Nervecentre’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution has gone live across Nottingham University Hospitals. The City Hospital went live with the system in May, across two weekends, and Queen’s Medical Centre moved to the new system earlier this month. It means the hospitals have moved away from a paper process to the […]
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£21 million in funding for AI announced “to roll out artificial intelligence across the NHS”
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £21 million in funding for artificial intelligence technologies. It’s intended to enable the roll-out of AI technology which, according to the announcement, will “help diagnose patients more quickly for conditions such as cancers, strokes and heart conditions”. The announcement sets out the […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals agrees cancer data partnership
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has partnered with Flatiron Health UK to utilise cancer data for research and to explore the possibilities in developing and improving cancer care. The project sets an ambition to improve the quality of cancer data, and to translate cancer patient records at Leeds into ‘high-quality data’. The […]
NHS England appoints chief information officer
NHS England has appointed a new chief information officer, with key responsibilities to include running and developing the NHS’s critical technical infrastructure and managing cyber security for national services. John Quinn comes to the role following his previous role as executive director of IT operations and enterprise services for NHS […]
£31 million funding announced for UCL’s disability innovation hub
UCL announced last week that its Global Disability Innovation Hub has successfully secured £31 million investment from UK Aid, a funding programme which is part of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. The funding announced for UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub will help the programme to develop its policy […]
Remote monitoring pilot for cancer patients in Dorset
Inhealthcare has partnered with NHS Dorset for the launch of Oncology Monitoring @ Home, a remote monitoring service aiming to help patients to manage their symptoms from home along with providing them with self-care advice. Through the service, patients undergoing chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatment are supplied with devices such as […]
60 hospitals across Catalonia to introduce openEHR medication management platform
The Catalan Health Service has partnered with a consortium led by T-Systems and Better, to introduce Better Meds, the electronic prescribing and medication administration system. To be implemented across 60 hospitals across Catalonia, the project has been described as the “largest ever single Better Meds project” and will see the openEHR standard […]
Examining the performance of AI in the analysis of chest X-rays
A study published in Nature earlier this year centres around the AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray from Siemens Healthineers, an artificial-intelligence based application used to analyse chest X-rays. The study examines the effectiveness of the AI-Rad, its key benefits and features as well as any potential drawbacks and concerns from a […]
The role of digital in the 2023 mandate for NHS England
The government has published their mandate to NHS England, setting out their objectives for 2023 onwards. In the foreword from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay states: “We need to enable the health service to deliver and recover in two key ways; through supporting innovation […]
East Lancashire Hospitals goes live with EPR
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with its electronic patient record system over the weekend. The programme, known as ‘eLancs’, is designed to improve patient care by replacing paper-based notes and records with digital tools, including introducing a new electronic patient record system across its hospitals. Highlights of the […]
