Health Innovation Manchester has opened applications for the 2020-2021 Momentum Innovation Fund, making £300,000 available to innovations in healthcare. The fund aims to accelerate innovations supporting clinical management post COVID-19 and to support the development of solutions for clinical or remote management of patients leaving hospital care or with long-term conditions. Innovators can […]
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National project to connect 114 prisons to NHS hospitals
NHS England and NHS Improvement have signed a new national agreement with health tech supplier Visionable to provide its video platform to connect hospitals and prisoners. The platform was rolled out initially in March to support one prison and it will now be adopted wider to 114 prisons and young offender institutions, […]
Video: Collaborative working, the new working practice for healthcare
In this session Paul Tsang, Head of Collaboration from Redcentric talks about how the recent rapid adoption of ‘collaboration tools’ such as Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex can be part of your permanent new ways of working and how you can get the most out of these tools and move […]
Royal Devon and Exeter’s Epic go-live week
By David Kwo, EPR consultant and researcher, who provides a first-hand account of the EPR implementation and go-live at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. David has supported the trust as an external EPR assurance agent and advisor. On Saturday 10 October, at 4:45am, the Royal Devon and […]
Kent Community goes live with Rio EPR
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has gone live this month with the core part of the electronic patient record from Servelec. The trust is also in the process of implementing Servelec’s cloud-based interoperability platform Conexes, to share data between systems and apps. The first phase of the EPR programme […]
Single Electronic Patient Record planned across Lancashire and South Cumbria
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) has announced plans to move to a single electronic patient record across the region. The procurement is being led by the Lancashire Procurement Cluster (hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust), with the programme to include Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East […]
Kettering General publishes cloud-first policy strategy
Kettering General Hospital NHS FT has published its cloud-first policy, part of the digital strategy for the organisation, outlining its plans to achieve a zero or minimal data-centre footprint by July 2024. Its cloud-first strategy highlights that from next year the trust will not look to procure new services that […]
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS FT goes live with EPIC over the weekend
At 4:45am on Saturday 10th October, the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust went live with EPIC, under the name MY CARE. The trust said the programme was the biggest clinical transformation programme they have ever undertaken, two and a half years in the making to the point of go-live. […]
Greater Manchester signs with Sectra for diagnostic imaging initiatives
8 NHS trusts across Greater Manchester are to adopt medical imaging technology from Sectra, following a new contract signed this month. The platform aims to transform how healthcare teams access and review images, supporting up to four million examinations per year. The first trust is to go live this year, with […]
Oxford University Hospitals hits 100% digitisation of surgical histology slides
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust, with support from Royal Philips, has fully digitised its cellular pathology (histopathology) department. One of the early adopters of the technology, all surgical histology and referral slides within the cellular pathology department are now digital and available between OUH and its wider network […]
