This week as part of the HTN COVID-19 Webinar Learning Series, we invite you to attend a session focusing on healthcare interoperability and how it’s supporting pathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new Health Tech Webinar Learning Series supports sharing information and learnings on the role of technology to support […]
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Health Tech Heroes part two
Each week as part of our Health Tech Heroes series we recognise and say thank you to those in health tech making a real difference. Here in the second part in the series, we cover some of the amazing work this week where teams across the country have been working […]
NHS COVID-19 symptom checker launched to help build up additional data
An online symptom checker has been launched to help the NHS coordinate its response and build up additional data on the COVID-19 pandemic. NHS England, NHSX and NHS Digital collaborated to develop the Coronavirus Status Checker to ask people with potential symptoms to complete the online questionnaire. The short survey is […]
Interview Series: Alan Lowe, CEO of Visionable
In our latest interview we speak with Alan Lowe, CEO of Visionable, the specialist video collaboration provider. Could you tell me a bit about Visionable? I’m an NHS manager by background. I started my career in London, where I managed frontline services and worked in service improvement. I installed one […]
Microsoft Teams sees 44,885 NHS users per day
On 18th March NHSX, NHS Digital and Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams would be available for free for three months. The tool was rolled out to all NHSmail users on 20th March and between March 22–28 it was used to facilitate 973,072 private online chats, rising from 6,804 on March 22 to a […]
NWIS adds COVID-19 test results to Welsh Clinical Portal
The NHS Wales Informatics Services has announced COVID-19 test results have been added to its national clinical portal. The unit developed an electronic test requesting system for use in community test units across Wales and has now made this information available. Patients who test for COVID-19 will be added to […]
Hosted document sharing platform launched for free to support healthcare teams during COVID-19 pandemic
An independent document sharing platform has been launched by CCube Solutions to support providers and health professionals access information during the COVID-19 crisis. The company said it is providing a secure cloud-based platform that is accessible from any device and independently from an IT system to support healthcare professionals access […]
NHSX appoints Director of Standards and Interoperability
NHSX has appointed Irina Bolychevsky as its Director of Standards and Interoperability. The role reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer, David Turner who was recently appointed to the role and will join the unit next month. The Director of Standards and Interoperability role has a salary over £100,000 and has responsibility […]
HTN volunteer and jobs service now free
HTN is pleased to announce the HTN and Leading Healthcare jobs service is now free. For years the service has supported many organisations with their recruitment activities for specialist roles and now we are offering this service for free. If you are looking for a volunteer or have a vacancy, […]
NHS Digital publishes data on COVID-19 symptoms reported
NHS Digital has published a new dashboard that shows the total number of COVID-19 symptoms reported through NHS Pathways triages through 111 and 999, and online assessments in 111 online. NHS Digital said the data is based on potential COVID-19 symptoms reported and is not a count of people, where a […]