Four NHS hospital trusts have become the first in England to make the switch to a new digital portal that allows patients to receive and respond to appointment letters digitally – potentially saving the NHS millions in postage costs every year. Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was the first to […]
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Roll-out approved for Docman 10
NHS Digital has approved the roll-out Docman 10 following a rigorous process as part of the GP Systems of Choice (Lot One) framework that centrally funds the provision of GP IT systems in England. Their successful First of Type phase over the past few months has seen a number of […]
Evergreen Life App surpasses 250,000 users
Evergreen Life, the App that allows people to manage their health and wellness by placing their personal health record at their fingertips, has surpassed 250,000 users. It is the first app to satisfy the assessment criteria on the NHS Apps Library that offers patient-facing services across all three major GP […]
Feature: Robin Modak, CEO, Genmed
Money is needed but the procurement process has to radically change to deliver the kind of efficient and cost effective NHS service we all deserve ‘We will put more money into the NHS, but there isn’t a magic money tree we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people […]
21 teams selected to put innovative ideas into practice
The Health Foundation has selected 21 new projects to be part of the sixth round of its £1.5 million innovation programme, Innovating for Improvement. Innovating for Improvement aims to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services. The […]
Bridgewater supports successful fully integrated Child Protection Information Sharing pilot using TPP
A ‘first of type’ SystmOne Child Protection – Information Sharing (CP-IS) pilot tested functionality at Leigh NHS Walk-in Centre and showed the benefits of providing clinicians with child protection or safeguarding matters involving patients. CP-IS is a system that enables child protection information to be shared securely between local authorities […]
Clanwilliam Group acquires Medisec Software
A rapidly expanding group of health technology companies has added another established NHS technology provider in a drive to support digitisation ambitions across the UK health service. Medisec Software, which has been working with NHS organisations for 25 years to digitise clinical correspondence and dictation, has been acquired by Clanwilliam […]
North West trusts take ‘giant leap’ in connecting diagnostics across hospitals
Two NHS trusts in the North West of England have taken the lead in breaking down barriers between diagnostic departments and frontline clinical staff, in a move that healthcare professionals say is changing how they can view and diagnose patients, and that is improving collaboration between hospitals across the region. […]
Build healthcare apps in hours, not months
Inhealthcare has announced a major breakthrough in programming technology that will allow doctors to build and launch their own health apps. The company has invented an easy-to-use toolkit that provides a simple set of building blocks for the rapid development and deployment of services for the NHS. The powerful toolkit […]
Second phase GP Data Hub goes live
Following the successful rollout of the GP Data Hub in April, the second phase is now complete, seeing a range of new functionality added to the original system. The GP Data Hub provides an online repository of statistics about individual GP practices in England and offers journalists, patients, charities and […]
