In January, as part of HTN Digital Week, we heard from Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information at Wirral University Teaching Hospital on population health management in the Wirral region. In this webinar Paul discusses the journey and experience that the Wirral team have been on as they have worked to […]
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HTN COVID-19 Webinar Learning Series
HTN is pleased to today launch a new Health Tech Webinar Learning Series to support sharing information and learnings on the role of technology to support the current pandemic. We invite you to attend our first webinar in the series on Wednesday 1st April at 1:30 focusing on population wide […]
AccuRx rolls-out video tool to 25 trusts and thousands of GPs in weeks
On 10th March we reported that AccuRx launched a video consultation tool for GP practices and trusts, following developing the solution over the weekend. The company has now delivered the solution to 25 trusts, with 130 different hospitals testing the solution. Accelerating digital transformation, it has led to over 100,000 […]
Online consultation tools now centrally funded
11 online video tools have been approved as part of the emergency framework to support GP practices to deliver online consultations. There are two frameworks that provide the tools, available through the new emergency Dynamic Purchase framework launched last week and the GP IT Futures framework. NHSX also confirmed this week that […]
NHS makes Microsoft Teams available for free
NHSX, NHS Digital and Microsoft have today announced Microsoft Teams will be made available for free for three months. Microsoft Teams, a communication and collaboration platform will now be free to all NHS organisations, providing online web chat, video conferencing and planning tools. NHS Digital said NHS organisations will have access […]
EMIS makes pharmacy services acquisition
EMIS Group has today announced the acquisition of the company behind the PharmOutcomes platform, Pinnacle Health Partnership LLP. The company said the acquisition is part of the group’s strategy to drive widespread improvements in medicines management and to support pharmacy in providing more clinical services. Over 11,000 pharmacies use the […]
AccuRx launches GP video consultation tool over the weekend
AccuRx, a health tech start up that provides SMS tools to thousands of GPs has launched a new video consultation feature over the weekend. On Friday afternoon last week the company decided to build two new products, the first a video consultation service and the second a pre-appointment template for […]
Uni of Nottingham and FDB partner to roll-out PINCER indicators
The University of Nottingham and FDB have partnered to deliver a key enhancement to its prescribing decision support technology used by thousands of practices. Vital ‘PINCER’ prescribing safety indicators have been introduced to the system to help avoid errors. PINCER is a proven pharmacist-led IT-based intervention to reduce clinically important […]
NHS England seeks national approach to digitising Lloyd George records
NHS England is seeking to develop a national approach to the digitisation of Lloyd George records in GP practices. As part of the GP contract there is a commitment to digitise these records to support a full patient record, free-up space in GP practices and to save staff time. The notice […]
Hancock “better tech is not a ‘nice to have’ but vital to have for the NHS”
In a speech delivered on Tuesday, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock raised technology higher on the agenda than ever before and spoke about the importance of people, standards, leadership and scalability. He talked about leadership and the importance of every CEO leading on digital transformation, backed by […]
