A diagnostic medical device used to improve diagnosis of cervical cancer and pre-cancer in women referred to colposcopy clinics, has been adopted for use by Medway NHS Foundation Trust. ZedScan’s patented Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) platform technology is said to detect cervical abnormalities, or pre-cancerous changes, before they develop into […]
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Community trust to introduce patient flow tech across 6 hospitals
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has signed a deal with Alcidion to implement the company’s patient flow tech. The community trust is set to introduce Miya Flow to provide interactive dashboards across its six community hospitals, and support staff with live data to manage bed capacity, visibility […]
The Christie selects software engineering partner
The Christie NHS FT has partnered with Aire Logic to utilise the company’s software engineering, dev-ops and architecture expertise services, as part of a £1.6m deal. The partnership will support the trust to modernise its in-house electronic health record (EHR), taking an approach to ‘separate the data layer’, that aligns […]
Greater Manchester launches pilot to address digital poverty for care leavers
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has launched a new pilot supporting care leavers in Salford, by encouraging them to get online. The pilot is now live to support 40 care leavers, containing a package of support that will include free devices through Salford Council, free data for 12 months and […]
Feature: Sussex ICS community diagnostic centres
As we’ve launched our new Integrated Care Systems (ICS) channel, we wanted to explore some practical digital solutions and programmes that are supporting new pathways and models of working, across a local healthcare system. Here we focus on community diagnostic centres (CDCs), delving into what this model looks like and the opportunities […]
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT accredited as GDE
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT has announced the formal accreditation from NHS England as a Global Digital Exemplar, and confirmation its achieved HIMSS EMRAM level 5. The trust embarked on the programme in 2017, when selected as one of seven mental health trusts to receive funding to become a Global Digital […]
128 successful bids to the Digital Maternity Fund
NHS England and Improvement’s Digital Maternity Fund has awarded 128 bids funding to support the digitisation of maternity services across England. Some of the trusts to secure funding include Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT who have been awarded £208,000, Birmingham Women’s Hospital awarded £500,000, and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over […]
Two London trusts to share EPR
Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, two trusts which are part of a recently formed hospital group, have announced plans to share their electronic patient record (EPR) system.The trusts have signed contracts with Cerner to provide a shared electronic patient […]
Leeds Teaching introduces AI into breast imaging service
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has introduced artificial intelligence software from Densitas, to evaluate the technical quality of mammograms. The breast imaging service at the trust is believed to be the first in the UK to introduce the technology from the Canadian software company. The tool has been customised for the […]
Developing digital integrated growth chart data at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Over the past few years, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) has utilised digital child growth chart data, by integrating its Clinical Workstation Portal with a solution from CCube Solutions. Aneurin Bevan was the first health board within NHS Wales to procure technology from CCube Solutions, as it sought to […]
