Epic has announced the release of new capabilities allowing app developers to build “connectors” linking other apps to Epic, and to support surfacing information stored elsewhere without switching between apps or portals. These connectors will reportedly allow information and complete tasks within other apps to be surfaced in Epic, and […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
Berkshire Healthcare selects digital MSK service supplier
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has selected Flok Health to supply digital MSK triage and management services, at a total cost of £400k. The trust has contracted Flok Health to provide a fully managed service offering a “complete alternative” to traditional community physio pathways, with 24/7 digital triage and remote […]
King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ report £4.1 million in savings from EPR
King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ have reported savings of £4.1 million from their combined use of the Epic EPR system. The trusts point to the avoidance of 3.3 million duplicate or repeat tests, saving up to 275,000 hours of nursing and phlebotomy time since 2023. This has […]
HTN Now: Cyber resilience in the NHS, impact of AI and emerging tech challenges, preparing for 2027
HTN was joined by Julian Wiggins, solutions director at Rackspace Technology, and Nasser Arif, cyber security manager at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, for a recent webinar on the topic of cyber resilience. Our panel discussed challenges around AI and emerging tech, practical […]
North East Ambulance Service strategy looks to “the road ahead” with tech, data and AI
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is looking to “the road ahead” in its latest trust strategy, recognising the increasing role that tech, data, and AI will play in shaping urgent and emergency care delivery. Introducing the strategy, trust chair Stuart Corbridge and chief executive Kevin Scollay note: “The […]
Feature: Closer to home, why community digital is the missing link
By Gary Mooney, clinical solution executive at InterSystems Margaret is 84, she lives alone with frailty and heart failure. She is admitted to her local hospital by ambulance after a fall for the third time this year. Her district nurse had noted weight gain, her GP had changed a diuretic, […]
DHSC guidance on digitising adult social care, managing IT suppliers, using AI
New DHSC guidance on digitising adult social care has tackled how services can be fully digital, adopt AI, manage IT suppliers, and introduce digital champions. The DHSC advises that providers are considered to be “fully digitised care providers” if they are registered with the CQC, use an assured DSCR solution, […]
Digital patient monitoring system among innovative projects to improve cancer services across the Humber
Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance has awarded a share of £135,000 to three projects run by Humber Health Partnership aiming to improve cancer services and outcomes for patients. The funding is awarded as part of the Cancer Research and Innovation Awards, designed to help turn ideas into improvements to […]
Barts Health and Guy’s and St Thomas’ funding for AI digital twins of human tissue
An AI project from PharosAI, a collaboration between Barts Health NHS Trust, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), and King’s College London (KCL), has received funding from Innovate UK to explore the potential to develop digital twins of human tissue. PharosAI is focused […]
The Christie shares impact of AVT on patient experience
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust has shared updates on its use of ambient voice technology, offering an insight into how it is being used to support the patient experience. Earlier this year, the trust reported that a technical validation had been completed, with a phased roll out of the technology […]
