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 […]
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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 […]
Lincolnshire Community partners with Q Doctor
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has announced Lincolnshire residents will gain access to video consultations with healthcare professionals through technology platform Q doctor. The partnership means 735,000 people will now have access to community services across the county, virtually. Following a successful pilot the technology has now been extended […]
Poole Hospital’s ‘virtual’ fracture clinic reduces appointments by 40%
Poole Hospital has gone live with a new virtual fracture clinic using technology from Bluespier. Previously all patients seen at the Trust’s Emergency Departments (ED) with a suspected fracture would have been referred to the hospital fracture clinic. Now, patients in ED have their injury immobilised in a splint or […]
Thousands sign up for online GP service in Birmingham
A partnership between Push Doctor and Urban Health and I3 primary care networks, covering 13 practices and 88,000 patients now enables patients to make a digital appointment with an online GP. A pilot at Halcyon Medical surgery in Central Birmingham has been a roaring success said the partnership, with 34% of […]
Scarborough and York Hospitals picks Patchwork clinical staffing solution
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Patchwork to trial a new clinical staffing solution for their medical workforce. The technology is set to increase bank fill rates, reduce staffing costs and reduce administrative processes with its solution that instantly connects clinicians to vacant bank shifts through an app, enabling Trusts to […]
IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions partner
IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions have announced a partnership to offer mobile provider-to-provider and provider-to-patient communications to NHS organisations, GP practices and patients. The partnership aims to support NHS organisations move away from outdated technologies and remove paper correspondence within and between organisations and with patients. Shane Tickell, Chief […]
HTN 100: Concentric, Unmasked, EOS Imaging and Agfa
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. Welsh health tech start up Concentric secures £350k investment Concentric, a platform which supports patients faced with the possibility of surgery to make shared decisions with their […]
NHSX to mandate health tech standards
NHSX has announced it wants to assemble a world-class team of technical experts to help solve some of the biggest technology challenges in health and care. It will soon begin recruiting a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to design and deliver a new Internet-based technical architecture for all of the NHS […]
