A single child health information system spanning the whole of South West England from South Gloucester to the Isles of Scilly, has successfully gone live based on System C’s CarePlus child health software. The system manages the records of 710,000 children, logging the health status of individual children and the […]
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HTN Exclusive: a closer look into the new platform EMIS-X
Last week HTN announced that EMIS had unveiled EMIS-X their ‘next generation of connected healthcare technology’ platform. Here we take a closer look into the new platform and ask their CTO some questions. Built on a cloud platform, EMIS-X is a new ecosystem that fully supports interoperability standards but goes […]
500,000 patients to benefit from new NHS partnerships and technologies
Seven new NHS Test Beds are being launched to tackle some of the biggest opportunities and challenges in health and care by testing combinations of innovations in real world clinical settings. The new Test Beds are being provided with more than £7 million of Government funding, alongside match funding from […]
Research highlights current state of mobile working for GPs
Recent research from Egton has highlighted the current state of mobile working and technology following a survey conducted with 1,003 UK GPs in August 2018. When asked about mobile working 70% said they see technology as important to facilitating mobile care, with 34% of the audience having said the need […]
£100m reported to be saved from prescribing tech
GPs and community providers have been reported to have surpassed £100 million in directly attributable savings since frontline staff began using an innovative technology to prescribe less expensive and more clinically appropriate medicines for individual patients. OptimiseRx, is now used in thousands of GP practices, and more than 125 clinical […]
CCube Solutions to transform Lloyd George records for GPs
CCube Solutions has launched a health record archiving service for GP practices to scan Lloyd George records currently stored within the practice and make available electronically, ensuring quality and cost efficiency at all times. This provides an opportunity for practices to significantly reduce storage costs, achieved through a skilled capable […]
AHSN funds a regional Health Information Exchange for the next two years
The Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria, working with its partners at Connected Health Cities, have agreed to fund a regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the next two years. The investment, worth £800K over the next two years, provides a more certain future for […]
Greater Manchester and Shaping Cloud to identify cloud strategy
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSC Partnership) and IT specialists Shaping Cloud is undertaking an ‘asset review’ that will baseline current infrastructure used across 20 NHS and local government organisations involved in the GMHSC Partnership. This review aims to identify what software applications are in use across the region […]
Cerner collaborates with North London Partners STP
Cerner has announced a new collaboration with North London Partners, a partnership of health and care organisations across five London boroughs. The collaboration will connect care information, share records, and apply advanced intelligence across North London to support their population health management initiatives, covering almost 1.5 million citizens. An STP […]
Booking service contract awarded to Spirit Healthcare
Twelve south London Clinical Commissioning Groups, led by NHS Southwark CCG, along with the Health Innovation Network, the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for south London have awarded Spirit Healthcare to help people living with diabetes to select and book the most appropriate diabetes education course for them. From October […]
