Fast growing start-up Healthera, is one of just five innovations in the UK to be awarded funding as part of NHS England’s £4.3 million investment initiative in new technologies that ease pressure on urgent and emergency care services. With accident and emergency pressures increasing and waiting times reaching their highest […]
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2017: the year of e-health
The potential of e-health to bring about total change to the way we plan and deliver health brings new demands for true interoperability, new leadership skills and a global search for solutions. The next 12 months will see significant innovation across health and care and with true benefits for patients. […]
New call for better engagement on health and care IT
Health and care professionals working in the UK recognise the potential of IT to improve patient safety and promote efficient care, but find it hard to learn and share best practice in healthcare IT with other organisations. Emerging from a study by HIMSS Europe, these findings show that health and […]
Summary Care Record now used in 50% of community pharmacies
A major milestone has been achieved after uptake of the Summary Care Record among community pharmacies in England reached 50%. This represents nearly 6,000 pharmacies using the functionality, which provides key clinical information about a patient, sourced from the GP record. The achievement comes only a year after NHS Digital […]
Interview: North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs
What digital challenges do we face? What TECS projects are we working on at the moment, and what benefits do we expect to achieve? Over the past year which TECS project are we most proud of? Like many CCGs North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs cover diverse areas of urban and […]
Opinion piece: IMS MAXIMS CMO Prof. Michael Thick
Achieving service transformation: resolve the digital paradox Initiatives to accelerate innovation to the frontline are welcome, but details around funding, technology assessments and integration need ironing out to make rapid health transformation a reality, says IMS MAXIMS chief clinical information officer and chief medical officer Prof. Michael Thick. Accelerating the […]
App for young onset dementia
A new resource has been developed by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust for younger people who have been diagnosed with dementia. It is a digital “app” which can be downloaded free of charge on to a mobile phone or tablet computer. It brings together up to date information, advice, and inspiration […]
West Midlands child health departments go live with System C
Child health records for 1.4 million children living across the West Midlands region are now being held on System C’s CarePlus software following a rapid succession of successful deployments. This has been achieved just 8 months after System C signed a contract with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust to implement […]
Charting the future of mental health services on spotlight at ehi LIVE 2016
Experts from government departments and healthcare providers to discuss how technology can be harnessed for better mental health services Digital advancements are urgently needed to improve the provision of mental health services in the UK, experts are to urge at the upcoming ehi LIVE 2016 conference in Birmingham, 1st-2nd November. […]
iMDsoft supports global digital exemplars go paperless
iMDsoft® the clinical information systems provider is working with two of the NHS’s global digital exemplars, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) and West Suffolk Hospital. NHS England recently announced that £100 million is to be made available for global digital exemplars. Dr. Robert Wachter, head of the advisory group […]
