Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern Ireland have published their digital strategy for the next eight years, sharing their vision of “making lives better for the people of Northern Ireland, using digital to transform the way we deliver health, care and wellbeing services.” HSC published the strategy this week and […]
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Health and Social Care Northern Ireland updates plans for its £300m Encompass programme
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland has provided an update on its ‘Encompass’ programme, a £300m 10-year work-stream to deliver a new electronic patient record for five trusts. The contract for the programme was signed in June 2020 to implement the Epic electronic patient record, develop its infrastructure and create up […]
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 […]
Northern Ireland publishes new COVID-19 vaccination data dashboard
A new COVID-19 vaccination dashboard, which charts the progress of Northern Ireland’s roll-out, went live this week. Northern Ireland’s Department of Health says the platform is the ‘first step’ in plans to publish detailed vaccination data on a daily basis. Work on the dashboard’s infrastructure will continue, with the aim […]
WellSky International announces new partnership in Ireland
In industry news today, WellSky International, a UK provider of medical management systems, announced a new partnership with Republic of Ireland-based medical equipment distributor, Brennan and Company. WellSky provides medicines management systems for healthcare providers from the UK to South Africa, and the new partnership will see the Irish company […]
Northern Ireland adopts health tech to support care homes manage COVID-19
Digital Health and Care Northern Ireland has launched a pilot using technology from Inhealthcare to support residential care homes provide an overview of the health status of residents during COVID-19. The new service supports care workers to identify residents at risk and who may require clinical assessment. A digital questionnaire in an […]
Northern Ireland StopCOVID app to cover young people
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has announced its StopCOVID NI app is to cover children and young people, starting from next month. The app was launched towards the end of July, and has to date been downloaded more than 300,000 times. Out of 281 ratings on the Apple App Store the app […]
Ireland donates COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation Public Health initiative
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has announced the code for its COVID-19 Tracker app will be donated as Open Source to Linux Foundation Public Health initiative. The move is hoped to help regions worldwide quickly build and deploy their own contact tracing apps. In Ireland 1 million people installed the app […]
Health Innovation Hub Ireland accelerator winners announced
Health Innovation Hub Ireland has announced the winners of its innovation competition to validate, pilot and fast-track solutions into the Irish healthcare system. Following a national health innovation competition, 15 health tech suppliers have been chosen. The competition was directed at companies who have an innovative product, solution or service […]
Ireland COVID tracker app launched and nears 1 million downloads in 24 hours
A COVID Tracker App has been launched this week in Ireland, with nearly 1 million people downloading the app in the first 24 hours. The app uses Bluetooth and anonymous IDs to log close contact with any phone that also has the app. It uses technology developed by Apple and […]
