The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a new report on lessons learned from the pandemic to support the future of digital change in health and care. Following a consultation process with 100 of its members, PRSB has published the report examining the digital transformation of services during the pandemic and […]
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£16m funding for trusts to introduce digital prescribing
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced 16 NHS trusts across England will receive a share of £16 million to introduce electronic prescribing. The funding is being introduced to help trusts replace paper-based systems, with an aim to support the entire NHS become digital for prescribing by 2024. […]
Ideal Health extends partnership with HIMSS for digital maturity models
Ideal Health, a digital consultancy specialising in healthcare, has extended its partnership with HIMSS for three years to support organisations assess and prioritise digital maturity. Phil Sinclair, Consulting Director and HIMSS Lead at Ideal Health Consultants, said: “In the past year, Ideal has been an extremely active HIMSS Certified Organisation in […]
Queen Mary University launch new remote monitoring app project
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London are launching a new project with healthtech startup Living With, aiming to revolutionise the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. The project will develop an AI driven product to help to optimise treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients, based on health data they have submitted via Living With’s […]
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS FT goes live with TPP SystmOne
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS FT has gone live with a new electronic patient record from TPP as part of its digital transformation strategy. The trust worked with Channel 3 consulting to deliver a remote implementation plan, with the system recently going live across children’s services. The implementation was delivered through 223 virtual […]
Leicester’s Hospitals live with mobile closed-loop EPMA
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has gone live with mobile closed-loop electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) at Leicester General Hospital. Working with software supplier Nervecentre, the EPMA programme is part of their electronic patient record journey to deliver a mobile first digital patient record system. The new EPMA module […]
National Record Locator programme; a feature by NHS Digital
By Jon Calpin, Programme Manager for the National Record Locator, NHS Digital NHS Digital’s Programme Manager for the National Record Locator, Jon Calpin, discusses how a pilot with London Ambulance Service has proven that interoperability of NHS systems can be achieved and how this benefits organisations, with Jo Clark from […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ picks Epic
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has announced a new partnership with Epic to implement a new single integrated electronic health record system across the organisation. The electronic patient record is planned to go live in April 2023, and the trust will also work with Epic to deploy its patient portal. […]
Case Study: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust adopts MyPorter
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has adopted a digital solution, MyPorter, to support porter requests and task management to provide efficiencies. The challenge Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s existing tracking system for its Portering Department had begun to experience failures, and as an older system it no longer received full technical support. […]
Leeds Teaching goes live with Sectra for pathology
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) from Sectra for pathology services. The trust becomes the first of an initial six trusts in the Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative to deploy the solution as part of a digital pathology initiative across the region. […]
