Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS FT has installed a state-of-the-art virtual reality computer gaming suite at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital to help patents with visual vertigo. The use of the technology has already led to a dramatic improvement in recovery times for patients suffering with the condition, with those using the […]
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Health Innovation Exchange supports Oh My Mood to develop their mental health programmes
Mental health company Oh My Mood are developing their blended care pathways programme for the UK market, now with support from the Health Innovation Exchange project. Oh My Mood work with clinicians, universities to make evidence-based blended care pathways available to mental health therapists and service users in order to […]
New webinars join HTN Digital Week
The agenda for HTN Digital Week has developed and we are pleased to confirm 5 webinars have joined the programme of digital activity. HTN Digital Week is an innovative week to celebrate, share and showcase your work across healthcare technology from 21st – 25th January 2019. The webinars added to the agenda […]
Ascom wins UK care home contract
Ascom has won a contract with Wren Hall Nursing Home in Nottingham – rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission. The contract will see Ascom rolling out its teleCARE platform for nearly 100 staff caring for 53 residents aged between 67-99. The platform integrates staff messaging via Ascom’s Myco smartphone […]
PRSB publishes standards for document indexing
A new document naming standard developed by the PRSB in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians Health Informatics Unit aims to ensure that records are properly named and indexed, so they can be retrieved in order to provide ongoing care. People can easily have hundreds of digital and paper […]
Hampshire Hospitals launches My Medical Record
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is launching a new digital system that will give patients more opportunity to manage their own hospital care. My Medical Record is a system that allows patients to connect with clinicians and receive information from the Trust online, reducing the need for them to visit […]
Northern Ireland rolls-out new diabetes pathway
Following the implementation of the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record (NIECR) by Health & Social Care NI (HSCNI), Orion Health has rolled-out a new Diabetes Pathway across the country. Following a successful pilot exercise with a small number of users including nurses, consultants and podiatrists, the pathway can now be accessed […]
Dictate IT joins Clanwilliam Group
Dictate IT a provider of digital dictation has become part of the Clanwilliam Group, the 18th company joining the group. The company provides digital dictation, outsourced transcription, and speech recognition services to 27 healthcare providers in the UK and Ireland. Managing director Mark Miller said the move would enable Dictate […]
Opinion: Barney Gilbert, CEO of Forward App on the NHS banning fax machines
Medical histories spewing quietly unnoticed onto a desk in a busy ward, urgent information being sent to places that doctors can’t access, junior doctors leaving a patient’s bedside to pick up a piece of paper that has just been delivered then running back with essential information quite literally in hand. Welcome […]
NHS banned from buying fax machines
Matt Hancock has banned the NHS from buying fax machines and has ordered a complete phase-out by April 2020. NHS trusts will instead be required to invest in new technology to replace outdated systems. The ban on buying fax machines takes effect from January 2019. They will be phased out […]
