YouTube has announced plans to introduce new features that will platform authoritative health information from trusted sources and help users to locate and identify reliable content. Aimed at the US audience for now, Dr Garth Graham, the Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships for YouTube, detailed […]
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Chelsea and Westminster’s Dr Ryan Dhunnookchand: app building to up-skill staff on a coronavirus ward
Last week, HTN covered the nationwide release of the free-to-use Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff that have been redeployed from their regular roles to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-designed and developed by Imagineear Health and a team from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (which includes both Chelsea and […]
Google Cloud to introduce Healthcare Data Engine for interoperability
Google Cloud has announced the private preview of a new solution – called the Healthcare Data Engine – which it says will enable interoperability by ‘harmonising’ longitudinal patient records to improve care, research, and procedures. Described as an ‘end-to-end solution for healthcare and life sciences organisations’ which brings together data, […]
Royal Marsden plans new Digital Health Record
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has announced a new programme to implement a Digital Health Record (DHR) to replace its electronic patient record system. Following recent business case approval from its Board, The Royal Marsden will partner with Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and begin the roll-out of […]
News in brief: menopause app piloted for staff at NHS trust, HSBC backs GenesisCare cancer tech, first Turing AI research fellows
August has arrived, which means only one thing for us at HTN – it’s time for our first ever Digital Primary Care Conference. Find out more about the agenda for Wednesday – which features keynotes from Dr Nikki Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement, and […]
East Kent Hospitals pilots Bluetooth patient tracking
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has launched a pilot of a Bluetooth patient flow solution, from technology company MYSPHERA. The company’s first installation of the technology in the UK is providing the trust with a patient tracking system, to locate patients at any moment on the trust’s surgical […]
Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership picks openEHR platform
Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership has chosen an openEHR platform for its regional medicines record. After being awarded the contract, Better will support the Partnership in delivering the record to a population of 1.8 million, through both its openEHR platform and Better Meds software. The aim is […]
Sunderland Royal Hospital announces GDE achievement
Sunderland Royal Hospital, part of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT), has announced it has met all the requirements of the national Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme. Andy Hart, Director of Information Management and Technology at the trust, will receive the official GDE accreditation, a ‘hallmark of excellence’ […]
CCube Solutions hits 50 billion digital images milestone
CCube Solutions, a specialist in supporting healthcare providers with electronic document management tools, has announced it has achieved a milestone of capturing, managing, and delivering 50 billion images of NHS paper documents. A company tackling the NHS paperless agenda, CCube Solutions said its solutions now host over 450 million records, […]
Myrecovery app to roll-out across Greater Manchester
Myrecovery, an app to support patients through their orthopaedic care, has been selected by seven NHS trusts across Greater Manchester. Developed by surgeons, the digital companion has been created to support patients to prepare for and recover from surgery, and will be initially used for patients across Manchester who are […]
