London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS FT have signed an agreement with Cerner to implement its integrated electronic health record (EHR). The deal was signed in February, and will see the two organisations utilise the EPR as well as joining the EHR domain used […]
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NICE launches five-year strategy with focus on data, technologies and innovations
NICE has today published a five-year strategy with an increased focus on new treatments, technologies and innovations. In the strategy the body highlights its four priority areas of focus; ‘rapid, robust, and responsive technology evaluation’, ‘dynamic, living guideline recommendations’, ‘effective guidance uptake to maximise impact’ and ‘leadership in data, research […]
Alcidion acquires patient flow software company
Smart health tech company Alcidion has acquired a UK patient flow software company called ExtraMed. ExtraMed provides patient flow software to NHS trusts and Alcidion’s capture is set to lead to an ‘enhanced offering’ for hospitals and primary and social care organisations. It’s reported that it will be ‘business as […]
News in brief: MOD contract for PMC solution, openEHR in the Caribbean
There’s plenty of health tech news to start the week with – from the Ministry of Defence’s primary medical care contract, to openEHR in the Caribbean – catch up on anything you might have missed, by reading our news bites this morning. MOD contract for PMC solution delivery The software […]
Barts Health reports rise in e-referral advice and guidance function
Barts Health NHS Trust has reported a rise in the number of GPs using the advice and guidance (A&G) service, through the NHS e-Referral Service. The service, which supports clinicians to seek advice from each other, has grown to 2,300 requests in one month – an increase of almost 200% […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital maturity satisfaction in focus
For our HTN Health Tech Trends Series 2021, supported by InterSystems, we sent out a survey to you – our audience – asking readers to respond to a series of questions around digital maturity satisfaction levels, the best technology your organisations have adopted and how close you are to working […]
Video interview: Caroline Palmer, Digital Development Clinical Lead at Leicestershire NHS
HTN had a quick chat, over video, with Caroline Palmer, Digital Development Clinical lead at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust – to find out her thoughts on who has helped shape her career in health tech, her ideal tech solutions and what she’s working on at the moment. Who is the […]
Video: how can we make data more useful for clinicians?
The final day of live sessions of HTN Now April 2021 was jam-packed – featuring five different sessions covering a range health tech topics. One of our Thursday morning talks included an expert discussion on how to make data more useful to clinicians. Malcolm Pradhan, Chief Medical Officer at Alcidion […]
Video: Ideal Health discuss change management and ‘what does good look like?’
The digital healthcare consultancy Ideal Health joined us for the final day of the April 2021 HTN Now series to talk about the the importance of change management in digital transformation, in regards to achieving adoption and delivering benefits. Considering what a ‘good’ transformation journey looks like, as well as […]
AXA and Microsoft to collaborate on new digital healthcare platform
AXA has announced that it is working with Microsoft to build a new, fully integrated digital healthcare platform. The insurance giant said it will aim to simplify healthcare journeys and ’empower’ customers, using the platform to provide a ‘virtual healthcare system’ that is ‘open to all’. By combining AXA’s ‘global […]
