NHS England has released guidance on the requirements of digital technologies supporting virtual wards across integrated care systems, focusing on the approach to procurement along with developing virtual ward specifications. NHSE acknowledges that the digital platform chosen to support virtual wards will depend on local need and maturity. The previously-released […]
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NHSE shares specification for system co-ordination centres, including digital software requirements and metrics to be monitored
NHS England has released its System Co-ordination Centre (SCC) specification framework, building on the minimum viable product for system control centres guidance that it released at the end of 2022 and outlining the purpose, key deliverables and minimum operating requirements for SCCs to meet for winter 2023/24. In terms of […]
£4 million unified pathology reporting solution across the South West planned
A prior information notice for a tender worth an estimated £4 million has been published by 14 NHS trusts across the South West region, for “a single solution that provides a unified reporting experience for pathology”. The solution, according to the notice, should enable the transfer and access of image […]
Microsoft collaborates with Epic to deliver “highly scalable public cloud” Azure Large Instances
Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Epic through the delivery of a Microsoft Azure Large Instances, a “highly scalable public cloud” that is “designed to achieve the scale needed to run a large Epic electronic health record database – up to 50 million database accesses per […]
£13 million from UKRI Technology Missions Fund for 22 AI research projects
The government has announced that £13 million is to be made available from the UK Research and Innovation’s Technology Missions Fund to support 22 health research projects which focus on the use of artificial intelligence to “assist and refine” diagnostics and procedures. The projects are to use AI in a […]
Bon Secours Health Systems invests €25 million for electronic healthcare record system
Bon Secours Health System (BSHS) has partnered with MEDITECH on the launch of a clinical transformation project, Bons Connect, which will see the system’s entire hospital network connected using one electronic healthcare record. Described as “the largest private hospital EPR system in Ireland”, BonsConnect will form part of Bon Secours’ wider €300 […]
Expansion of NHS online matching platform aims to connect more patients with available surgery slots
NHS England has announced an expansion to its online ‘matching’ platform to include cancer, diagnostic checks and outpatient appointments. The platform allows staff to “view and add available surgery slots in hospitals across the country, including independent sector capacity” as part of efforts to allocate patients, and has since January been […]
NICE draft guidance recommends AI technologies to increase contouring efficiency
NICE has published draft guidance to recommend nine technologies to assist in planning treatment for patients undergoing external beam radiotherapy for prostate, lung or colorectal cancers. The technologies can be used to produce “contours” or outlines of the healthy organs, in which NICE estimates 3,750 hours of time could be […]
King’s College London to explore environmental sustainability of AI-enabled digital health
A new research project led by King’s College London seeks to explore the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence enabled health, with a central focus on how “ethical principles can be integrated to improve the sustainability” of digital health systems. The project, ‘Exploring digital health promises and practices through a sustainability […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals seeks to engage market for its Innovation Pop-Up across seven digital areas: virtual care, network infrastructure, patient flow and more
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking to engage the market across seven thematic areas – clinical communications, virtual care, operations, SMART buildings, inpatient central monitoring, patient flow and network infrastructure – with a view to suppliers of digital solutions in these areas exploring the prospect of membership to the trust’s […]
