live took place in early December following the migration of over 181 million images within 2.7 million […]
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to launch a new mobile app
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) is to launch a new mobile app helping trainee clinicians take control of their learning experience to become world-class physicians, marking a key milestone in our digital transformation partnership. The app is already empowering busy medics to keep on top of their […]
Great North Care Record accessed 25,000 times a month
The Great North Care Record, a collaboration between the £20m government funded Connected Health Cities programme and local NHS providers, is a new, more efficient way of sharing care information electronically across the region between authorised healthcare practitioners with the patient’s permission. The Record is accessed around 25,000 times every […]
HTN March 2018 Newsletter
In March we announced a new podcast series has been launched to share innovations in primary care. We covered an opinion piece from Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper and Dash: Are you provisioning for the Cloud? We announced 9 new categories in the HTN Awards 2018 including user-led innovation, information and data security and software […]
£10million invested in practices to support eReferral roll-out
A new GP contract, agreed by NHS England, the Government and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee, will take effect from 01 April 2018 and will see an investment of £256.3 million going into the contract for 2018/19, a 3.4% increase overall. This includes £60 million to be paid to […]
Over 500 researchers granted access to the Genomics England Research Environment
Over 500 researchers have been granted access to the Genomics England Research Environment, enabling them to carry out pioneering research on the 100,000 Genomes Project dataset. Genomics England has also adopted the bioinformatics platform Galaxy, providing initial access to students on the MSc in Genomic Medicine course with thousands of […]
Are you provisioning for the Cloud? By Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper and Dash
Over the next few years, the provisioning and adoption of cloud computing in healthcare is likely to increase. We are seeing a shift from almost zero cloud adoption over the last five years to an enormous amount of healthcare and more specifically, NHS organisations migrating their solutions to cloud infrastructure. […]
PRSB new standard to support people with long-term patients
A new standard for sharing information among health and care professionals has been released today from PRSB, that will facilitate better and safer care for people with long-term health and care needs. The digital care and support plan standard will benefit the growing number of people living in the UK with long-term […]
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals deploys MAXIMS
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed IMS MAXIMS technology in its emergency department. Steven Bloor, chief information officer at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, said: “We would not have got through the winter with the system we had in place, so we really pushed to get MAXIMS in when we […]
