BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has published a report entitled “Building a clinical satnav for practitioners and patients”, produced by authors Jack O’Sullivan, Jeremy Wyatt and Philip Scott. The report calls for computer-driven support for diagnosis and other clinical decisions to become a mainstream part of the NHS. “There […]
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Northern Care Alliance to assess root cause and lessons learned from IT issues
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed the “IT issues affecting a number of clinical and non-clinical digital IT systems have now been fully resolved.” The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury and Rochdale Infirmary (run by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust), and North Manchester […]
Moderna to build innovation and technology centre in the UK
An agreement has been made between Moderna and the UK government to build a research and manufacturing centre in the UK. The new Innovation and Technology Centre will develop mRNA vaccines for a wide range of respiratory diseases, including vaccines for COVID-19 aimed to protect against multiple variants, and “significantly […]
Nordic region to share unified digital health standards
A digital health and evaluation criteria programme has launched across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland, with an aim to unify digital health standards. Developed to provide standardised regulation or risk management across the Nordic region, as well as supporting the adoption of health technologies on a large scale, the Nordic […]
HTN Now: system-wide access to patient records
At our two-day HTN Now event, focusing on electronic patient records, digital strategy, transformation and change, we were joined by Vijay Magon, CEO of CCube Solutions. Vijay led a session discussing how digital medical records are in daily use, can improve patient care, and save money. He began the session […]
System C appoints Healthcare Managing Director
System C has appointed Guy Lucchi as their new Managing Director of Healthcare, leading the healthcare division with a particular focus on supporting the company’s customers to achieve higher levels of digitisation. Guy Lucchi was previously joint Digital Innovation Director for Health Innovation Manchester and Chief Digital Officer for the […]
HTN Now: Apira on delivering successful EPR investment cases and deployments
As part of HTN Now focusing on electronic patient records (EPRs), we were joined by a team from Apira Ltd, a consultancy support organisation assisting NHS trusts and regional and national NHS organisations with digital transformation projects. The Apira team consisted of Director of Client Engagement David Corbett, Director of […]
Optum set to buy EMIS for £1.2billion
Optum UK, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, is set to acquire healthcare technology company EMIS for £1.2billion. The deal represents 1,925 pence in cash per share, 49 per cent to the closing price of 1,292 pence per share on 16 June 2022, the last business day before the commencement of […]
NHS England opens expressions of interest for Discharge Integration Frontrunner sites
NHS England and NHS Improvement are inviting expressions of interest from local systems to become Discharge Integration Frontrunner sites. The aim of the programme is to develop, design and test new approaches and service models for discharging people from acute care, which could include new funding models, workforce models, or […]
Cardiff University pioneers new virtual treatment for people with PTSD
A team of researchers from Cardiff University have developed a new form of virtual treatment for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), following a large-scale clinical trial. The results of the project entitled, ‘Guided, internet based, cognitive behavioural therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled non-inferiority trial’, have been […]
