University Hospitals of Leicester has reduced its did not attend rates by 433 from January to mid-March thanks to introducing a new two-way text messaging service. The service using technology from Healthcare Communications was introduced to remind patients of their forthcoming appointments or pre-operative assessments, where patients have provided Leicester’s […]
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Northumbria Healthcare benefits from digital images
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is utilising technology from Nervecentre to capture, store and share images of patients with pressure ulcers. By using photography to confirm classification of a pressure ulcer wound, the trust said to HTN is has seen a reduction in the validation time – from three days to […]
National Events Management Service goes live
The National Events Management Service is now live allowing for patient centric event messages to be published from one system and distributed to a number of other subscriber systems. The service means vital child health information will now be available to health professionals and parents at the point of care. The […]
United Lincolnshire Hospitals sees reduction in did not attend rates
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has seen a reduction in did not attend rates to 4.1 per cent following a new patient communications project. The Trust introduced a new digital communication portal which enables patients to manage their appointments digitally from anywhere at anytime. Developed by Healthcare Communications, the digital portal is […]
GS1 UK partners with NHS Digital
Global standards organisation, GS1 UK and NHS Digital have announced a five-year partnership to enable NHS trusts to use GS1 standards starting with the patient wristband and extending to location management using the Global Location Number registry (LocationManager). The technology supports the unique identification of every person, product and every […]
Robot tech improves the way patients receive medication
Salford Royal has extended the use of PillTime following a successful pilot. The system ensures patients receive the right medication on time, every time. PillTime dispensary, featuring a robot and optical checker, has been set up in the Trust’s pharmacy department. The robot collates different patient medication and dispenses it in individual, […]
HTN Industry View: NHSX to mandate health tech standards
Last week HTN reported on NHSX confirming their intent to mandate the use of internationally-recognised tech and data standards across the NHS to ensure a consistent language of clinical terms to help staff share information, as reported by HTN here. Following our news article, we asked the industry for their views […]
Interview Series: Dr Tanya Pankhurst, University Hospitals Birmingham
In our latest interview we spoke with Dr Tanya Pankhurst, Deputy Director of Digital Healthcare from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). What systems are used at UHB and how advanced are you with technology? Here at UHB we are quite unique, we have a team of programmers and build […]
HTN Health Tech Trends Survey launched
HTN is delighted to bring you the HTN Health Tech Trends Survey 2019 sponsored by InterSystems. The Health Tech Trends Survey provides you with the opportunity to share your views and opinions on health technology. The findings from the survey will be shared with the HTN network through a series […]
Royal Wolverhampton appoints OLM
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has appointed OLM to optimise its 0 – 19 Healthy Child Programme service with new cloud-native technology, ECLIPSE; a case management system to improve and simplify the case recording process. The 0-19 Healthy Child Programme is an integrated service for children, young people and their families […]
