A paper published in Frontiers in Digital Health by authors Matthew Cripps and Harry Scarbrough examines the challenges of effectively implementing and creating sustainable digital health solutions. The paper, “Making Digital Health ‘Solutions’ Sustainable in Healthcare Systems: A Practitioner Perspective” advocates for change to the way that digital transformation is […]
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Becton Dickinson funding deal for Isla post-surgery wound assessment tool
Becton Dickinson, a medical tech company, has singed a funding deal with Isla Care to further develop the company’s platform focused to support the assessment of post-surgery wounds. The technology is used by patients and clinicians after surgery, to monitor wounds at home in the hope that it will encourage early detection […]
£12 million allocated as part of Digital Productivity Fund
The NHS Transformation Directorate’s Digital Productivity Programme has allocated £12 million in funding, with a focus on automation, real time location systems, and extended reality. The programme is also supporting ‘other productivity-improving technologies’, including surgery pods, no-code development tools, e-rostering, scheduling and care planning tools, remote monitoring, digital dictation, digital […]
Health Tech Trends 2022: what can we learn about digital transformation from the past year?
Rounding off our latest Health Tech Trends series, through which we explore the opinions of health and care leaders on a variety of topics, we asked our respondents for their thoughts on learnings from the past year. What is the lesson on digital transformation that stands out from the past […]
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership goes live with single waiting list platform across the ICS
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership has gone live with a data management platform from Insource, to provide a single system-wide patient tracking list. Part of the ICS’s wider elective recovery programme, the platform provides visibility of patients from referral to treatment waiting lists across three acute sites and […]
Nuffield Trust publishes lessons learned to support patient engagement with digital innovations
The Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, has published a new report following an evaluation to explore the factors that support patient and staff engagement in the use of digital healthcare innovations. The paper, ‘Supporting patient engagement with digital health care innovations: Lessons from the Care City test bed’, produced […]
Torbay and South Devon NHS live with TPP maternity
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with TPP SystmOne Maternity, through which they have digitised the maternity pathway from antenatal through to postnatal care. With maternity care now ‘centred on a complete and integrated digital care record’, the trust expects that more than 25,000 women will […]
The Lancet publishes results of study on drone use to deliver blood
A new research paper has been published in The Lancet, following a study on the use of drones to deliver blood products to remote health facilities in Rwanda. The document, titled “Effect of unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) delivery on blood product delivery time and wastage in Rwanda: a retrospective, cross-sectional […]
Feature: How is patient flow changing for the NHS?
Responsibility for patient flow is no longer just a nursing task – it is everyone’s responsibility. Katy Cain, clinical consultant for smart health technology provider Alcidion, explores changes in the way patient flow is being managed to respond to NHS pressures, maximise capacity and improve patient outcomes. As a senior […]
Feature: Open Medical Director Michael Shenouda on the importance of capturing granular data during the patient flow
As part of our Patient Flow feature series this month, we spoke to Michael Shenouda, Director at Open Medical, to get his thoughts on the importance of capturing granular data during patient flows, examples of their solution in practice, and the learnings and challenges Open Medical can take forward. To […]
