The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust’s latest board meetings in January and March, to see what insight they offered on ongoing digital transformation projects, digital priorities, innovations, challenges, and more. Approving NCA’s EPR business readiness and business plan is listed in the trust’s objectives for the year, as part […]
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Somerset NHS Foundation Trust goes live with OX.DH virtual consultations
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with OX.DH, a health tech supplier affiliated with the University of Oxford, to introduce a new virtual consultations solution. Somerset FT incorporates acute, community and mental health and disability services across Somerset as well as Symphony Healthcare Services which runs a quarter of GP […]
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare awards £102,000 deal for solution to support Talking Therapies
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has announced a contract award of £102,000 for a one-year deal to London-based Dr Julian Medical Group Ltd for Talking Therapies third party provision. The notice shares that the trust required an “innovative, efficient, and effective solution to support and enhance […]
AI tool tested to automate biopsy analysis for coeliac diagnosis in Cambridge
A research programme in Cambridge, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, is supporting Lyzeum Ltd, a spinout from the University of Cambridge, to commercialise its AI tool that aims to accelerate coeliac diagnosis. Led by Professor Liz Soilleux, honorary consultant pathologist at CUH and professor of […]
Greater Manchester Mental Health awards £572,000 patient engagement portal contract
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth £572,000 to DrDoctor for the provision of a patient engagement portal. In a contract award notice published last week, the trust shared details of the contract award, described as the “provision of services for patient engagement tools, consumables, […]
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS FT introduces digital coaching tool
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced digital health coaching app, Surgery Hero to help patients prepare for surgery. Using AI, Surgery Hero “quickly and accurately” identifies patients who may need additional support before and after an operation, with an aim to “reduce the risk of complications before a […]
Cambridge University Hospitals goes live with instant shared care record access from EPR
On Tuesday this week Cambridge University Hospitals went live to provide teams with “instant access” to their region shared care record directly from the trust’s Epic EPR. In what Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS is noting as “a major milestone” in the roll-out of the shared care record, access is granted […]
Cambridge University Hospitals introduces tool enabling EHR data to be transferred to research databases
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has introduced a tool for EHR data to be transferred to research databases or electronic data capture software for use in clinical trials, in a move the trust hopes will allow researchers to spend “more time on clinical research rather than data entry”. The Archer […]
Salisbury NHS FT quarterly strategy focuses on EPR, large agenda of digital projects, resource challenges
A quarterly strategy update from Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has shared progress on delivering digital care, highlighting progress around EPR, developing digital skills, upgrading infrastructure and connectivity, as well noting a large agenda of projects involving digital which are “not resourced, funded or prioritised”. Associate director of strategy Tony Mears, […]
Sussex Community procures £275,000 exercise prescription software service
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth £275,000 to London-based Physitrack PLC for the provision of an exercise prescription software service. The platform is said to enable physiotherapists to create “customised home exercise programs” with “easy-to-follow” videos to promote adherence, pain tracking, and progress monitoring features. According […]
