North Bristol NHS Trust is celebrating going live with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA), with hopes of improving medication safety, streamlining clinical workflows, and enhancing patient care. Jenna Auchraje, lead pharmacist for electronic prescribing, and leading the trust-wide implementation of Careflow Medicines Management, shared news of the “successful” go-live […]
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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS FT goes live with EPR
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the Epic electronic patient record system this week. In a LinkedIn post, David Grannell, associate director digital at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS, counted down the hours to the trust’s Epic EPR launch, following “four years of […]
HTN Now: Livi, The Rotherham NHS and Sheffield Children’s discuss scaling health technologies
For a HTN Now webinar discussion on scaling health technologies we welcomed Clair Scaife, nurse/AHP clinical lead with the service improvement team at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Annmarie Grogan, clinical and palliative lead nurse with the children’s community nursing team at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust; and Riccardo Arduini, […]
Stanford Health Care trials AI tool for clinicians to interact with and ask questions about patient medical records
Stanford Health Care is piloting an AI-backed software, ChatEHR, that enables clinicians to interact with and ask questions about patient medical records. ChatEHR uses information about a patient’s medical history to offer responses to clinician queries, automatically summarising charts and performing a range of other tasks to assist clinicians in […]
Chatbot utilised for 30 percent of Talking Therapies referrals at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
In the year since its initial introduction, an AI-powered digital referral assistant (chatbot) has been utilised for 30 percent of Talking Therapies referrals for anxiety and depression at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. The chatbot engages in conversation with individuals to capture referral information which is then automatically added […]
NHS England updates guidance on patient initiated follow-up
NHS England’s latest guidance on patient initiated follow-up has highlighted the role of the NHS App and digital tools in enabling patient choice, aiming to reduce operational barriers, promote consistency, and support providers in “embedding PIFU as part of routine clinical practice”. In a foreword, Stella Vig, elective recovery national […]
£300k patient management solution for intensive care units procured by University Hospitals Birmingham
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has entered a contract worth over £300k with Kinseed Limited for an end-to-end patient care management solution for intensive care units. The contract, set to run to March 2028, has a total value of £309, 680.20. Marked as an “IT software package”, the solution […]
Queen Victoria Hospital looks to November EPR launch
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust it to launch it Altera electronic patient record system in November. The EPR named “Archie” is labelled “the most significant digital transformation programme the trust has ever undertaken”, the trust shared. Implementation work began last year, with core elements relating to inpatients, outpatients, electronic […]
Digital Health and Care Wales upgrades vaccinations system and colposcopy administration system
Digital Health and Care Wales has shared progress of two system upgrades, on its Flu and Covid-19 vaccinations system, and its colposcopy administration system to improve the quality of information being recorded. The Welsh Immunisation System has been updated to offer capability from ordering and stock management through to recording […]
HTN Now Awards 25/26 launched and open for entries
HTN is pleased to launch the HTN Now Awards 25/26 back for another year! We’re celebrating health tech innovators, health care teams and suppliers who are making an impact in health and care and we can’t wait to hear from you. Providing a platform for innovations, solutions, case studies, collaborations […]
