Darktrace, a leading AI company for cyber defense, has announced that 4 NHS Trusts will be adopting Darktrace’s AI technology to safeguard systems and patient information, including prescription and blood type data. In 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack spread globally and implicated 61 NHS organisations. Darktrace Antigena successfully interrupted the […]
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New care record guide published by PRSB
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published its revised standards for the structure and content of health and care records to support digital information sharing among professionals and help people access better, safer care. The “PRSB Standards for the Structure and Content of Health and Care Records” an essential […]
Firefighters add heart checks to Safe and Well visits with expansion of innovative project
Firefighters in Eastern Cheshire will soon be adding potentially life-saving heart checks to their Safe and Well visits following the expansion of an innovative project. Health Innovation Manchester is working in partnership with Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) and NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG to improve the detection of atrial […]
Worcestershire CCGs use advanced GP telephony
South Worcestershire, Redditch and Bromsgrove and Wyre Forest CCGs are rolling out advanced cloud-based VOIP telephone services across the region’s GP surgeries. The move will provide patients with easier access to healthcare, staff with the ability to work more efficiently and remotely, and doctors with a cost-effective platform to reduce […]
MindMate and Leeds CCG to launch Snapchat campaign
Six ambassadors from MindMate have been turned into digital caricatures of themselves and will feature on filters within the popular Snapchat photo messaging app. The filters are being promoted at various events and locations in Leeds in the coming months including university open days, festivals, concerts and sporting events. Ten […]
Dorset Care Record adds Alerts and Encounters from Dorset County Hospital
Alerts and encounters from Dorset County Hospital (DCH) have this week been added to the Dorset Care Record (DCR). It will mean that additional data from DCH including inpatients, outpatients, Emergency Department encounters and alerts are now registered on the DCR. Up to 5,000 messages a day will go through the […]
Thames Valley and Yorkshire and Humber join Local Health and Care Record Exemplars
Last month NHS England announced three areas, covering 14 million people, had been chosen to become ‘Local Health and Care Record Exemplars’ (LHCRE). New partnerships that will each receive up to £7.5 million over two years to put in place an electronic shared local health and care record that makes […]
North Tyneside CCG chooses Spirit Diabetes Education
NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed Spirit as its provider of structured diabetes education (SDE) for patients newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. The CCG has now chosen to expand the service to all patients with Type 2 diabetes, irrespective of when they were diagnosed. Additionally, to improve […]
Surrey Care Record announced
Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership together with NHS East Surrey Clinical Commissioning Group has today announced the Surrey Care Record. The Surrey Care Record will see some GP records being made available to professionals within the A&E departments of their four local hospital trusts – St Peter’s, Royal Surrey, Epsom and […]
New local health and care exemplars selected
New partnerships will be introduced across Greater Manchester, Wessex and One London giving health and care staff better and faster access to vital information about the person in their care, so they can determine the right action as quickly as possible, whether that is urgent tests or a referral to a specialist. At the […]
