A GP in Greater Manchester harnessed the skills of his digital-savvy patients when a power cut brought his morning surgery to a standstill. Dr Amir Hannan, of Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in Greater Manchester, was able to continue consultations by viewing his patients’ medical records on their own smartphone devices, […]
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Kisharon the first organisation to pilot an innovative new app
Kisharon, a specialist provider of education, opportunity and support services to people with learning difficulties, has become the first organisation to pilot Infinity – an innovative new app specifically designed to enable smarter collaboration, information handover, and task management within modern health and care teams. Infinity has been developed by […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announces tech innovations
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been working with the DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator promgramme and CW+ to successfully establish new innovative projects at their hospitals, supporting their digital health innovation and quality improvement strategy. Zoë Penn, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Medical Director said: “The Accelerator has […]
New patient administration system launched
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), which runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has launched its new system OceanoPAS. UHB is one of the 12 NHS trusts designated as an NHS Global Digital Exemplar by NHS England, providing access to up to £10m to invest in digital infrastructure […]
Bridgewater supports successful fully integrated Child Protection Information Sharing pilot using TPP
A ‘first of type’ SystmOne Child Protection – Information Sharing (CP-IS) pilot tested functionality at Leigh NHS Walk-in Centre and showed the benefits of providing clinicians with child protection or safeguarding matters involving patients. CP-IS is a system that enables child protection information to be shared securely between local authorities […]
Clanwilliam Group acquires Medisec Software
A rapidly expanding group of health technology companies has added another established NHS technology provider in a drive to support digitisation ambitions across the UK health service. Medisec Software, which has been working with NHS organisations for 25 years to digitise clinical correspondence and dictation, has been acquired by Clanwilliam […]
Ripple Foundation launches its showcase stack
Ripple Foundation has launched its showcase stack encompassing three open source elements – front end UX/UI framework, middleware and backend/data repository. Each component harnesses the power of open source and aims to demonstrate open standards in action to show that there is a different way to provide technology to our care […]
London Borough of Barnet signs up to telecare services
The London Borough of Barnet has signed a contract with the PA Consulting Group-led Argenti Care Technology Partnership (Argenti) to deliver care technology services across the borough for up to five years from April 2017. Argenti provides innovative telecare services to support vulnerable people so that they can stay in […]
Telehealth GP Service is First to Pass CQC Inspection
Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has announced that it has become the first, and to date the UK’s only, telehealth (mHealth) GP service provider to be declared “safe” and meet all regulations set by the new digital health reporting guidelines, set by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following a recent inspection on 14 June, Now Healthcare Group was found to be meeting all necessary criteria across five categories, and was deemed to […]
HTN July Newsletter
It’s been another busy month! We launched our Health Tech Awards 2017 to celebrate some of the great health tech projects and innovations from the past year. We hope you have the time to make a submission. In July we have covered many interesting projects that are really making a difference. Here […]
