Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £1.2 million contact with CCube Solutions to transform the way patient records are stored. The trust has partnered with the company to adopt its Electronic Document & Records Management System which has proven successful at other trusts. The trust said “the […]
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Healthcare Gateway supports OneLondon LHCRE
As part of the OneLondon Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) programme, the MIG from Healthcare Gateway, has been expanded to support healthcare teams access information on vulnerable patients with COVID-19 symptoms. Urgent care staff across London can now access around 8 million GP records, following an initiative to expand the […]
Industry View: Healthcare experts react to the NHS clinical communication tools contract
NHSX last month launched its Clinical Communications Procurement Framework and announced the 25 suppliers that were successful. The framework was launched to help organisations remove pagers and quickly adopt clinical facing communication and task management tools that have been through an NHSX assessment process. HTN asked the industry and some of the […]
Information sharing platform roll-out accelerated to support clinicians
An information sharing platform has been deployed across Dudley months ahead of a planned go live. The Allscripts dbMotion platform, was due to be deployed this summer, following testing and a proof of concept with local GPs. To support clinical teams access vital information, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust […]
South coast trusts to share millions of diagnostic images
A group of NHS trusts around the south coast of England have signed a deal with technology provider Sectra, to share and access diagnostic imaging. The trusts will move to Sectra’s vendor neutral archive to share, access and manage millions of images. Known as SWASH, the consortium includes Portsmouth Hospitals NHS […]
CCube Solutions launches Service Delivery Platform
CCube Solutions, a specialist in supporting healthcare providers with electronic document management, has launched a hosted document delivery platform to support remote working and the ‘new normal’. The new platform offers a secure hosted service for sending digital files and provides time-limited access to information, independently of any IT system. […]
Feature: COVID-19 phase 3 recovery report
A letter issued by NHS boss, Sir Simon Stevens and Amanda Pritchard, NHS Chief Operating Officer, has explained the third phase of the NHS’s response to COVID-19 and the health service’s priorities which has raised concerns amongst health experts that targets may not be met, a report published today by […]
Civica acquires information specialist InfoFlex
Civica has announced the acquisition of Infoflex, an information management system used by over 65 specialities across 130 trusts. The idea for InfoFlex came from CEO, Marc Warburton’s experience in cancer research and clinical trials. Marc said to HTN last month “During my work in cancer research I would track the […]
Kettering publishes health intelligence strategy
Kettering General Hospital NHS FT has published its new health intelligence strategy, outlining plans to July 2023. A key area of focus in the intelligence strategy is to provide data and information to support staff to make information-led decisions and it sets out the ambition of the trust to become the […]
Royal Cornwall NHS Trust adopts AI location tech
Royal Cornwall NHS Trust has adopted location tech from Navenio as part of its digital transformation strategy. Navenio, a spin-out of Oxford University, is providing its location-based hospital workforce platform to support clinical imaging assistants, radiology portering and service support. It can be used to assign tasks to healthcare teams based on […]
