A digital tool to help spot signs of delirium quickly is to be rolled out to two hospitals in Greater Manchester following success in Salford. The digital tool will support all patients aged 65 or over or with a diagnosis of dementia on admission to hospital. It will now be […]
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NHS introduces online coronavirus advice tool
A new online tool has be launched to support people get quick, reliable advice about coronavirus, following a surge in enquiries. NHS England said more than 35,000 people used the NHS 111 site in a single day over the weekend to get help and advice and the new online tool has […]
Hospify approved for NHS Apps Library
NHS Digital has approved the Hospify app, a secure, compliant and free-to-use clinical messaging app, for its NHS App Library. Following 12 months of testing the app is now available in the NHS Apps Library to provide a tool for clinical professionals to communicate, without using WhatsApp. The app underwent an assessment process […]
Medway Community Healthcare picks Servelec
Medway Community Healthcare has started to implement Servelec’s Rio, Electronic Patient Record. The EPR system is planned to go live later this year and will utilise Servelec’s Conexes cloud-based interoperability platform to connect and share data between systems and apps. The Integrated Care Provider will use Conexes to allow local trusts to […]
Intechnology announces new people-centred tech project wins
Intechnology has announced a series of new business wins, including a digital service to increase school-age vaccinations across the Humber and a digital service to support anticipatory care at care homes in Northern Ireland. The company behind Inhealthcare and Insmartcities, focuses on transformation and the delivery of people-centred services that span health and social […]
Middlesex Uni invests in VR to train student nurses
Middlesex University has opted to use virtual reality headsets from Oxford Medical Simulation to recreate real-life scenarios that nurses would face. The software recreate scenarios in a digital environment to help train and develop nurses. There are 20 different scenarios, including patients who have difficulty breathing, diabetes, COPD and severe allergies. […]
Case Study: How Wirral’s ICU nurses are benefiting from medical device integration
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has worked with health integration specialist Enovacom, a subsidiary of Orange Business Services, to integrate data generated by medical devices to their hospital information system. The Patient Connect solution integrates any data generated by medical devices to any hospital information system, from patient […]
Royal Wolverhampton picks Zesty for digital outpatients
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has signed an agreement with Zesty to deliver its digital patient portal to support around half a million people. The portal is to be introduced as part of the trust’s digital plans over the next 5 years and it aims to launch the solution from […]
Interview Series: Jane Rendall, MD, Sectra
In our latest interview, we spoke with Jane Rendall, the managing director at Sectra, to hear about some of the company successes, learnings, advice and plans for the future. Can you tell me about yourself and the company? I am the managing director here in the UK and Ireland for […]
NHSX appoints Sonia Patel as new national chief information officer
NHSX has today announced a new national chief information officer, Sonia Patel. Sonia Patel was previously CIO at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and will now take up the role working with Matthew Gould, CEO and CCIO Simon Eccles. The role was advertised at just over £130,000, and Sonia is […]
