Welcome to our latest news in brief, where we take a look at some of the health tech news stories to have caught our eye over the last few weeks. Royal Orthopaedic Hospital signs new EPR contract The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has shared that it has signed […]
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Five-year strategic commissioning plan reveals ambitions for shared care records, AI, remote monitoring at Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB
Publishing their five-year strategic commissioning plan in line with the NHS England medium-term planning requirements, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB has shared ambitions for shared care records, AI, remote monitoring, data, digital diagnostics, and more. The ICB states that digital and data transformation “underpins all intentions, including wider use of […]
Manchester University NHS FT plans next phase of Microsoft AI collaboration
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is to launch the next phase of its AI collaboration with Microsoft, looking to increase access for colleagues to Copilot and establish an MFT “Agent Factory” to support teams in designing and implementing AI tools to automate routine operational tasks. The trust has already […]
Interview: Adrian Harris, chief medical officer, digital and research, at Royal Devon University Healthcare shares insights on five-year digital journey
HTN caught up with Adrian Harris, chief medical officer, digital and research, at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, to find out more about the trust’s recently published five-year digital journey. Adrian started out with a brief introduction: “I qualified 40 years ago as a doctor, and I’m an […]
HTN Now: Deep dive into healthcare cloud adoption, AI maturity and cyber resilience
HTN was joined by a panel including Ciara Moore, EPR operations director at Bath, Salisbury and Great Western Group, Stuart Cooney, CTO at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, and Julian Wiggins, healthcare solution director at Rackspace Technology, for a discussion focusing on cloud adoption, AI maturity, and cyber resilience. Panellists explored […]
Torbay and South Devon EPR go-live set for April
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust has shared details of its planned go-live of the Epic EPR, marking another step toward realising the ambitions of the One Devon EPR programme. The go-live is planned for 3 April 2026, integrating “hundreds” of systems previously in use across the the trust […]
Ambient AI study shows patients likely to self-censor on mental and sexual health
A study exploring informed consent for ambient documentation using generative AI in outpatient care has highlighted nuances including that patients are more likely to self-censor when talking about mental and sexual health or illicit activity during consultations. The study, published in Jama Network Open, was conducted from March to December […]
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB details digital plans, priorities, and £29.6m transformation fund
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has outlined a range of digital plans and priorities to 2031 in its five-year clinical and strategic commissioning plan, also incorporating system ambitions for population health improvement, and advising of a £29.6 million transformation fund for 2026-27. The ICB commits to a single multi-year digital investment […]
Rackspace Technology and Rubrik launch UK Sovereign Cyber Recovery Cloud
Rackspace Technology, an end-to-end hybrid cloud and AI solutions company, has partnered with Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, to launch a ransomware cyber recovery solution focused on protecting and restoring UK public sector and regulated workloads “within hours of attack”. UK Sovereign Cyber Recovery Cloud is designed to […]
Medium term plan for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare shares plans for EPR transformation and scaling innovation
A medium term plan for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has shared details of digital plans and priorities for the next five years, with focuses on the shift from analogue to digital, and ambitions for EPR transformation, single patient record, digitising pathways, and scaling digital innovation. “Digital transformation will […]
