A major NHS England funded study is expected to almost halve the number of invasive procedures by 2020 by improving the accuracy of home-testing kits that detect bowel cancer from invisible amounts of blood. This could mean more than 100,000 NHS patients in England avoid the need for uncomfortable colonoscopies […]
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Welsh Government has announced £5.5 million for digital priorities in Welsh NHS
The £5.5 million funding will be targeted at improving access to information and introducing new ways of delivering care with digital technologies set out in the 2015 Informed Health and Care strategy. Welsh Government has worked with a collaboration of NHS organisations including the NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) to […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital piloting wireless environmental sensors in intensive care units
CW+, the charity for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has announced a new partnership with Drayson Technologies to launch the first pilot of wireless environmental sensors in the intensive care units at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. This latest project, coordinated by Dr. Lawrence Petalidis, Head of Innovation and […]
Digital tool to support better care for the vulnerable
An online frailty calculator developed by academics at The University of Nottingham will help GPs to identify their most vulnerable older patients for enhanced care. The QFrailty calculator combines complex information about a patient’s life expectancy and their risk of unplanned hospital admission over the coming 12 months. The QFrailty […]
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands CSU secures business intelligence contract
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands (GEM) Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) has been appointed to provide business intelligence services on behalf of the Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA). The contract, which spans three years, will begin on 1 October 2017. The solution includes a new clinical measures data collection system which […]
Lexacom secures multiple contracts at CCGs and Federations
Lexacom has recently secured new contracts from seven clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and a number of GP clusters and federations looking to benefit from digital dictation and document creation software. GPs rely on dictation systems to transfer their clinical expertise to paper as quickly and efficiently as possible. The advent […]
Health websites reducing visits to doctors in people with chronic health conditions
People are going to their doctors less as a direct result of information they get online, a new study has revealed. The report finds that 27% of people with chronic health conditions went to the doctor less because of information they got from a website, and 41% of people cited […]
Intouch with Health announces partnership to help improve efficiency of NHS staff scheduling
Hospital patient flow management specialist Intouch with Health has partnered with SISQUAL, a global leading provider of workforce management (WFM) solutions, to bring a holistic and fully integrated solution to solve critical and complex workforce issues facing the NHS in the UK. Intouch will add SISQUAL’s digital staff planning solution […]
Healthera announces Innovate UK £1m collaboration
Healthera has announced the formation of a consortium with Cegedim Rx, the largest provider of pharmacy software in the UK market. The consortium has entered a £1 million, 18-month collaborative agreement, co-funded by Innovate UK, focused on researching and developing a connected digital solution for patients and pharmacies.The purpose of […]
Summary Care Record now accessed every 5 seconds
Delivering a keynote speech at the UK Health Show in London, NHS Digital executive director Eve Roodhouse talks about the progress in use of SCRs: “Every five seconds a clinician accesses an electronic Summary Care Record (SCR). This is important information taken from a patient’s GP medical records, which can […]
