Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has launched a new national tool which can be used to calculate the risk of digital exclusion and identify areas in need of more support. The Digital Exclusion Risk Index (DERI) tool, which can be used across England, Wales and Scotland, was released last week, […]
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NHS Digital reveals Microsoft Teams roll-out saved 2.9 million hours for NHS staff
A new study by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has found that the roll-out of Microsoft Teams to around 1.3 million NHS users saved over 2.9 million hours of NHS time, according to NHS Digital. The programme’s ability to facilitate video conferencing and virtual meetings, alongside other communications for NHS […]
Agenda revealed for HTN Now 8-9 November
The HTN health tech tour is almost coming to a close for the year, but we have two days filled with health tech innovators and leaders still to come, as well as our new series of focused one-day events. Join the team, across 8 – 9 November, for nine live […]
New HEE pilot to provide NHS leaders with digital learning and development
Health Education England (HEE) is promoting a new pilot scheme that hopes to equip NHS leaders with greater digital skills, awareness and understanding. The Health Innovation Placement (HIP) Pilot, provided through HEE’s Digital Readiness Programme, is intended to increase know-how across the NHS workforce and to offer health leaders opportunities […]
Interview Series: CliniSys explain how Integrated Clinical Environments can join up healthcare
For the latest edition of our Interview Series, we speak with Darren Solomon, Support and ICE [Integrated Clinical Environments] Strategy Director for CliniSys and the company’s Marketing Manager, Matthew Fouracre. Here, they talk us through how interoperable networks, such as ICE OpenNet, can help NHS organisations link up locally, and […]
NHS England and NHS Digital create new cancer quality of life dashboard
A new data dashboard, which illustrates quality of life levels for cancer patients in England, has been launched by the NHS. Teams from NHS England and NHS Improvement, and NHS Digital, worked on the project, which uses data from national surveys. People with cancer are being asked to complete the […]
Kent and Medway ICS goes live with new shared care record
Kent and Medway Integrated Care System (ICS) has gone live with its shared care record – the CareCentric system from Graphnet. The Kent and Medway Care Record (KMCR) was commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway CCG, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, Kent County Council and Medway Council. It will […]
Video: Coventry and Warwickshire HCP share integrated care record experience
We complete our look back at the HTN Now September 2021 content with a review of a live webcast focusing on integrated care records (ICRs). For this session we were joined by Danny Roberts, Programme Director, and Jayne Rooke, Programme Manager, to talk about the Coventry and Warwickshire Health and […]
Interview Series: Ade Odunlade, Chief Operating Officer for Derbyshire Healthcare, discusses how data can assist the NHS recovery
In our latest interview in the series, we head to Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to chat to its Chief Operating Officer (COO), Ade Odunlade, about all things data. We find out all about his work with RwHealth’s data science platform and how he sees data analytics helping to support […]
King’s College Hospital deploys AI engine
King’s College Hospital has deployed an AI engine called AIDE, providing anonymised patient data into one central solution to support the development of AI technologies. The trust said that, by analysing large quantities of patient scans and complex information, it has produced algorithms to assist with decision support, diagnoses and […]
