A new app, Hospify has launched to support real-time messaging between clinicians, support staff and patients. Until now, use of WhatsApp has been rife in healthcare – despite the fact that the consumer app isn’t designed to meet strict patient data protection requirements. Its popularity is due to the convenience of […]
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More organisations connect to Health and Social Care Network
The first primary care provider and third sector organisation have successfully connected to the new Health and Social Care Network (HSCN). Devon Doctors, which provides primary care across the county, and Earl Mountbatten Hospice on the Isle of Wight have successfully joined the HSCN in the past month. HSCN has […]
Virtualstock chosen by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH), a Shelford Group Trust, is the latest in a line of leading Trusts that have chosen to use the innovative technology platform from Virtualstock. Andrea Smith, Director of Procurement at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals said, “With the NHS procurement landscape changing significantly we needed […]
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals streamlines its medication ordering
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTH) has implemented an electronic prescription and medicine administration solution, with the aim to eliminate medication errors altogether. The solution has been successfully deployed and yielding positive results. Following its analysis of existing paper-based medication workflows and processes, LTH’s Electronic Prescription and Medicine Administration […]
Health Enterprise East launches Medovate to boost NHS medtech innovation
NHS Innovation Hub Health Enterprise East (HEE) has launched a separate medtech innovation development company called Medovate Ltd to boost the financial and technical support available to NHS medtech innovators. Backed by £9 million of investment capital from NVM Private Equity and a private US investor, Medovate is the first […]
Digital agency builds innovative dementia app for NHS Education for Scotland
Connect has designed & built a mobile app for NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to help bring cognitive rehabilitation to the fore of clinicians’ minds when working with people in the early stages of dementia. The ‘Cognitive Rehab in Dementia’ app, which is the first of its kind in Scotland, […]
New technology framework provides innovative patient-centred care at best value
A new framework agreement that enables health and social care providers to access cutting-edge technology to support direct patient care has been launched by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS). The Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) framework is one of the first of its kind for the public sector and […]
Opinion piece: Defusing healthcare’s data security ‘timebomb’
By Bill Mann, SVP of products and chief product officer, Centrify According to the National Audit Office (NAO), the NHS could have prevented the WannaCry ransomware attack that led to the cancellation of at least 6,900 appointments. The report found it had failed to follow cybersecurity recommendations made in 2014, […]
Surgeon carries out first operations using new “intuitive” surgical robot
Mr Sri Kadirkamanathan, consultant upper GI surgeon at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, has carried out his first operations using the new “intuitive” surgical robot, the da Vinci Xi. The patients were two women in their 20s who suffer from gastroparesis. This condition led to them being unable to […]
British Skin Foundation goes digital
The British Skin Foundation has formed a partnership with leading skin checking app Miiskin – in an initiative to promote public health skin cancer awareness and digital self-tracking. The partnership will focus on public health education, with the British Skin Foundation also set to receive support in direct fundraising campaigns […]
