The Greater Manchester Digital Platform has welcomed a new group of health tech suppliers to support the development of its next generation digital platform. The platform is being designed and built to hold, analyse and share information across health, social care and community settings across the region. The successful suppliers […]
Secondary Care
Royal Surrey ICU benefits from mobile tech
Mobile technology from three health tech suppliers has supported staff at Royal Surrey NHS FT deliver safer care during the past months. Utilising smartphones from Ascom, single sign-on from Imprivata and two-way video consultation technology from Attend Anywhere, it has reduced the number of clinicians needed to do ICU ward […]
Leeds Teaching adopts AI stroke imaging tech
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has adopted an artificial intelligence tool to give doctors real-time views of the brain. The RapidAI advanced imaging platform will be used across various sites in its stroke network. The tool is used widely across the world, with Leeds Teaching becoming the first in the […]
East Lancashire Hospitals goes live with Sectra PACS
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) from Sectra. Earlier in the year HTN covered the news of neighbouring trust University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay using the platform. Since then, East Lancashire and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay have connected PACS, […]
Sherwood Forest Hospitals partners with Nervecentre
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Nervecentre to further develop the Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration from the company. In 2019 the trust secured national funding to deploy an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration solution and chose to deploy the technology from Nervecentre. The new partnership announced […]
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership to deploy TPP
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is to deploy TPP SystmOne to its mental health and learning disability services. As part of a five year contract, the trust will deploy the system next year for its 3,400 staff, supporting a population of over one million. The company said a key […]
Somerset NHS FT goes live with Better’s EPMA
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a solution from Better to digitise its e-prescribing and medications management. Somerset Partnership FT and Taunton and Somerset NHS FT recently merged to form Somerset NHS FT and is now using OPENeP from Better, across its surgical services. The trust is also to […]
Morecambe Bay pilots Microsoft mixed reality tech
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT has recently trialed the mixed reality headset, HoloLens 2 from Microsoft, on a respiratory ward during the COVID-19 pandemic. The headsets are supporting staff safely care for patients with coronavirus symptoms, to reduce the need for multiple staff to be in contact with […]
Kent and Medway implements tool to manage COVID-19 care across seven hospitals
A digital dashboard has been utilised across Kent and Medway to consolidate all relevant information for the management of COVID-19 care. The COVID-19 NHS response team at Kent and Medway CCG can now instantly check the availability of staff, beds and crucial equipment used to care for coronavirus patients, thanks […]
Imprivata supports virtual visits with free software
Imprivata has launched a free offering to support healthcare providers with virtual patient visits and communication during COVID-19. The software, GroundControl, has been made available to support interactions between patients, clinicians and close relatives through mobile devices. The tool is being used to support remote communication with care providers, virtual patient visits […]
