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Digital Health and Care Wales’ organisational strategy 2024-2030: in focus
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) recently published its organisational strategy for 2024-2030, framed around five key missions: to provide a platform for enabling digital transformation, to deliver high quality digital products and services, to expand the digital health and care record and the use of digital to improve healthcare, […]
Norfolk and Waveney ICS shares update on Joint Forward Plan, including data used to map progress
Norfolk and Waveney ICS has shared an update on the progress made around aims set out in the ICS’s five-year Joint Forward Plan, including how data is being used to measure progress and completion of ambitions. The ICS has recently published its population health management strategy and a health inequalities strategy, […]
West Yorkshire ICB appoints new chief digital and information officer
West Yorkshire ICB has announced the appointment of a new chief digital and information officer (director of digital), with Shaukat Ali Khan joining the ICB’s leadership team from autumn 2024. Shaukat has had an international career “across strategic and operational IT disciplines” in the healthcare, education, pharmaceutical, humanitarian, hospitality and […]
Electronic referral service for community opticians launched in Coventry and Warwickshire
A new system-wide electronic referral service for community opticians has been launched across Coventry and Warwickshire, enabling opticians to send referrals for patients in need of further investigation or treatment to a single point of access in the Coventry and Warwickshire Ophthalmology Co-ordination Service (OCS). Previously, opticians would be required […]
Industry view: what does the health tech landscape look like at present?
What does the health tech landscape look like at present? Here at HTN, we sought to gain an understanding of the landscape as it stands now, in July 2024, ahead of the upcoming election and any changes that may bring. We put out a call to comment asking for thoughts […]
Join HTN for live webinars over the summer, from getting the most out of your EPR to cyber security strategy
As we look ahead to the second half of 2024 we’ve plenty of virtual events lined up on HTN’s calendar, with digital healthcare leaders from across the industry joining us to share insights, learnings and best practice on topics from electronic patient records to cyber security to virtual wards. Let’s […]
National Data Guardian panel focuses on DSPT, cyber assessment framework and national data opt-out reform
The national data guardian panel met recently, to discuss updates on the data security and protection toolkit (DSPT), cyber assessment framework and national data opt-out reform. With the NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care plan to implement the cyber assessment framework within the DSPT, the panel discussed […]
Queen Victoria Hospital awards £495k contract for CDC digital infrastructure
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth an estimated £495,000 to clinical infrastructure specialist Feedback, for the provision of the Bleepa Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) solution. Bleepa is a clinician-facing platform that sits on top of Feedback’s CareLocker product as a data layer, providing clinical results […]
Panel discussion: David Hammond, deputy chief strategy officer at Wirral Community and Julia Lake, associate director for digital (data) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals on bringing data to life
For a recent HTN Now panel discussion, we were joined by David Hammond, deputy chief strategy officer at Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Julia Lake, associate director for digital (data) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to talk about how their organisations are currently using data, […]
