At a recent edition of HTN Now we heard from Nick Weston, Chief Commercial Officer for Intelligent Lilli, along with their Chief Care Officer Fiona Brown, for a discussion on where and how to deploy care technology to positively impact the whole system. Fiona began by acknowledging the current pressures […]
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TPP letter to the NHS “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated”
Frank Hester, OBE, founder and CEO of TPP, has taken to social media to share a letter to the NHS on his views of the costs of electronic patient record systems. TPP has commented that “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated” and “call for a time […]
Discussion: Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust on their approach to waitlist validation
We were joined by James Rawlinson, CIO at South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw ICS and Director of Informatics at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, along with Helen Williams, Transformation Lead at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, for a live panel discussion on their approach to validating their waiting lists. On projects […]
UK Research and Innovation pre-announce funding opportunity to accelerate health research
A funding opportunity has been pre-announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to develop innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies which can be applied to health challenges. It aims to bring researchers together across contrasting sectors and disciplines in order to change how health research is conducted. Projects are expected to […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and CW+ launch updated hand therapy app
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (CWH) NHS Foundation Trust and their official charity CW+ have launched a new version of their app Hand Therapy: The Exercise Prescription App. It forms part of the CW Innovation programme which is being led by the trust and CW+ with the aim of identifying and […]
New eye-care electronic referral system to launch across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System is to launch a new electronic eye-care referral system between optometrists and ophthalmology service providers. The system has been procured by NHS England and is set to be launched across the integrated care system early next year. It will replace “a range of […]
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber community teams pilot patient communication tech
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) has completed a six-month pilot to digitise processes and patient experiences across its community service teams. The pilot aimed to improve communication between primary and secondary services, and support community teams such as podiatry, epilepsy and diabetes teams with patient messaging, video […]
Industry view: what is the biggest benefit an ICS will derive from deploying technology?
For our latest industry view piece, we posted two questions to our health tech audience. We’ll be sharing the responses we received in a two-part feature, the first of which focuses on the following question: what is the biggest benefit that an ICS will derive from deploying technology? Here’s what […]
HTN Now: Apira on incorporating new models of care delivery into digital systems
For our HTN Now: Citizen Transformation event, we were joined by a team from Apira consisting of Head of Procurement Richard Scowen, Director of Client Engagement David Corbett, Clinical Lead and Transformation Manager Claire Doughty, and Director of Professional Services Alan Brown. The team set out to discuss how patient […]
Epic to launch website for suppliers to share interoperability
Epic, the electronic health record supplier, has shared plans to launch a website where health tech suppliers can self-report interoperability. Suppliers will be able to list their innovation and report if they have achieved successful data exchange with Epic. It is open to any tech vendor with an aim for […]
