Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital has tested out a ‘Bedside Intelligent Cabinet’ designed to store routine medicines, alert patients or guardians when medication is due, and update staff including notifying them if any medication is missed. Through the trial, families and staff teams have shared suggestions for now the Bedside Intelligent […]
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS to develop digital access solution shaped by citizens
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS has shared that it is in the early stages of creating a digital solution designed to offer citizens personalised support and enhance patient experience, and is seeking feedback on what that solution should look like. The ICS has expressed an intention to improve its understanding of […]
Great Ormond Street Hospital to expand trial of ambient AI to 5,000 patients across healthcare settings
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has shared plans to expand its pilot of ambient AI to 5,000 patients from a range of different healthcare settings across London, following testing in 100 outpatient appointments. The TORTUS assistant automates the process of note-taking during patient appointments, using ambient voice technology and generative […]
East Sussex Healthcare selects preferred supplier for EPR programme EmPoweR
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has selected its preferred electronic patient record supplier for EPR programme EmPoweR, which will be designed to bring together inpatient and outpatient data, ePMA, order comms and theatres into a single EPR. Nervecentre has been selected as the preferred supplier, marking the ninth acute trust […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ trials drone service for urgent medical deliveries
Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust is trialling a new service utilising electronic drones to transport urgent blood samples for patients undergoing surgery who are at high risk of complications from bleeding disorders. The service is currently set to run as a six-month operation, formed as a partnership between […]
Barts Health deploys Cynerio’s cyber security platform across all sites
Barts Health NHS Trust has selected Cynerio’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Platform for deployment across all sites, choosing to implement the full suite including network detection and response for healthcare (NDR-H) technology capable of monitoring network traffic and detecting and responding to threats. The NDR-H tech from Cynerio sits within the hospital’s […]
£71.2 million investment in digital infrastructure approved at Buckinghamshire Healthcare
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust announced this week that it has received approval from NHS England for plans to invest £71.2 million in digital architecture over the next ten years, focusing on removing “legacy paper processes” and modernising patient pathways. With hopes of using the investment to “improve patient safety and […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals appoints new chief clinical information officer
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed a new chief clinical information officer (CCIO), with Steve Bush taking up the role from next week. The trust reports that Steve brings over 20 years of experience as a consultant in emergency medicine at Leeds, with previous roles including medical director for […]
Somerset NHS FT publishes AI Policy; covering safe integration, ethics, legal responsibilities, yearly reviews
In a LinkedIn post yesterday, Andy Mayne, chief scientist for data, operational research & artificial intelligence at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, shared the trust’s final version of its AI policy, focusing on the need for safe integration and an approach balancing innovation with ethical and legal responsibilities. Ensuring that the […]
VR treatment for patients with psychosis to be piloted at South West London and St George’s
A hypnotherapy-based virtual reality treatment is to be piloted at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, with aims to help ease symptoms including hallucinations and delusions in patients with psychosis. The VR headsets will be used in the trust’s rehabilitation wards to support patients in engaging […]
