Digital Health and Care Wales has launched a new framework to support organisations in procuring electronic prescribing and medicines administration solutions. Nervecentre Software, CareFlow Medicines Management and Better have been awarded onto the framework. The programme aims to support hospitals in Wales call-off EPMA solutions on a local basis and […]
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Mid and South Essex ICS explores unified electronic patient record
A prior information notice has been published by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System to procure a unified electronic patient record system. Essex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust are currently at the outline business case stage to procure and replace their existing electronic […]
South East Coast Ambulance Service opens data platform tender
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has opened a tender for the provision of a patient records data solution. The trust aims to implement an organisation-wide holistic data solution, to encompass all processes related to the primary and secondary use requirements for patient data. Currently, South East Coast […]
Velindre NHS Trust joins WelshPAS
Velindre NHS Trust has successfully gone live with the WelshPAS WelshPAS holds patient identification details and records details of patients’ hospital visits, including waiting list management, medical records, inpatient treatment, outpatient appointments and emergency visits. The implementation of WelshPAS in Velindre NHS Trust forms part of Digital Health and Care Wales’s wider […]
Open Medical partners with Tamer Group to offer digital transformation solutions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Open Medical has partnered with Tamer Group in order to offer digital transformation solutions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), with the aim of supporting KSA on their healthcare transformation journey. Tamer Group is an integrated healthcare and wellness group within Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa. […]
CQC partners with Microsoft for data platform
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has partnered with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and a Microsoft Azure data platform. By introducing the data platform CQC aims to “enable the CQC team to focus on driving improvements for the providers it assesses” and help the organisation become more […]
News in Brief: NHS Transformation Directorate and Digital Social Care develop e-learning, proton beam therapy trial launches, Oxford Hospitals opens imaging service and more
It’s time for another news in brief and as always there has been plenty happening in the health tech community… NHS Transformation Directorate and Digital Social Care create training for information sharing NHS Transformation Directorate has been working alongside Digital Social Care in developing new e-learning sessions to help social […]
Health Education England shares global digital projects tackling health issues
Health Education England has shared some of its global projects tackling health issues with technology. In this article, Richard Price, Global Health Education Technologies Advisor at Health Education explains. The importance of global collaboration in tackling health issues has been brought into sharp focus in the past two years. In […]
National Data Guardian public benefit evaluations for data use in research, planning and innovation
The National Data Guardian (NDG), Dr Nicola Byrne, has recently published guidance with an aim to support organisations in carrying out public benefit evaluations when they are planning to use or allow access to data collected during the delivery of care for planning, research and innovation projects. The guidance is delivered in […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ publishes review of IT critical incident
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has published a final report following a series of reviews into an IT critical incident on 19 July when two separate data centres suffered failures. The review collates a series of investigations, covering the trust’s methodology, timeline of events, main findings and recommendations for […]
