A new standard to improve information sharing between community pharmacies and GP practices is now complete, the Professional Record Standards Body has announced. The new standard of a two-part standard, defines the information shared in a standardised way so that information can be shared between different systems more easily. NHS […]
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HTN Digital Week Launched
HTN is delighted to launch HTN Digital Week 2019, a week of online events and information sharing, taking place 10th – 14th June 2019 for the healthcare community. Utilising digital channels HTN Digital Week will provide everyone with an opportunity to share and collaborate on digital health. The Week includes live […]
GDE Salford Royal goes paperless with anaesthetic system
The anaesthetics department at Salford Royal is going digital, following the recent installation of GE Healthcare’s Centricity™ High Acuity Anaesthesia (CHA-A) Information Management Solution – known by clinicians as ‘CHAAS’. Salford Royal, a Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) organisation, is utilising the system to automatically collect data from medical devices at each stage […]
HTN Feature: Interoperability
In our latest feature we focus on interoperability and the exchange of healthcare information. Matt Hancock has been very clear in his intent for technology to revolution health and care, and it seems interoperability is now higher on the agenda than it ever was before. In our interviews with the […]
Patient monitoring technology benefits Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has benefited from technology from Oxehealth which has led to a significant amount of staff time saved and a reduction in falls from its patients, a clinical study has shown. The Digital Care Assistant technology at Manor Hospital’s Pembleton and Stanley wards that cares for inpatients […]
AI-enabled mental health treatment platform goes live
Ieso Digital has announced it will integrate Artificial Intelligence into its therapist platform for the first time. It will enable therapists in the UK and US to receive data-led insights about each patient during the assessment stage of treatment, providing them with predictions of a patient’s presenting condition, severity of […]
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals benefits from clinical audit platform
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is utilising a new clinical audit platform from Meantime IT to reduce the unwarranted variation in care. Clinical audit is a way to realise those opportunities and to find out if healthcare is being provided inline with standards and to understand where there could […]
Leeds Teaching Hospital rolls out video outpatient appointments
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is offering outpatient appointments via video, using the Virtual Clinic platform by Involve Visual Collaboration. The Trust piloted Virtual Clinic with its Radiology team before rolling-out the solution wider. Rob Child, Programme Head of Digital Health Programmes for the Trust said “LTHT have been focused on […]
Alder Hey goes live with eConsent
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with eConsent to digitise the consent process. The solution from Wellbeing Software ensures accurate patient information is consistently captured and the necessary permissions required for any surgical procedure. It enables consent forms to be created dynamically, pre-populated with individual patient demographics and presented to […]
AI research programme launched in London
CAP-AI, a pioneering research programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI), is underway at Barts Life Sciences involving project teams from Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London. The organisations will support London-based Small/Medium Enterprise (SME) with the aim of creating a new product that can be commercialised. Comprised […]
