The Care Information Exchange across North West London now hosts the health records of up to 2.3 million people. Powered by Patients Know Best and funded by £3 million investment from Imperial Health Charity, CIE collects data from hospitals and GP practices in the area, and 15 other hospitals outside […]
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Two apps join NHS Apps Library
Two innovative startups have joined the NHS Apps Library; the TrackActive and iPrescribe Exercise Apps. TrackActive was founded five years ago by Ian Prangley, a professional sports coach and physio who hopes that TrackActive will change the face of treatment for musculoskeletal injury by helping to keep patients active and recover […]
HTN 100: Paper correspondence, Doctor Care Anywhere, Yorkshire Cancer Research, Panlogic and Kintell
Paper correspondence fails 40,000 women Over 40,000 women England have not received correspondence for cervical cancer screening following an error to send out the letters between January and June 2018. It is estimated 10% of these were test results and the remainder inviting women for screening or reminders they were due. The […]
Nine councils awarded funding to use digital innovation to create social care of the future
NHS Digital has announced 9 councils have been awarded funding for digital innovation following a call for applications earlier in the year. The digitisation projects include, devices for measuring anxiety triggers, online financial self-assessment and benefits checker tools, and an app for social care providers, enabling them to collate important employment […]
Australian health region benefits from bedside tech
Patientrack’s new Bed Board module will replace bedside whiteboards for ACT Health, meaning healthcare professionals no longer need to manually write updates. The system pulls in data from multiple systems to display critical patient information at the patient bedside including demographics to aid in positive patient identification, patient location, estimated date […]
Instant messaging vital during a crisis
New guidance for the NHS will help staff use instant messaging safely to co-ordinate patients’ care during emergencies. Healthcare professionals have turned to communication channels such as Whatsapp to deal with emergency situations. The new guidance will help NHS organisations and staff to make a judgement on how and when to […]
NHS Digital funding to help adult social care provider sector build a digital future
NHS Digital has awarded £784,000 to the members of the Care Provider Alliance to deliver a new sector-led service which will offer digital support for social care providers. From now until March 2021, the members of the Care Provider Alliance will work to understand current levels of digital maturity, […]
Amazon expands HIPAA eligible machine learning
Amazon AWS has announced that Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible services. Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that automatically creates text transcripts from audio files will allow healthcare organisations to create text transcripts calls with […]
Elliott and Veritas team up to buy Athenahealth for $5.7bn
Athenahealth has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Veritas Capital for $135 per share in cash. Athenahealth is a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory customers in the States, the sale price of $5.7bn represent a per share purchase price premium of approximately 12 percent over the company’s […]
