NHS Digital has announced plans to improve transparency around how patient data is utilised and accessed, via a new Data Uses Register. According to the organisation, the ‘new interactive tool’ will make it easier to see who is viewing the data, what they are allowed to use it for and […]
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Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital aims in Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT’s new strategy
As part of our Health Tech Trends Series 2021, which is supported by InterSystems, HTN in a three-part edition, takes a closer look at new NHS trust strategies set to be implemented across the next five years. A number of organisations have been releasing their plans or draft papers with […]
Greater Manchester announces plans for improving digital inclusion
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester recently set out new plans to improve digital inclusion and get residents in the region online. A Digital Inclusion Action Network has now been established to help support the Mayor’s ambitions, which include finding ways to provide all under-25s, over-75s and people that […]
Suppliers offered opportunity to develop Health and Social Care Standards Register
The UK Government and NHSX have opened a new opportunity to develop a Health and Social Care Standards Register, to provide a core catalogue of existing standards and supporting materials. The programme aims to ensure there is one place to host the standards that apply to a particular healthcare setting, provider […]
NHSX asks healthcare professionals to send in challenges that could be solved by tech
NHSX has put out a direct request to health and social care professionals, asking them to send in information about workplace challenges they are facing that they think could be addressed with a digital or tech solution. Posted through the NHSX Innovation Lab, the call is asking for assistance from […]
Acute COVID app to train redeployed NHS staff now available across the UK
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its official charity CW+ have launched the Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff who have been redeployed to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-developed with Imagineear Health, the app was originally created as a tool to help staff across the trust’s two […]
NHS Digital announces new plans for GP data collection service
NHS Digital has announced new plans for the GP Data for Planning and Research programme, a primary care data collection service which will make near-real-time information available to clinicians and researchers. Originally challenged for a planned launch on 1 July 2021, the programme was later pushed back and set to begin […]
Welsh portals link up with English trusts, update access to digital genetic results for cancer treatment
Digital Health and Care Wales has announced two new developments, cross-border sharing with trusts in England and an update on digital genetic test results. The Welsh Admin Portal (WAP) can now, for the first time, link up with hospitals across the border in England. The system that is used to […]
News in brief: AI app calculates pre-eclampsia risk, new Welsh ambulance app, health research supercomputer
There’s never a dull moment in the world of health tech, with last week seeing stories surface of new suppliers joining the NHSX Digitising Social Care Records Programme, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust’s new digital strategy developing, and the NHS ORB app being ready for […]
Ideagen makes acquisitions
Ideagen, a provider of quality management systems in health and care, and other industries, has announced two acquisitions to add to its product offering. The specialist compliance software provider has completed the acquisition of Advanced Digital Systems Inc, trading as Mi-Co, for a cash consideration of £3.1m on completion. Advanced […]
