A letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, national director for primary care and community services for NHS England, has highlighted additional investment for GP practices where digital telephony has “lower functionality than the national standards”, with calls for ICBs to validate their practice eligibility and send proposals in by 5 December […]
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Humber Teaching reveals EPR provider, “following a dedicated period of procurement”
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has announced TPP SystmOne as its electronic patient record provider, “following a dedicated period of procurement”. The trust made the announcement this month, under a programme brand of ‘Be Digital’ – including the strap-line of Discover, Develop, Design and Deploy. The EPR contract is for 10 […]
Medway Council Public Health opens tender for NHS Health Check software
Medway Council Public Health has opened a tender for digital software for NHS Health Checks to be delivered in GP surgeries in Medway. The procurement notice states that the software provider will need to be able to demonstrate previous experience of successfully delivering NHS Health Check software, and is required […]
AI trial leads to altered care plans for over 300 cardiac patients in Oxford
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared news of an artificial intelligence tool that researchers hope has the potential to improve treatment for patients undergoing CT scans for chest pain, with a trial leading to clinicians altering treatment plans for more than 300 patients. For the purposes of the study, […]
Digital strategy development and transition plans for new NHS trust in South East
Recent board papers from Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust revolve around ‘Project Fusion’, which will see a number of their services brought together under a new trust; as part of their meeting, the boards discussed the new trust’s developing digital strategy […]
COVID-19 secure research platform expansion to support research into other major diseases
NHS England has announced the expansion of the secure research platform OpenSAFELY, originally developed in collaboration with the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford in order to help researchers understand more about patient vulnerability to COVID-19 along with vaccine and treatment effectiveness, with the aim […]
Health data interoperability group highlights challenges and recommendations for progress
The Alberta Virtual Care Coordinating Body has published its ‘Interoperability Saves Lives’ report, identifying several factors hampering provincial progress in health data interoperability and making recommendations on legislation, design, assurance, and oversight. The report was conducted by a working group who performed a cost/benefit analysis of health data interoperability using […]
Journal establishes framework for global medical-imaging data sharing
Exploring the challenges of representativeness in AI interpretation of medical imaging, a journal published in The Lancet this week introduces the ‘Medical AI Data for All (MAIDA)’ initiative, described as a “framework for global medical data sharing to address the shortage of public health data and enable rigorous evaluation of AI […]
Digital as an enabler in NHS Northamptonshire ICB’s Five-Year Joint Forward Plan 2023-28
Northamptonshire ICB has published its Five-Year Joint Forward Plan, guided by the wider 10-year strategy, which sets out 10 ambitions for everyone in the county to ‘Live Your Best Life’. The plan identifies digital as one of five areas of work which will “deliver the biggest impact” on national and […]
Royal Marsden NHS CIO announces move to Nervecentre
In a LinkedIn post this week (22 November), David Newey announced that he will be leaving his current role as chief information officer at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, to join Nervecentre as director of digital transformation. Speaking on his “six amazing years” at Royal Marsden, David shared that […]
