A new standard has been published to support the introduction of digital maternity records that will ensure that record information is consistent and can be shared more easily across healthcare services in England in the future. The new guidance builds on the Healthy Child Record standard, published by the Professional Record […]
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Allscripts appointed to Health Systems Support Framework
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 […]
150 trusts switch to e-referral service
NHS Digital has announced a total of 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have made the move to sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments through the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) and managed to beat the 1 October deadline to fully move to e-RS. Trusts that have already […]
New support for HSLI funding announced by health integration experts
New support by health and social IT integration experts ReStart Consulting, has been announced to support Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) shape their pressing detailed plans for Health System Led Investment (HSLI) funding. Applications for a share of the £412.5m funding pot fall under extremely tight timescales, with STPs required […]
Setting care transfers on FHIR
From October, NHS hospitals are expected to use the new Transfer of Care standard to compile discharge summaries and clinic letters for GPs. NHS Digital has said these will be sent using FHIR messages directly into GP systems. Orion Health experts Dr David Hay and Anne O’Hanlon explain what this […]
A&E clinicians go electronic to ‘transform’ care in South Tees
Thousands of patients are receiving better, safer and speedier emergency care after A&E clinicians in South Tees ditched paper records for Symphony, EMIS Health’s urgent and emergency care system. Chief clinical Information officer and emergency medicine consultant Andrew Adair said: “We never expected that going digital would transform everything about […]
Every GP practice across London successfully makes switch to Electronic Prescription Service
GP practices across London have successfully made the switch to using the Electronic Prescription Service. A total of 1,311 eligible GP practices across London now use the service that means patients’ prescription can be sent directly from their doctor’s surgery to their pharmacist – without the need for paper prescriptions. GP […]
New cancer reminder service to be rolled out across 32 CCGs
Women in London will benefit from a new text messaging service for cervical cancer screening that could potentially be life-saving. The service will be deployed across all 32 CCGs in London and will be rolled out next month. While regular screening has been shown to improve the chances of detecting cervical […]
SBRI Healthcare latest funding to support mental health
SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network, has announced the programme’s latest round of funding is supporting companies to develop novel solutions to tackle the challenges of mental illness. Sharing in £700K investment, the seven successful companies have all demonstrated the potential of their innovations […]
HTN Newsletter July
We released a sneak preview of the agenda for HTN Digital Week, an innovative week to celebrate, share and showcase your work across healthcare technology. We are really pleased with how the agenda is taking shape and remember HTN Digital Week is a week of online events, webinars and content. Register […]
