Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with TPP’s e-observations to digitise how staff enter observation data at a patient’s bedside. The Trust’s staff can now enter this information using tablet devices when they need to and it provides a tool to capture observations and measure Physiological Early Warning Scores, […]
Secondary Care
Salford app library adds ORCHA validation
The recently launched app library salford.orcha.co.uk has added a new dimension to its selection of rigoursouly tested apps by highlighting the validation of each app. The collaboration between Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with ORCHA – the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications means the most trusted […]
Innovative brain cancer treatment aid now available
A new treatment aid known as 5-ALA is now available across the country to allow surgeons to identify areas of the brain affected by cancer more accurately. The aid known as ‘the pink drink’ uses fluorescent dye and ultraviolet light to make cancerous cells glow under UV light. This allows surgeons […]
Launch of Coordinate My Care new service
A new NHS online urgent care plan has launched this week, myCMC to empower people with long term conditions and those at the end of their lives are to share vital information and preferences around their care with healthcare professionals. Coordinate My Care has launched its new service, myCMC, powered […]
Interview Series: Neil Darvill, Director of Informatics at North Bristol NHS Trust
In our latest interview we spoke with Neil Darvill, Director of Informatics at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT), to find out more about how the trust is becoming paper free: Where did you first start when you looked to digitise? We had around 1.2 million medical folders stored off-site, with […]
Imprivata publishes new white paper on Digital Transformation in the NHS
Imprivata®, the healthcare digital Identity and access management company, has published a new white paper entitled: Digitally transforming Health and Care in the NHS – A practical guide. You can view the white paper here. The white paper outlines the benefits of Digital Transformation (DX) and gives practical demonstrations of […]
Why Patient Identity is the Catalyst of LHCRE Success
Royston Adamson-Green is the EMEA & APAC Channel Director of Sales for NextGate, the global leader in healthcare identity management. Accurate patient identification is a critical aspect of healthcare delivery in the NHS, especially in the push toward facilitating safe, highly-coordinated, patient-centric health services across the country. With considerable efforts […]
Imprivata introduces IAM cloud platform
Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, has announced it will be creating the first end-to-end Identity and Access Management (IAM) Cloud Platform for healthcare in collaboration with Microsoft. The cloud based platform, anchored by Imprivata’s solutions portfolio and commitment to building trusted digital identities, and the world-class scale and security […]
PRSB publishes new guidance to enable sharing of medicines and prescription information
The Professional Record Standards Body has this week published new guidance to enable the digital sharing of medications information between care settings. The guidance has been produced in collaboration with NHS Endgland and NHS Digital to produce clear information to follow for recording and sharing standardised computer-readable information between hospital, […]
NHS hospitals and GP practices to get fibre optic internet
Matt Hancock has announced plans to ensure every hospital, GP practice and community care service is able to utilise fibre connectivity. As the NHS takes its journey to cloud based web systems, ensuring healthcare organisations are utilising fast connections will be vital. The announcement stated almost 40% of NHS organisations […]
