By Peter Godden, VP of EMEA at Zerto Healthcare IT is faced with many evolving threats and challenges. Regulation in the sector is constantly evolving, creating a greater need for uninterrupted IT services, and cyber criminals continue to present a bigger problem. By targeting hospitals zealously with ransomware and pushing […]
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Leicestershire celebrates Chat Health milestone
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) is celebrating this month as the number of young people able to access its award winning secure text messaging service, ChatHealth, reaches one million.ChatHealth is a web-based text messaging service which ChatHealth is a web-based text messaging service which young people of secondary school age […]
NHS Digital extends programme to widen participation in digital health
NHS Digital aims to help thousands of people to improve their digital health skills, with the launch of the next phase of a three-year Widening Digital Participation (WDP) programme. The project will develop 20 local digital inclusion pathfinder projects across all four NHS regions, over the next three years. The […]
CSC Partners with Draper & Dash to transform data visualisation
CSC has announced a partnership with Draper & Dash, London based specialists in enterprise wide healthcare analytics and data visualisation. Under the agreement, CSC will serve as reseller for Draper & Dash in Australia and New Zealand, offering hospitals and health services more than 20 proven dashboards that are rapidly […]
Electronic records enable safer hospital care for Ayrshire patients
A multidisciplinary team is giving safer, more efficient care to vulnerable patients in an Ayrshire hospital, with the help of two-way record sharing via EMIS Health. More than 50 staff – including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists – have switched from paper records to the EMIS […]
Opinion Piece: Backup and recovery in healthcare – what’s virtualization got to do with it?
By Chris Welch, Product Manager – RAPid, BridgeHead Software For the enterprise, virtualization is not a new concept – it’s been doing the rounds for over 10 years and Gartner officially labelled the technology ‘mature’ in its May 2016 market report. And no wonder; it’s hard to argue against the […]
NHS Digital Industry Briefing
NHS Digital is hosting an industry briefing on Tuesday 21st March, 2pm – 4pm. The briefing will be a webinar, jointly hosted by Beverley Bryant, NHS Digital Director of Digital Transformation and techUK. The briefing will provide: An update of NHS Digital’s work including the “paperless 2020” programmes commissioned by […]
VideoDoc to provide on-demand GP service
New research commissioned by VideoDoc reveals that over half (52%) people of people questioned had delayed seeking medical advice as they were worried about taking time off work – a stat that rose to 70% amongst those working in London. Through its collaborations with leading healthcare insurance providers in Ireland, […]
Sheffield Hospitals to lead new virtual surgical centre of expertise
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to lead a new virtual specialist surgical centre of excellence aimed at tackling complex rare urogenital disorders, including pelvic floor dysfunction and bladder control problems. The new Centre, one of 24 European Reference Networks being established, will bring together leading surgeons and medical […]
UK and Italian health tech firms to help share crucial data across STPs
Data sharing ambitions set out in newly published sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have been given a boost by a new strategic partnership between data management specialist Stalis and Italy’s largest health IT company, Dedalus. The new partnership looks to make vital patient information, currently stored on dozens or even […]
