Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named as one of just 18 Trusts invited to join a prestigious NHS England programme. The Trust has been selected as part of the second wave of digital pioneers or ‘fast followers’ for the NHS England digitisation programme, securing £5million in funding for […]
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Nottingham University Hospitals benefits from Nervecentre
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has significantly improved patient flow through its organisation following the deployment of a Bed Management solution from Nervecentre Software. The mobile tool – which gives clinical and operations teams real-time visibility of the patient journey, bed inventory and system bottlenecks – has been incrementally […]
Agfa HealthCare and Australian Capital Territory Government sign contract for Territory-wide Enterprise Imaging
Agfa HealthCare has announced that it has won a competitive tender for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Directorate. A three-plus-four-year contract has been signed to supply the Enterprise Imaging platform for the territory-wide healthcare network. The project kicked off in July, 2017, with an expected go-live in the first […]
Patients Know Best and Synertec to streamline patient communication
Patients Know Best (PKB), and innovative mail management supplier, Synertec, have formed a strategic partnership to help the NHS exceed its 5 year target to be paperless at the point of care by 2020. Currently, the NHS sends millions of letters through the post each year to patients before and […]
£30million contract signed for major IT investment at Bolton NHS FT
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has this week signed a major contract to provide enhanced digital solutions to improve patient care and outcomes. The £30million project sees the Trust work with Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Patient Record (EPR) to implement an electronic record of every aspect of a patient’s care. Currently different […]
Mental healthcare provider partners with Advanced to deliver digital transformation project
The UK’s leading mental healthcare charity, St Andrew’s Healthcare, has selected Advanced as its strategic partner to deliver a full digital transformation programme worth several million pounds over five years. Designed to mitigate IT risk whilst driving significant efficiencies, the contract will see Advanced take the charity on an innovative […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announces tech innovations
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been working with the DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator promgramme and CW+ to successfully establish new innovative projects at their hospitals, supporting their digital health innovation and quality improvement strategy. Zoë Penn, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Medical Director said: “The Accelerator has […]
New patient administration system launched
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), which runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has launched its new system OceanoPAS. UHB is one of the 12 NHS trusts designated as an NHS Global Digital Exemplar by NHS England, providing access to up to £10m to invest in digital infrastructure […]
Bridgewater supports successful fully integrated Child Protection Information Sharing pilot using TPP
A ‘first of type’ SystmOne Child Protection – Information Sharing (CP-IS) pilot tested functionality at Leigh NHS Walk-in Centre and showed the benefits of providing clinicians with child protection or safeguarding matters involving patients. CP-IS is a system that enables child protection information to be shared securely between local authorities […]
Ripple Foundation launches its showcase stack
Ripple Foundation has launched its showcase stack encompassing three open source elements – front end UX/UI framework, middleware and backend/data repository. Each component harnesses the power of open source and aims to demonstrate open standards in action to show that there is a different way to provide technology to our care […]