Southern Communications Group has acquired X-on, a cloud-based telephony specialist that supports 1,400 GP practices. Business-to-business communications provider, Southern Communications Group (SCG), said the move will help drive a significant new phase in X-on’s growth plans. Currently 17.5 per cent of the GP practice market uses the company’s tech. Under the […]
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EMIS acquires medical appraisals specialist FourteenFish
EMIS Group has announced its second acquisition of 2022, purchasing medical appraisals specialist FourteenFish. Founded by a GP and IT specialist in 2012, the UK-based technology company supports over 100,000 healthcare professionals, such as nurses, GPs and practice managers. They are known for providing an easy-to-use, modern, Trainee Portfolio and […]
News in Brief: UK health tech deployed in The Gambia, Miiskin dermatology app research, digital nursing in Wales…
It’s been a busy week at HTN. We’ve explored data protection and cyber security in healthcare, covered news on the winners of phase two funding for the Digital Health Partnership Award, and published our keynote talk with Dr Mala Ubhi from HTN Digital Primary Care Conference, in which she discusses transforming the […]
Feature: Remember Bevan; new integrated care systems must put patient at centre
Feature by Inhealthcare As NHS and local government leaders set up new integrated care systems across England, it is worth remembering a post-war speech by the founding father of the national health service. Aneurin Bevan said: “We must recognise that our hospital service is organised for the service of the […]
Frimley ICS adopts EMIS analytics for patient trends
Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS) has utilised EMIS-X Analytics to identify trends, such as patient behaviours and areas of increasing demand. Using data drawn from the local shared care record and population health tools, EMIS and Frimley ICS, have identified a 17 per cent annual rise in demand for […]
Feature: Sussex ICS community diagnostic centres
As we’ve launched our new Integrated Care Systems (ICS) channel, we wanted to explore some practical digital solutions and programmes that are supporting new pathways and models of working, across a local healthcare system. Here we focus on community diagnostic centres (CDCs), delving into what this model looks like and the opportunities […]
Liverpool Heart and Chest awarded HIMSS stage 6
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS FT (LHCH) has achieved the HIMSS (Health Information and Management System Society) Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6 rating. The HIMSS EMRAM system, an international quality standard, measures the adoption and maturity of a health facility’s inpatient EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection) capabilities […]
Lyniate and NextGate announce merger agreement
Interoperability specialists Lyniate have entered into a definitive merger agreement with Nextgate, a company focusing on identity and master patient index solutions. The organisations said through ‘increased market demand’ for interoperability solutions, and to support data quality and data sharing, the two will be joining. Erkan Akyuz, president and CEO of Lyniate, […]
NHS Scotland announces national remote patient monitoring programme
NHS Scotland has awarded a contract to Inhealthcare to support the scaling up of remote monitoring services across Scotland, bringing them into mainstream use. The award supports the Scottish Government’s Digital Health and Care Strategy, which details how the country’s services and public can ‘adapt to change’ and ‘thrive in a […]
Cheshire and Merseyside tech kit recycling project targets digitally excluded
Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership has shared how a ‘tech kit’ recycling project has helped improve outcomes for digitally excluded groups. By supporting the group online and encouraging them with digital health services, the ICS says it’s opened up access to mental health support, and how to live healthier […]
