NHS Digital has established an additional effective and secure system to deliver essential cyber security updates across the whole NHS. During major security incidents, CareCERT bulletins and updates can now be sent out using short message service (SMS) alerts, following a successful pilot. Contacts in Acute, Ambulance and Mental Health Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Commissioning Support Units can receive the alerts through this additional channel. SMS will be used […]
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Interview Series: Les Manley, Director of ICT, Kent and Medway NHS
Over the next few weeks we aim to interview health tech leaders from across the market. First we caught up with Les Manley, Director of ICT at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. What technology projects are you working on at the moment? Our major projects this […]
Digital step forward for maternity services
Maternity services at Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals are set for an exciting change with the launch of a new electronic medical record system known as BadgerNet. This will replace the traditional folder of handheld notes used by pregnant women and mean everything is securely stored electronically and available at the […]
Omnicell launch new automated inventory management system
Omnicell has launched a new automated inventory management system to process hospital supplies. The new software builds upon Omnicell’s already successful open system and patient costing solutions and gives Trust’s a live dashboard of their entire supplies situation across all their sites. The data and intelligence can be accessed via […]
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT paperless clinical documentation
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTH) has successfully transitioned to a paperless environment in its critical care units, where complex workflows and heavy documentation requirements abound. A team at LTH was tasked to determine how the extensive documentation requirements would be handled in the EPR. Among many features, the […]
West of Scotland creates regional portal
Scottish health boards covering a population of 2.2 million people are able to share patient information now that a two-year project to create a regional portal has been completed. Five West of Scotland health boards are covered by the project to link their Orion Health portals, with NHS Dumfries and […]
First NHS Online app is live in the London borough of Bexley
Healthy London Partnership has launched an app – NHS Online – designed to provide accurate, non-urgent medical advice to more than 240,000 Bexley residents, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The app is being piloted in Bexley, south-east London. The Bexley version of the app, NHS Online Bexley, […]
University Hospital Southampton introduces electronic whiteboards to improve patient safety
Staff at Southampton’s teaching hospitals are introducing interactive whiteboards on wards as part of a major digital transformation project. The touchscreen technology displays information taken directly from a patient’s electronic record, including clinical alerts such as existing medical conditions, length of admission and predicted discharge date. It also acts as […]
NHS England leads battle against obesity and Type 2 diabetes
NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK have teamed up with leading companies from the tech sector as the battle against obesity and Type 2 diabetes goes digital. More than 5,000 people are expected to benefit from a pilot project which will see five companies and eight areas of the country […]
Doctor on demand service ZoomDoc announces crowdfunding
ZoomDoc, the new GP on-demand service, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £500,000. Founded by practicing NHS GP, Dr. Kenny Livingstone, ZoomDoc, is a revolutionary healthtech service that allows users to instantly book a GP to arrive at their preferred location within one hour. The app, soft-launched in March […]
