SBRI Healthcare, in partnership with the Greener NHS programme and the AHSN Network, has launched a new competition to encourage green innovations for a more sustainable healthcare system. ‘Competition 24: Delivering a Net Zero NHS for a Healthier Future’ is aimed at early-stage innovations, and open to single organisations from […]
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Newcastle Hospitals “identifies documents which may not have been sent to GPs”
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a statement on patient-related documentation to state they “are working quickly to review documents from our electronic records” that may not have been sent to GPs. In the statement it notes that following correspondence from the Care Quality Commission in […]
Spain-based health tech supplier partners with Cornwall Partnership NHS FT
Spain-based health tech company, Accexible has partnered with BoxHealth and Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to pilot a “digital system that identifies vocal biomarkers for disease detection and monitoring”. Using voice recognition, the Accexible alert system is said to “detect early stages of cognitive impairment and can also be used […]
Crown Commercial Service awards contract for digital and legacy application services
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has awarded a contract for digital and legacy application services worth an estimated £2,400 million to 23 suppliers. The suppliers include Accenture (UK) Limited; Atos IT Services UK Limited; BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Ltd; BJSS; Capgemini UK plc; CGI IT UK Limited; Conforge UK Limited; […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ prepares for EPR go-live
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT is to go-live with its electronic health record system on Thursday 5 October. The trust will launch the Epic electronic health record, said to “bring together hundreds of different systems”, and also introduce MyChart to support patients with online access to health records. To support the […]
Nourish Care acquires CarePlanner, expanding community care management and support
Digital social care records system Nourish Care has acquired CarePlanner, with the move reflecting Nourish Care’s aims to “adopt a more holistic approach by widening its net and delivering care management and support in the community”. CarePlanner is said to be used by more than 2,000 domiciliary care agencies, whilst […]
Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL develop AI foundation model for ophthalmology
Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have developed an artificial intelligence foundation model for ophthalmology called RETFound, which is said to be capable of detecting markers of disease from retinal images and “can identify some of the most debilitating eye diseases across diverse populations”. The model was […]
Government response to report rejects calls to change pay scales for DDaT staff, but highlights upcoming digital workforce plan
Government ministers have rejected calls to “allow NHS England to move away from Agenda for Change pay scales when recruiting Data, Digital and Technology (DDaT) specialists to ensure it can recruit and retain the people that it needs”, following the recommendation set out in the Health and Social Care Committee’s report […]
Improving data use takes focus in new intermediate care framework for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery
NHS England has published for integrated care boards an intermediate care framework for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery following hospital discharge, with recommended actions for ICBs including improving data use for planning and implementing digital tools to support workforce efficiency. The framework brings together learnings from eight sites across the country […]
Research offers recommendations for research using electronic health records
A study published in Frontiers has proposed a series of challenges and recommendations relating to research using electronic health records, highlighting “five key themes” for the challenges associated with conducting research with EHRs, including developing the research proposal; access and ethical approval; data quality; analysis platform; and generalisability and research […]
