York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Patchwork to trial a new clinical staffing solution for their medical workforce. The technology is set to increase bank fill rates, reduce staffing costs and reduce administrative processes with its solution that instantly connects clinicians to vacant bank shifts through an app, enabling Trusts to […]
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IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions partner
IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions have announced a partnership to offer mobile provider-to-provider and provider-to-patient communications to NHS organisations, GP practices and patients. The partnership aims to support NHS organisations move away from outdated technologies and remove paper correspondence within and between organisations and with patients. Shane Tickell, Chief […]
NHSX to mandate health tech standards
NHSX has announced it wants to assemble a world-class team of technical experts to help solve some of the biggest technology challenges in health and care. It will soon begin recruiting a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to design and deliver a new Internet-based technical architecture for all of the NHS […]
Mental healthcare provider utilises ePMA to save time
Specialist mental healthcare provider St Andrew’s Healthcare has introduced a new electronic prescribing and medicines administration system (ePMA) system from EMIS Health. The provider has seen a 50% drop in prescription-related errors since rolling out the system and a reduction in nursing time spent administering drugs to patients. The system […]
Great North Care Record teams up with Cerner
The Great North Care Record for the North East and North Cumbria has chosen Cerner to connect patient information across the region’s hospitals, mental health services, social care, GPs and community services and ambulance services. This means all services and their staff will have access to the relevant information at hand, […]
Derby starts deployment of ePMA
Royal Derby Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has started its e-prescribing and medicines administration journey with DXC Technology’s Lorenzo. The initiative is part of the Trust wider digital programme that will better alert doctors to genuine prescribing dangers, electronically link patient information and […]
Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care pilot extended for a year
The Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project has been extended for another year with a extra 1.48 million to be invested. The additional funding takes the total funding to £4.9m for 11 organisations from Liverpool’s hospitals, council, universities and technology SMEs creating new 5G supported health technologies. Rosemary Kay, Liverpool 5G […]
Hull shares records with social care workers
A new project in Hull has allowed audit social care workers access to view resident care records through the integrated health record in the area. Members of staff from the Hull City Council’s adult social care team now have access to the system, allowing them to view information generated from […]
New AI able to identify and predict the development of cancer symptom clusters
In the first study of its kind, published by Nature Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of Surrey and the University of California detail how they used Network Analysis (NA) to examine the structure and relationships between 38 common symptoms reported by over 1300 cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The new […]
Insource releases new patient pathway application
Insource has announced enhancements to its Patient Pathway Plus solution utilised by NHS trusts for integrated management of elective care pathways. The company has worked with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to make improvements including user experience improvements and improved filtering of huge […]
