Sunderland Royal Hospital, part of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT), has announced it has met all the requirements of the national Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme. Andy Hart, Director of Information Management and Technology at the trust, will receive the official GDE accreditation, a ‘hallmark of excellence’ […]
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Patchwork Health raises £3.5 million from investors
Patchwork Health, a health-tech company providing a digital healthcare staffing platform, has raised £3.5 million in its latest round of funding. This round of investment follows a recent raise of £3 million in January 2020, to support the company’s growth plans. Founded in 2016 by NHS doctors Anas Nader and Jing […]
iMDsoft selects IMS MAXIMS as UK partner
iMDSoft, a provider of clinical information systems for acute and critical care environments, has partnered with UK company IMS MAXIMS, as its channel partner. IMS Maxims will now, in an exclusive deal, market the MetaVision Suite, a product range for critical care, perioperative and acute care units. The company will […]
CCube Solutions hits 50 billion digital images milestone
CCube Solutions, a specialist in supporting healthcare providers with electronic document management tools, has announced it has achieved a milestone of capturing, managing, and delivering 50 billion images of NHS paper documents. A company tackling the NHS paperless agenda, CCube Solutions said its solutions now host over 450 million records, […]
Myrecovery app to roll-out across Greater Manchester
Myrecovery, an app to support patients through their orthopaedic care, has been selected by seven NHS trusts across Greater Manchester. Developed by surgeons, the digital companion has been created to support patients to prepare for and recover from surgery, and will be initially used for patients across Manchester who are […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust selects Agilisys data platform
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen technology from Agilisys to provide a data platform across the trust. Forming part of trust’s ambition to create a digitally-enabled healthcare future, the aim is for its workforce to be digitally empowered and to ensure digital is a good experience for staff and […]
NHS Digital commits to new workforce diversity targets
NHS Digital has set itself a number of new targets to improve the diversity of its workforce at all levels, in areas such as tech and data, and particularly in senior roles. According to the organisation, around one in five NHS staff are from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Oxford Health’s draft digital healthcare strategy
Our latest Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, has focused on NHS trusts’ newest strategies and ideas for implementing and embedding digital technologies. In part one, we examined Wirral University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s five-year plan for the next stage of their journey, before turning to Northern Lincolnshire and […]
News in brief: FDB inks Health and Social Care Northern Ireland deal, Anglia trust lab goes fully digital, healthy ageing product funding
Another week, another Olympian effort from health tech innovators across the UK and beyond. Over the past seven days we’ve reported on the Acute COVID app for redeployed NHS staff, NHSX’s call for healthcare professionals to submit challenges, and the Care and Health Information Exchange’s migration to Orion Health. We’ve […]
Feature: Using operational data to support the redesign of clinical pathways across an ICS
For the latest in the HTN feature series which focuses on digital transformation for integrated care systems (ICS), HTN spoke with David Hancock, Healthcare Executive Advisor at InterSystems. In our virtual chat we discussed the role of operational data, the need for data liquidity, and how to approach system-wide pathway […]
