Cloud communications specialists X-on got the HTN Digital Primary Care conference underway last week by delivering our opening industry session. The company’s talk focused on how cloud telephony can support primary care providers with managing call demand, as well as remote consultations and other services. We were joined for this […]
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Devon ICS plans integration of EPRs
The Integrated Care System (ICS) for Devon has outlined plans for system-wide integration of its electronic patient record (EPR) systems. Four projects form part of the ICS’s transformation programme, which include to implement a single EPR for Devon Hospices, focus on paperless working, provide system-wide access to primary care information […]
Video: Katherine Church, Chief Digital Officer, from Surrey Heartlands CCG at HTN Digital Primary Care
At HTN Digital Primary Care 2021, we welcomed Katherine Church, Chief Digital Officer at Surrey Heartlands CCG to discuss the organisation’s approach to digital primary care. Katherine started the presentation by providing the audience with some context to her role, and her responsibilities as Chief Digital Officer: “My role is […]
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator open to applications from next cohort of health tech innovators
DigitalHealth.London has opened applications for its Accelerator programme, with the aim of finding the ‘next generation of digital health companies’ that can help ‘transform’ healthcare. The flagship scheme, an NHS delivered programme, is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and has provided a platform for a number of digital […]
Feature: How data capture through inventory management can enable interoperability
Nick Roots and Liz Ward of Prospitalia h-trak, a healthcare information company working with the NHS and private hospitals, took time out recently to chat to HTN for our latest feature on interoperability. Focusing on how accurate data capture can enhance interoperability within hospitals, they shared a case study on […]
Video: Dr John Parry, Clinical Director, and Dr Matt Curtis, Clinical Director from TPP, from HTN Digital Primary Care
At HTN’s first-ever Digital Primary Care conference we were joined by Dr John Parry, Clinical Director, and Dr Matt Curtis, Clinical Director from TPP, the company behind SystmOne. Dr. Parry started the discussion by providing an update on TPP’s work to develop their products for the upcoming flu season: “The […]
Video: Dr Ursula Montgomery keynote on the ‘future of general practice’ at HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Ursula Montgomery, a GP and Senior Clinical Advisor for Primary Care at NHS England and Improvement, stepped up to deliver the first HTN Digital Primary Care keynote speech on the future of general practice, in our second live talk of the day. After doing a “stock take” of the […]
National survey highlights views on GP Data for Planning and Research programme
The not-for-profit consumer champion Which?, has published findings following a survey with 1,681 participants to understand the nation’s views on the GP Data for Planning and Research programme. Which? found that 55 per cent of participants had heard of the scheme, with 71 per cent feeling it had not publicised it […]
Video: Dr Minal Bakhai keynote talk from HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Minal Bakhai, the Clinical Director for Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, delivered one of the two keynote speeches at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021. Focusing her talk on a ‘digital first primary care’, Dr Bakhai began by asking the audience to “take a step […]
Solent NHS Trust goes live with integrated sexual health services
Solent NHS Trust – which covers Southampton, Portsmouth and parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – recently announced the go-live of its new integrated sexual health services. It’s hoped that Solent’s Personal Health Record (PHR), which has been designed by Inform Health, will lessen the pressure facing clinics […]