NHS England has launched https://twitter.com/nhs A UK first, @NHS will see a different NHS patient or member of its 1.3 million staff become curator each week over a three month pilot and report first hand their experiences of the health service. @NHS curators will have sole control of the account […]
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NHS England: Mental health digital innovators to apply for new £400k fund
NHS England has launched a new fund to find six to eight innovators to take part in the Digital Development Lab being delivered by mHabitat. The technology that must improve people’s mental health can now apply for a piece of a £400k fund to speed up adoption of their technology. […]
Artificial intelligence health company adds board member to promote growth
Clinically-led artificial intelligence (AI) company Deontics has announced Nick Beard as a non-executive director. Beard is a physician and former hospital chief information officer. Over a 30 year career, he has held numerous senior executive positions at leading electronic health records and clinical guidelines companies in both the US and […]
Northgate Public Services secures five year contract
Northgate Public Services (NPS) has been awarded an £8 million, five year contract to continue providing data solutions and services to the National Joint Registry (NJR), the world’s largest orthopaedic registry and a critical resource for improving health outcomes. The contract was awarded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) […]
Specialist Information Lifecycle Management delivers Compliance for NHS Trusts
Written by Daniel Hickmore, Health Subject Matter Expert, Arkivum Traditional methods for managing the growing deluge of health data simply do not scale any more. Whether observational, research data or medical, clinical imaging, telemetry data or patient-generated consumer device data, healthcare organisations face increasing risks, compliance obligations and data-related IT […]
New awareness campaign aims to help organisations prepare for GS1
Recent figures suggest that a third of NHS Trust1 are still not engaged in GS1 despite the Department of Health (DoH) mandate announced in 2014 to use barcoding standards for all Acute Trusts. To help tackle this issue Omnicell UK, a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions to […]
EHI Awards 2016 celebrate innovation and progress of digital health
The 10th anniversary of the ehi Awards has paid tribute to an extraordinary array of talent in the NHS who are attempting to bolster efficiency and patient care with state-of-the-art IT initiatives. The winners were announced in London last night (29th September) at the health industry’s only dedicated IT awards […]
Kodak Alaris expands scanner portfolio further to drive digital transformation
Big Data and unstructured information are among the greatest challenges that modern businesses face. The dilemma is that much of the world’s data is embedded in countless formats: from email to paper documents, to social media posts, to phone calls, text messages and more. Today, Kodak Alaris launches a new […]
Opinion Piece: Integration for millions of patients: making NHS interoperability whole-system
As sustainability and transformation plans shape the future of care for millions, interoperability must extend to all care settings, writes InterSystems’ David Hancock. The NHS is demanding and proving that true integration is finally about to happen. STP success rests on whole-system interoperability Big changes are happening as the NHS […]
MHealth: How Apps are helping the Healthcare sector. By Paul Swaddle, Chairman at Pocket App
Healthcare technology is now a major disruptor in an industry where population is stretching the resources on the NHS. With 1.5 billion global unit sales of smartphones this year. Ten years from now everyone from teens to the elderly will be carrying a smartphone, and these mobile devices will be […]
