The Welsh Government has announced £25 million will be invested in diagnotisc technology across all its health boards. The funding will be used to purchase imaging and diagnostic equipment such as CT scanners, gamma cameras, and MRI and fluoroscopy x-ray imaging rooms. It’s hoped the investment will help healthcare providers […]
Secondary Care
Feature: a data-driven future for healthcare?
The NHS, academics and industry professionals have been relying on data more than ever, to help shape COVID-19 responses, research studies, predict patient demand, identify stranded patients, develop new modernised pathways and improve patient outcomes. Here, we take a look at one of the solutions available to healthcare providers – […]
Alder Hey selects American based AI tool
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with American based AI start-up Diveplane, to explore synthetic data use, whilst ensuring privacy. The specialist children’s hospital is set to use the ‘GEMINAI’ product from the startup based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It uses patented techniques to create new synthetic data […]
PRSB expands pharmacy standards to cover more services
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has updated and expanded its community pharmacy information standard, to reflect a growing range of services offered by community pharmacies. Originally developed in 2018, the standards have recently been updated this year to cover services such as: Services to quit smoking Hypertension testing in the […]
Sussex Partnership picks Civica EPMA
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has signed a new five-year deal with Civica for its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system. The tool forms part of the trust’s digital transformation programme to develop more patient-facing and self-management technology, improve data analytics and interoperability between systems. It means, by accessing the […]
Grimsby hospital goes live with EPMA
Grimsby hospital has today gone live with its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system on its Amethyst Ward and its Stroke Unit. The hospital becomes the third and final of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust’s EPMA programme, following the system going live at Goole hospital in October 2019, […]
NEW HTN Digital Playbook
HTN’s first Digital Playbook has arrived. We’ll be sharing projects, case studies, learnings and solutions from providers and companies at the pinnacle of health tech and digital developments. Available in print and online, our latest publication is intended to be used as a resource to inform and educate about the […]
Digital midwife develops innovative new maternity emergency system
A midwife at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is developing a new allocation system for use in the event of an emergency on its maternity unit. The digital midwife, Caroline Lacy, is building the system – known as an ‘Emergency Role Allocation (ERA) System’ – to help clinicians declare emergencies and […]
NHS announces £160m to combat waiting lists and elective care
The NHS has announced £160m will be made available to ‘accelerator sites’ that support elective care, to speed up recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The investment will help develop a blueprint for elective care going forward and NHS England is also seeking to trial new ways of working in a […]
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS announce integrated care record system
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS has announced plans to go live with an electronic integrated care record system in summer 2021. The ICS, working with local NHS organisations, councils and system suppliers, has launched a programme called ‘One Health and Care record’, to connect healthcare providers with patient records. Health and social […]
