An online clinician-led psychological family therapy service, which is proven to reduce anxiety levels by 29% and depression levels 35% is being trialled throughout Lincolnshire in collaboration with Healios and Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust (LPFT) thanks to funding and support from the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN). […]
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Empowering laboratories of the future: the urgent need for clinical context
Laboratory professionals must be given detailed clinical information to make decisions on the most effective testing for patients, writes Martin Wilkinson, Director of Product Introduction, Strategy and User Adoption at InterSystems. We can no longer afford for laboratories to be confined to the back office. Laboratories across the world still […]
iMDsoft supports global digital exemplars go paperless
iMDsoft® the clinical information systems provider is working with two of the NHS’s global digital exemplars, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) and West Suffolk Hospital. NHS England recently announced that £100 million is to be made available for global digital exemplars. Dr. Robert Wachter, head of the advisory group […]
New breast care app launched for patients at Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals
On Friday 21st October, members of the hospital’s breast care team joined patients and special guest, journalist and broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire, at Ashford Hospital, to launch a new and innovative mobile app for breast care patients. The app was developed following a project earlier this year, which saw the breast […]
Cleardata invests in production to digitise 18 million documents for Virgin Care
Two new business wins with a combined value of £1 million, including a contract to digitise 18 million documents for Virgin Care, prompted Cleardata to boost its production armoury and invest in two new Kodak i5850S Scanners. Cleardata is the largest single-site user of Kodak Alaris scanners in the UK. […]
Huge time saving made by Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Over 2 years on after deployment, Shaun Fieldhouse — Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Practitioner at Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust reflects on the benefits realised following deployment of TPP SystmOne Community. KEY BENEFITS – The Numbers Efficiency An electronic platform which released approximately 7,587 staff hours per year to focus greater staff […]
NHS England: Mental health digital innovators to apply for new £400k fund
NHS England has launched a new fund to find six to eight innovators to take part in the Digital Development Lab being delivered by mHabitat. The technology that must improve people’s mental health can now apply for a piece of a £400k fund to speed up adoption of their technology. […]
Hicom provides Bedford Hospital NHS Trust with real-time data management
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust has upgraded its adult diabetes care management system to Diamond.NET, from software and consultancy provider Hicom, giving access to patient records wherever and whenever there is patient interaction. The diabetes centre at Bedford Hospital provides both in- and outpatient services to patients with diabetes and endocrine […]
Quicksilvas Summary Care Record Solution Wins Excellence Award
Quicksilva has won the 2016 eHI Award for Excellence in Mobile Healthcare. The award comes after a successful roll-out of the solution to over 450 South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) vehicles as part of the Ortivus Electronic Patient Record implementation. Launched in 2015, the solution was the first Summary Care Record […]
Specialist Information Lifecycle Management delivers Compliance for NHS Trusts
Written by Daniel Hickmore, Health Subject Matter Expert, Arkivum Traditional methods for managing the growing deluge of health data simply do not scale any more. Whether observational, research data or medical, clinical imaging, telemetry data or patient-generated consumer device data, healthcare organisations face increasing risks, compliance obligations and data-related IT […]
