Health and care leaders have come together to develop a Long Term Plan to make the NHS fit for the future, and to get the most value for patients out of every pound of taxpayers’ investment. The plan highlights technology as being instrumental in delivering on its ambitions and aims for the […]
Secondary Care
University Hospitals Birmingham selects Carestream
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Carestream’s medical imaging solutions to support co-ordinated, collaborative care across the Trust’s hospital site. The solutions will provide workflow management, clinical repository, diagnostic and image distribution functions as well as analytics applications to simplify medical image management and empower effective integration of services across sites for enhanced […]
Boots UK acquires Wiggly-Amps
Boots UK has announced the acquisition of Wiggly-Amps Limited, a health technology company providing solutions that enable patients and their GPs to better manage their prescription needs. Boots UK the largest pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer with over 20,000 healthcare providers and over 6,500 pharmacists has acquired the company to […]
NHS Education for Scotland launches tech guideline learning resource
NHS Education for Scotland has launched the ‘Introduction to Technology Enabled Care’ (TEC) learning resource to address the recommendation for a national approach to learning and development from the research report – ‘Supporting Scotland’s Workforce’. The learning resource is available free of charge and is aimed at staff in the […]
SW England deploys System C CarePlus
A single child health information system spanning the whole of South West England from South Gloucester to the Isles of Scilly, has successfully gone live based on System C’s CarePlus child health software. The system manages the records of 710,000 children, logging the health status of individual children and the […]
Imaging innovation and AI raising the spirits of UK radiology
A new survey from Canon Medical Systems UK has highlighted innovation and AI as what enthuses radiographers and radiologists the most, followed by imaging improving patient outcomes (27%) and the use of diagnostic imaging replacing invasive clinical procedures (21%). The greatest challenges currently facing radiologists and radiographers were cited as staffing […]
New contract for Welsh national clinical benchmarking and analytics systems awarded to CHKS
CHKS has been awarded a new contract for the provision of an all Wales national and Health Board clinical benchmarking and analytics system. The system called iCompare will help the NHS organisations in Wales identify areas of good, and poor performance and encourage the sharing of best practice. CHKS will […]
NHS hits e-referral and NHS Spine milestones
NHS Digital has announced the NHS e-Referral Service has hit 100 million bookings and the NHS Spine has reached one billion transactions. Currently the e-referral service is booking around 400,000 referrals every week. The announcement from NHS Digital comes as new guidance has been launched for GPs to ensure they are […]
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust adopts FHIR standards
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recently implemented SMART® on FHIR® APIs within their Cerner EHR. Open standards have been developed to simplify integration within health and social care, making it easier to write complementary applications to enhance the functionality of the electronic health record. The use of common standards and open application […]
New report provides insight into digital uptake in maternity services
A new report from NHS Digital shows the majority of maternity providers are making a good start at using digital technology, according to the Maternity Digital Maturity Assessment report. All 135 maternity providers completed an assessment of their progress in adopting digital technology, such as providing electronic health records, sharing information digitally […]
