Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with the Criteria Led Discharge (CLD) pathway, embedded into its electronic health record system. The trust said the new pathway functionality, now part of its electronic health record (EHR) PPM+, forms part of its programme to optimise discharge processes, aiming to support […]
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Two trusts go live with patient management tech
Two trusts, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, have gone live with a digital solution to support patient flow management. The technology, from Alcidion, provides the trusts with tools to support real-time patient monitoring and patient flow management; including decision support, an early warning […]
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS embarks on new infrastructure
The University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has picked services from NTT DATA UK to modernise its infrastructure. The trust will adopt the company’s ‘Device as a Service’ (DaaS) approach, hoped to speed-up the time it takes staff to login to systems, and provide single sign-on and virtual desktop solutions. NTT […]
£150m for digital as part of social care plan
The UK Government has released a new white paper on social care, which sets out plans for the next ten years, including new investment of £150 million for digital. The document – ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform’ – sets out aims and goals, as well […]
Agenda released for HTN Now Electronic Patient Records
The HTN Now Focus online event series continues, with the next edition specifically on electronic patient records, set to take place 9 December 2021. Join HTN and colleagues for the third edition in the HTN Now Focus series, where we explore the electronic patient record (EPR) programme at Newcastle Hospitals […]
Northamptonshire HCP’s population health learning programme goes live
Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership (HCP) has gone live with its own population health learning programme. One of five systemwide Action Learning Sets (ALS) began this week, bringing leaders and colleagues from across the local Integrated Care System together, along with analytics and finance experts, and Primary Care Network (PCN) teams. […]
Edinburgh study published on ‘surgery selfies’ and infection identification
A study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, which has been published in npj Digital Medicine, has found that ‘surgery selfies’ – smartphone pictures taken of post-surgical wounds by patients, which are then assessed by clinicians – ‘can help with the early identification of infections’. Experts say that, in […]
Chief information officers debate EPR challenges and opportunities
Feature by Highland Marketing Digitising hospitals was the focus of NHS IT policy for twenty years. The job is still unfinished: so what are the options for trusts – and the integrated care systems that are planned to take over health tech strategy and funding next April? The Highland Marketing […]
Digital mental health tech raises £39 million
Ieso Digital has announced that it has secured £39 million in Series B financing, to develop its evidence-based digital therapeutics solutions. The company said the funding will be used to “develop autonomous therapy systems” and hoped to “match the standards of human care delivery”. In the announcement, the company highlighted […]
National digital record for children and young people with epilepsy to launch
A digital platform for children and young people with epilepsy is to go live in December 2021, through a partnership with the Young Epilepsy Charity and health tech supplier Patients Know Best (PKB). The organisations have partnered to deliver a national solution which can support children and young people with […]
