Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT has announced the formal accreditation from NHS England as a Global Digital Exemplar, and confirmation its achieved HIMSS EMRAM level 5. The trust embarked on the programme in 2017, when selected as one of seven mental health trusts to receive funding to become a Global Digital […]
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This week at HTN, we covered the news of 128 successful bids as part of the Digital Maternity Fund, explored Sajid Javid’s speech where he set out a vision for the NHS from a digital perspective, and also published our keynote talk from HTN Digital Primary Care with Dr Minal Bakhai […]
128 successful bids to the Digital Maternity Fund
NHS England and Improvement’s Digital Maternity Fund has awarded 128 bids funding to support the digitisation of maternity services across England. Some of the trusts to secure funding include Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT who have been awarded £208,000, Birmingham Women’s Hospital awarded £500,000, and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over […]
12 health tech start-ups join Amazon Web Services accelerator
Amazon Web Services has announced 12 health tech start-ups to join its first healthcare accelerator programme. The 12 start-ups have been selected following 117 applications from 13 countries, by a panel from Amazon Web Services and PUBLIC. The tech firms will now join a four-week programme aimed to provide ‘technical, […]
Sajid Javid sets out vision for the NHS underpinned by digital
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid delivered a speech (8 March 2022) at the Royal College of Physicians, London, setting our his vision for the NHS. The speech set out priorities for health reform, including underlying principles, as well as the role of digital, and themes including the right to choose, […]
Video: Dr Minal Bakhai keynote, transforming the model of general practice
Dr Minal Bakhai, Clinical Director for General Practice Transformation and Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, delivered one of the two keynote speeches at HTN Digital Primary Care 2022. Focusing her talk on ‘transforming the model of general practice’, Dr Bakhai discussed the changes in access […]
Dumfries and Galloway completes GP data sharing pilot
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has completed a pilot project using the Medical Interoperability Gateway to connect health providers with GP data in the region. The Health Board is the first in Scotland to roll-out the technology, which provides access to patient data from 31 GP practices, through the Orion patient portal. […]
NHS SBS opens AI procurement framework
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has opened a new procurement framework specifically for Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that supports the analysis of medical imaging for ischaemic or haemorrhagic strokes. Five suppliers have been selected on to the framework; AI Doc, Brainomix, Viz AI, Behold AI and Ischemaview. The tools, said […]
Feature: four key things to consider when implementing Shared Care Records
A feature by InterSystems David Hancock, Healthcare Executive Advisor at InterSystems shares another industry thought-piece with the team at HTN. Having previously covered the redesign of pathways for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and tackled Electronic Patient Record (EPR) transformation, this time, David turns his attention to Shared Care Records. One […]
Microsoft completes acquisition of Nuance
Microsoft has announced the completion of the acquisition of Nuance Communication for over £12 billion ($16 billion). The announcement follows the duo entering into a definitive agreement in April 2021, and a regulatory investigation from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). In December 2021 the CMA opened an investigation to establish if […]
