A new robot used to dispense drugs at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), will save staff four minutes per prescription, totalling two weeks of staff time per month. The new robot nicknamed ‘Rosalind Franklin’ will help staff at Queen’s Medical Centre deliver prescriptions to patients more quickly and effectively. […]
Secondary Care
NHS banned from buying fax machines
Matt Hancock has banned the NHS from buying fax machines and has ordered a complete phase-out by April 2020. NHS trusts will instead be required to invest in new technology to replace outdated systems. The ban on buying fax machines takes effect from January 2019. They will be phased out […]
HTN Exclusive: a closer look into the new platform EMIS-X
Last week HTN announced that EMIS had unveiled EMIS-X their ‘next generation of connected healthcare technology’ platform. Here we take a closer look into the new platform and ask their CTO some questions. Built on a cloud platform, EMIS-X is a new ecosystem that fully supports interoperability standards but goes […]
FHIR APIs link Graphnet’s shared care record to new National Record Locator Service
The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has announced that it has completed the phase one integration of its CareCentric shared care record to the new NHS Digital National Record Locator Service. Adrian Burke, clinical lead for the National Record Locator Service and the CCIO at the CWP, said: “The […]
Regional funding announced for electronic prescribing
13 trusts will be the first to receive a share of £78 million to support electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to improve patient safety. The Trusts awarded funding as part of the first regional allocations are: NHS trust Funding Bolton NHS Foundation Trust £1,020,000 The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust […]
Kettering General Hospital picks Ingenica Solutions
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Ingenica Solutions as its new inventory management solution provider. The project will see the implementation of Ingenica Solutions’ 360 IM across the entire trust to track and trace inventory to the patient level; understanding what products have been used, when, where, and on […]
Alder Hey to digitise patient records with Wellbeing Software
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Wellbeing Software to remove its paper based processes across its services. Alder Hey is implementing the Stratus platform, to scan and replace paper records, making them available alongside other sources of integrated clinical data via the intuitive clinician’s interface. Chris Yeowart, Director […]
Blood test results shared electronically between Royal Papworth and neighbouring CUH
Blood test results from patients at Royal Papworth Hospital can now be sent electronically from the laboratory at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) back to Royal Papworth, thanks to a new link between the different electronic patient record systems used at the two Trusts. The complex link between the two systems […]
East Kent Hospitals goes live with Allscripts PAS
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has successfully switched on its Allscripts PAS in a three-day operation at the start of October. The switch to the new system followed the migration of 42 million records from one system to the other. Andy Barker, IT director at East Kent Hospitals, […]
Populo Consulting eyes digital health growth
Digital health consultancy Populo Consulting has announced the appointment of a Jonah Aburrow-Jones as new managing director. Populo formed two years ago. Since then, it has grown rapidly and works with the Salford, Oxford, and Imperial global digital exemplars, the Mersey Care mental health GDE, and the Manchester local health […]
