NHS Digital has partnered with email and data security supplier Egress for NHSmail. Egress Protect will integrate into NHSmail to improve protection and security, following a recent successful pilot of the solution. Chris Parsons, NHSmail Programme Lead at NHS Digital said “NHSmail is already a safe, secure email system, used […]
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HTN Webinar Learning Series: Healthcare Interoperability and Supporting Pathology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This week as part of the HTN COVID-19 Webinar Learning Series, we invite you to attend a session focusing on healthcare interoperability and how it’s supporting pathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new Health Tech Webinar Learning Series supports sharing information and learnings on the role of technology to support […]
Health Tech Heroes part two
Each week as part of our Health Tech Heroes series we recognise and say thank you to those in health tech making a real difference. Here in the second part in the series, we cover some of the amazing work this week where teams across the country have been working […]
Oxford University publishes guidance on bluetooth contact tracing app
At Oxford University, a team of medical researchers and bioethicists have published results in Science that furthers understanding of coronavirus transmission. The mobile app concept would use a low-energy version of Bluetooth to log a memory of all the app users with whom you have come into close proximity over the last […]
Webinar Overview: Digital first primary care
Last week through a live webinar, we heard from Kieran Waterston, Head of Sales at iPlato Healthcare. The webinar focused on a digital first primary care and how the mygp platform is being used to help the COVID-19 pandemic. You can watch a recording of the webinar here: Kieran Waterston […]
NHS COVID-19 symptom checker launched to help build up additional data
An online symptom checker has been launched to help the NHS coordinate its response and build up additional data on the COVID-19 pandemic. NHS England, NHSX and NHS Digital collaborated to develop the Coronavirus Status Checker to ask people with potential symptoms to complete the online questionnaire. The short survey is […]
Interview Series: Alan Lowe, CEO of Visionable
In our latest interview we speak with Alan Lowe, CEO of Visionable, the specialist video collaboration provider. Could you tell me a bit about Visionable? I’m an NHS manager by background. I started my career in London, where I managed frontline services and worked in service improvement. I installed one […]
Epic supports GOSH, UCLH and CUH
University College London Hospitals, Great Ormond Street and Cambridge University Hospitals are utilising tools from Epic to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is using video visits in Epic to deliver care to patients at home, along with a courier service to deliver prescriptions. Patients […]
PRSB publishes guidance on COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes
The Professional Record Standards Body has published guidance on COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes. In response to the current pandemic, the body has worked with NHS Digital to publish clinical information for COVID-19-related care and treatment and how it should be coded. The UK SNOMED CT codes for COVID-19 have been released […]
Microsoft Teams sees 44,885 NHS users per day
On 18th March NHSX, NHS Digital and Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams would be available for free for three months. The tool was rolled out to all NHSmail users on 20th March and between March 22–28 it was used to facilitate 973,072 private online chats, rising from 6,804 on March 22 to a […]
