Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced new technology which allows patients to receive appointment letters directly to their mobile phone. The Trust previously would send 744,000 letter by post, with an estimated cost of £75,000. The new system means all outpatients who have registered a mobile phone number […]
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Alcidion partners with Better by Marand to offer ePMA
Alcidion the parent company to Patientrack has partnered with Better by Marand to offer its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to NHS Trusts. The company said the partnership will complement the Patientrack patient safety platform and help hospitals tackle medication errors. Alcidion will resell the OPENeP electronic prescribing and medicines […]
London Ambulance Summary Care Record pilot launches
A pilot to provide medics with Summary Care Record access has launched by using the new NHS Identity Service to authenticate to the system. NHS Digital has developed the pilot, which will last 16 weeks and use Camden Ambulance Station as an initial user base. Around 60 medics will have […]
Ping An Good Doctor launches a one-minute clinic in Shanghai
Ping An Healthcare and Technology has launched a one-minute clinic at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to provide consultations and health management services. The platform uses AI technology and connects with more than 1,000 medical professionals and almost 5,000 externally contracted doctors. The technology AI Doctor by Ping An Good Doctor’s […]
Lewisham and Greenwich digitises HR processes
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has streamlined its employee relations (ER) and case management processes by implementing Selenity’s ER Tracker. The solution enables the Trust to improve its reporting, compliance and information gathering for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and supports greater communication amongst the HR department. Victoria Tyler, Head of Employee […]
HTN 100: TestCard, PRSB, Push Doctor, Leeds Digital Festival and Fujifilm
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. TestCard Funding Round reaches £1.5m TestCard, the postcard with an embedded, pull-out urine test providing instant result via an app is raising a total of £2.5m in […]
Patients given access to x-rays, ultrasound and other imaging
Thousands of patients now have online access to a wide range of images from x-rays to CT and MRI scans thanks to an extension of a national network called the Image Exchange Portal. The network connects every acute hospital in England and is relied on to share 35-40 million images […]
NHS Digital agrees deal with data monitoring and analytics platform
NHS Digital has agreed a deal with Splunk a data monitoring and analytics platform. The deal is said to support trusts make better use of their machine generated information and provide a more cost-effective approach in utilising the data analytics and processing software to drive operational insight from machine data. The […]
Text messaging service benefits University Hospitals of Leicester
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 […]
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 […]
