NHS Digital has announced new funding will demonstrate how predictive analytics and digital information sharing can improve care and support for people needing social care services. NHS Digital has awarded eighteen councils a share of £1.4m to develop digital projects that support social care.  Successful bids include Westminster Council’s plan […]

InterSystems has announced that the InterSystems TrakCare® unified healthcare information system has added a mobile, touchscreen-enabled user interface. The mobile interface supports streamlined electronic medical record (EMR) workflows and delivers context-rich, concise information wherever and whenever it is needed. Clinical notes can be created with a few swipes and taps, images […]

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has deployed CommonTime’s smartphone based Intelligent Paging app to replace 130 pager devices in use by staff across the organisation. The legacy devices were recently retired by the Trust due to the closure of the national Vodafone paging network. Staff who previously carried a pager have been […]

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has hailed a project to improve the accuracy of its outpatient data a success after reporting a near 30% increase in Trust income for outpatient procedures over the last three years. The project, which started in 2015, was commissioned to introduce a more efficient and […]

The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has announced a major adoption of the FHIR interfacing standard to make easier the sharing of health and care information and to stimulate digital innovation. The companies are launching cloud-based platforms which offer customers and authorised third parties a package of open APIs […]

Allscripts has secured a place on the Health Systems Support Framework that has been issued by NHS England. The framework contract has been developed to support the Five Year Forward View and Ten Year Plan agenda of integrated health and care services, population-level analysis and planning, and patient engagement. It will […]

Imprivata®  has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed Imprivata OneSign® Single Sign-On, Imprivata Medical Device Access and Imprivata Authentication Management® platform to deliver real-time patient data to inform clinical decisions and streamline system access without weakening secure practices. The combined solution enables clinicians to securely access the Welch […]

A new research report from CommonTime has discovered the majority of NHS acute trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools. The report highlighted that important steps to prevent staff sharing sensitive information via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other consumer applications were not being taken following responses from […]