Southern Communications Group has acquired X-on, a cloud-based telephony specialist that supports 1,400 GP practices. Business-to-business communications provider, Southern Communications Group (SCG), said the move will help drive a significant new phase in X-on’s growth plans. Currently 17.5 per cent of the GP practice market uses the company’s tech. Under the […]
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Cheshire & Merseyside ICS introduces teledermatology tech
Cheshire & Merseyside ICS, along with four acute trusts in Liverpool, Wirral and Cheshire, have launched an initiative aiming to reduce pressure on primary and secondary care services through a suite of new teledermatology technology. Made possible by National Teledermatology Investment Programme (NTIP) funding alongside a partnership with Cinapsis, the solution […]
EMIS acquires medical appraisals specialist FourteenFish
EMIS Group has announced its second acquisition of 2022, purchasing medical appraisals specialist FourteenFish. Founded by a GP and IT specialist in 2012, the UK-based technology company supports over 100,000 healthcare professionals, such as nurses, GPs and practice managers. They are known for providing an easy-to-use, modern, Trainee Portfolio and […]
News in Brief: UK health tech deployed in The Gambia, Miiskin dermatology app research, digital nursing in Wales…
It’s been a busy week at HTN. We’ve explored data protection and cyber security in healthcare, covered news on the winners of phase two funding for the Digital Health Partnership Award, and published our keynote talk with Dr Mala Ubhi from HTN Digital Primary Care Conference, in which she discusses transforming the […]
Feature: Remember Bevan; new integrated care systems must put patient at centre
Feature by Inhealthcare As NHS and local government leaders set up new integrated care systems across England, it is worth remembering a post-war speech by the founding father of the national health service. Aneurin Bevan said: “We must recognise that our hospital service is organised for the service of the […]
Frimley ICS adopts EMIS analytics for patient trends
Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS) has utilised EMIS-X Analytics to identify trends, such as patient behaviours and areas of increasing demand. Using data drawn from the local shared care record and population health tools, EMIS and Frimley ICS, have identified a 17 per cent annual rise in demand for […]
Phase two funding winners announced for Digital Health Partnership Award
A funding initiative by NHS England’s Transformation Directorate (formerly NHSX), called the Digital Health Partnership Award, has announced the winners of phase two of the programme. The Award helps NHS organisations in England bid for funding to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies that support patients at home. In the […]
New remote triage and consultation platform in East Midlands
Lakeside Healthcare Partnership, a group of NHS GP practices in the East Midlands, has introduced a digital assessment platform to help redesign pathways by digitising patient triage and assessment workflows. Doctrin’s care navigation platform, which enables patients to be triaged and directed onward to a healthcare practitioner, is being rolled out […]
Feature: Sussex ICS community diagnostic centres
As we’ve launched our new Integrated Care Systems (ICS) channel, we wanted to explore some practical digital solutions and programmes that are supporting new pathways and models of working, across a local healthcare system. Here we focus on community diagnostic centres (CDCs), delving into what this model looks like and the opportunities […]
Liverpool Heart and Chest awarded HIMSS stage 6
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS FT (LHCH) has achieved the HIMSS (Health Information and Management System Society) Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6 rating. The HIMSS EMRAM system, an international quality standard, measures the adoption and maturity of a health facility’s inpatient EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection) capabilities […]
