The start up Siilo Messenger has reached a milestone of 140,000 unique users, doubling its user base in less than 12 months. The GDPR compliant messaging and collaboration platform for health and care was founded in 2016 by a former doctor and surgeon and reached 70,000 users in June last year. Since […]
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Pharmacist reduces controlled drugs admin by 75%
A Yorkshire based pharmacy has reduced the time spent on managing controlled drugs prescriptions by 75% thanks to a new electronic monitoring system. Day Lewis pharmacy in Hull removed its paper process and switched to an electronic controlled drugs register (eCDR) developed by EMIS Health that is integrated into his […]
HTN Newsletter
In our latest newsletter we cover the news and views we brought you this month. HTN asked industry experts for their views on NHSX, read our feature here. Interoperability was a focus in our latest feature, where we asked industry leaders for their views and examples of best practice. HTN launched […]
New pharmacy standard now complete
A new standard to improve information sharing between community pharmacies and GP practices is now complete, the Professional Record Standards Body has announced. The new standard of a two-part standard, defines the information shared in a standardised way so that information can be shared between different systems more easily. NHS […]
TPP achieves GP Connect full roll out approval
TPP has achieved full roll-out approval for Access Record: HTML capability as part of NHS Digital’s GP Connect programme. The programme ensures that staff across the NHS can access vital information from GP practice records and TPP’s full roll-out approval marks a major step forward for the national interoperability initiative. […]
Biogen launches app for people living with multiple sclerosis
Biogen has launched a new app, CleoTM as an everyday digital companion to provide information and support for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as their carers, friends and family. The Cleo App provides information, articles and stories for people living with MS and provides a simple way for […]
Payroll App saves over 300 hours per month
MySBSPay was launched by NHS Shared Business Services towards the end of 2018 to give NHS employees their pay information in a more convenient and understandable format, including the facility to ask common pay-related questions using modern Chatbot technology. With almost 400,000 NHS staff paid via the NHS SBS payroll […]
South, Central and West CSU launches Care Navigation Service
A new Care Navigation Service (CNS) has been created by South, Central and West CSU to bring together a number of patient facing services. The service includes Booking Management Support for hospital and patient transport, PALS & Complaints service and Directory of Services (DoS) support. Liam Williams, SCW’s Director of […]
HTN 100: Matt Hancock, Highland Marketing, Experiential HealthTech, EBO.ai and Big White Wall
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. ‘We must tackle the serious ethical challenges of DNA analysis’ Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s says at the Royal Society this week In a speech this week […]
Health projects awarded £23million
Awarded under the Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) programme jointly run by Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council a series of projects have received £23 million of government funding. The projects include software which enables radiologists to diagnose breast cancer more effectively and gene therapy to combat kidney disease. Life Sciences Minister […]
