Royston Adamson-Green is the EMEA & APAC Channel Director of Sales for NextGate, the global leader in healthcare identity management. Accurate patient identification is a critical aspect of healthcare delivery in the NHS, especially in the push toward facilitating safe, highly-coordinated, patient-centric health services across the country. With considerable efforts […]
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HTN Feature: Paper free at the point of care
In our latest feature we focus on technology projects that have replaced a previous paper based system. We spoke with industry experts to hear their views and to hear about various projects across health and care delivering cost and time savings. Here we have curated a series of comments and […]
PCMIS platform supports thousands of people affected by Manchester Arena Attack
A partnership between Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and PCMIS has supported thousands of people that were affected by the Manchester Arena Attack on 22nd May 2017 where 22 people lost their lives. The partnership between mental health and technology experts led to the formation of the Manchester resilience hub, hosted by Pennine […]
Opinion: managing and sharing information to deliver the NHSX objectives
By Vijay Magon, CEO, CCube Solutions NHSX has announced it wants to assemble a world-class team of technical experts to help solve some of the biggest technology challenges in health and care. The objective is to help clinicians and policymakers improve patient experience through the power of technology. More recently […]
HTN Industry View: NHSX to mandate health tech standards
Last week HTN reported on NHSX confirming their intent to mandate the use of internationally-recognised tech and data standards across the NHS to ensure a consistent language of clinical terms to help staff share information, as reported by HTN here. Following our news article, we asked the industry for their views […]
Interview Series: Dr Tanya Pankhurst, University Hospitals Birmingham
In our latest interview we spoke with Dr Tanya Pankhurst, Deputy Director of Digital Healthcare from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). What systems are used at UHB and how advanced are you with technology? Here at UHB we are quite unique, we have a team of programmers and build […]
Interview Series: Stephen Hannan, Clinical Services Director, Optical Express
In our latest Interview Series we spoke with Stephen Hannan, Clinical Services Director at Optical Express. We asked Stephen a few questions to understand further what the NHS Long Term Plan means to the optical sector, the tech revolution and some achievements and challenges for Optical Express. Optical Express first […]
HTN Feature: Interoperability
In our latest feature we focus on interoperability and the exchange of healthcare information. Matt Hancock has been very clear in his intent for technology to revolution health and care, and it seems interoperability is now higher on the agenda than it ever was before. In our interviews with the […]
Opinion: A Clinical Outcomes and Mortality Challenge
By Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper and Dash Hospital mortality continues to be a serious concern, a subject of much conversation so much so that in 2017, the Learning from Death initiative was implemented across the NHS to systematically review mortality in an effort to ensure providers were learning from the […]
Feature: NHS Email Communication
During a speech recently at a NHS England conference Matt Hancock outlined ambitions for healthcare staff to email patients directly with information on appointments to reduce delays and cut costs in paper and postage. In the speech Hancock said “Email is as secure and cheaper than communicating through paper and […]
