Care management software provider Log my Care has announced an additional £3 million in funding from existing investor Mercia Ventures, bringing the total raised to over £7 million and contributing to plans to “further establish Log my Care as a leading supplier to the learning disability sector and help expand its […]
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Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust awards contract for EPR
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected its electronic patient record system, awarding a contract to Insight Direct, subcontracting services to Altera Digital Health. The contract is designed to run for an initial period of five years until March 2029, with an estimated value of £10,631,245.25. The contract award […]
Welsh Ambulance Service tests use of delivering defibrillators via drone
The Welsh Ambulance Service, in partnership with the University of Warwick and SkyBound, is exploring the feasibility of delivering a defibrillator via drone following a 999 call, by a conducting a number of test flights through the Drone-Delivered Defibrillators study. The study, originally funded by Resuscitation Council UK, has received […]
Interview: Peter Kelly, Cynerio’s global head of customer success, on the need to think about cyber security differently
Read the Microsegmentation in Healthcare whitepaper here. Last month HTN covered NHS England’s guidance on network segmentation for cyber security, sharing how segmentation can prevent or mitigate lateral movement across a network in the event of a cyber attack, offering practical tips and advice on the technologies that can be used, […]
Sussex ICS launches digital discharge planner to improve information sharing across teams
Sussex ICS has launched a new digital discharge planner to provide multidisciplinary teams with “immediate access to health information” regarding patients leaving hospital, offering a single source of truth and enabling all providers and organisations involved in a patient’s care to input updates to their care record. The Transfer of […]
Microsoft AI to launch new AI hub in London
Microsoft AI has announced that it will shortly be launching a new Microsoft AI hub in London, marking “significant, long-term investment” in the region and a push to hire “the best AI scientists and engineers” in the field. The hub builds on Microsoft’s recent commitment to upskilling the UK workforce […]
NHSE shares aim to create a single source of truth for community health services in new data plan
NHS England has published its NHS Community Health Services Data Plan, 2024/25 to 2026/27, highlighting challenges around data quality, timeliness and relevance in the community health sector and looking to tackle those challenges by building on existing health data strategies. The long-term vision of the plan is to create a […]
Applications open for latest round of NHS Cancer Programme Innovation Open Call for earlier cancer detection
Applications have opened for round three of the NHS Cancer Programme Innovation Open Call, which aims to “fast-track high-quality, proven, late-stage innovations into front-line settings and address implementation evidence gaps” in early cancer detection. Led by the NHS Cancer Programme and supported by SBRI Healthcare and the Accelerated Access Collaborative, […]
Featured interview: Stefan Chetty of Restore Records Management on the benefits of digitisation and wider management of records
We recently sat down with Stefan Chetty, public sector director of Restore Records Management, for a chat on how the digitisation and wider management of patient records can support patient outcomes as well as freeing up space, time and money. Restore Records Management: the offering Stefan explained that Restore Records […]
Patient portal goes live across pilot specialties at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
A pilot of the MyCare in Warwickshire patient portal has gone live at George Eliot Hospital (GEH) NHS Trust across oral surgery and ear, throat and nose medical specialties, with the trust sharing that the portal is to be rolled out across all outpatient specialties throughout 2024. Once they have […]
