GPs and community providers have been reported to have surpassed £100 million in directly attributable savings since frontline staff began using an innovative technology to prescribe less expensive and more clinically appropriate medicines for individual patients. OptimiseRx, is now used in thousands of GP practices, and more than 125 clinical […]
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World’s first use of cryptocurrency to access healthcare services
Medicalchain has announced that for the very first-time cryptocurrency is being used to access GP video consultations through its blockchain-based telemedicine application, MyClinic.com. Piloting at The Groves Medical Centre in London, this is the first step in Medicalchain’s ambitions to create borderless healthcare, empowering patients to access flexible, safe healthcare and […]
HTN Feature: Sharing Records
In our latest feature we spoke with industry experts to hear how they are progressing with sharing records across their local health economy or STP and what they have learned, achieved and what advice they have to share. It’s been covered a lot, putting the right information in the hands […]
NHS Junior Doctors raise $3.9m to transform healthcare communication
Forward Health, the app working to reinvent healthcare communication, has today announced a $3.9m seed funding-round led by Stride.VC, with additional backing from Albion Capital. Forward was founded in 2016 by UK doctors Barney Gilbert and Lydia Yarlott, alongside serial entrepreneur Philip Mundy. Their mission is to connect healthcare systems […]
Bradford Teaching Hospitals to launch hospital command centre
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is collaborating with GE Healthcare to build a command centre – like an air traffic control – at Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI). The command centre, the first of its kind in Europe, will transform how care is delivered and organised as the number of […]
Tech benefits Norfolk Community to reduce A&E admissions
Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust has reported a reduction in A&E admissions and bed days among a group of high-dependency patients following the introduction of a new remote-monitoring service from InHealthcare for people living with heart and lung disease. The Trust allows users to check their vital signs at […]
RCGP Chair takes on tech firms who are using ‘bully boy’ tactics and creating a ‘digital divide’ in patient care
The UK’s top GP will hit back at accusations that doctors are ‘technophobic dinosaurs’ who are reluctant to move with the times. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, will accuse wealthy tech companies of creating a ‘digital divide’ as younger and fitter patients are ‘siphoned off’ […]
Doctorlink chosen as digital platform for London STP
One of Britain’s largest Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) has awarded a contract to Doctorlink, an intelligent digital health platform, following a competitive tender process involving 12 different suppliers. The contract with South West London means up to 1.6 million patients across approximately 200 surgeries will be able to access Doctorlink’s […]
HTN 100: Reducing agency spend by 25% and pharmacy anywhere
Reducing agency spend by 25% Oceanblue has supported Sandwell and West Birmingham to reduce their Bank and Agency run rate by £12M p.a. Over 12 months up to February 2018, the Oceansblue / Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust software and services project delivered: RN shortages on shifts cut […]
East Yorkshire Trust successfully implements fast-tracking system from Idox Health
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen Idox Health’s iFIT logistics management platform. The platform is now live across the Trust’s two main hospital sites, Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, providing the Patient Administration team with a more effective way to track patient record movement and […]
