BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced the STS AG Hospital in Thun, Switzerland has introduced a fully automated hospital wide prescription medicines supply chain, enabling, safe, secure, timely and efficient delivery of patients’ medicines from the central pharmacy to the ward or care […]
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Trafford CCG selects Lexacom 3 as their document creation system of choice
Lexacom, the provider of digital dictation and speech recognition, has been chosen to roll out Lexacom 3 to Trafford GP Practices. 29 Practices will be using Lexacom 3, enabling them to make referrals, create documents and record clinical notes more accurately and efficiently. Before Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) made […]
Patient portals: Delivering demonstrable value through digital transformation
The ability for patients to access and interact with their health and care information are central themes running through the Five Year Forward View and Personalised Health and Care 2020. The ideal of patient empowerment and collaborative working are aspirations for every Sustainability and Transformation Programme. Yet the clear return […]
Liverpool Women’s to showcase patient experience transformation in Middle East
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust will showcase how the introduction of self-service technology to patients and clinicians in its outpatient settings has improved patient experience and delivered financial savings at the 1st GCC Patient Experience Summit in Abu Dhabi in September. The Trust’s Director of Turnaround and Transformation, Jonathan Lofthouse, will […]
GOSH recognised as leaders in hospital bedside technology
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has been singled out by NHS Digital, as part of its ‘e-nursing’ campaign week, for a pioneering new solution which allows its nurses to use mobile devices to electronically observe its patients. Developed by GOSH Clinical Site Practitioner and nurse, Sarah Newcombe, the solution uses […]
Feature: Robin Modak, CEO, Genmed
Money is needed but the procurement process has to radically change to deliver the kind of efficient and cost effective NHS service we all deserve ‘We will put more money into the NHS, but there isn’t a magic money tree we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people […]
Nottingham University Hospitals benefits from Nervecentre
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has significantly improved patient flow through its organisation following the deployment of a Bed Management solution from Nervecentre Software. The mobile tool – which gives clinical and operations teams real-time visibility of the patient journey, bed inventory and system bottlenecks – has been incrementally […]
Nurses becoming e-nurses by using Patientrack to enhance frontline care
Patientrack’s electronic observations technology is helping improve nursing clinical workflow in hospitals across the country, where nursing staff agree that the ease of use of the software, together with the support that Patientrack offers, is empowering nurses of all ages to use technology to help improve the patient experience, and […]
HTN August Newsletter
Here we highlight some of the news we covered in August. If you have a health tech story please get in touch by email to news@thehtn.co.uk Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announces tech innovations Ripple Foundation launches its showcase stack North West trusts take ‘giant leap’ in connecting […]
Agfa HealthCare and Australian Capital Territory Government sign contract for Territory-wide Enterprise Imaging
Agfa HealthCare has announced that it has won a competitive tender for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Directorate. A three-plus-four-year contract has been signed to supply the Enterprise Imaging platform for the territory-wide healthcare network. The project kicked off in July, 2017, with an expected go-live in the first […]
