Secretary of State Matt Hancock will set out plans to give 3.1 million health and care staff in England a voice in the day-to-day creation of policy. He is launching a new digital platform called ‘TalkHealthandCare’, which staff can use to post ideas, questions and challenges for government. The platform will […]
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The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance makes it easier to share records
The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has announced a major adoption of the FHIR interfacing standard to make easier the sharing of health and care information and to stimulate digital innovation. The companies are launching cloud-based platforms which offer customers and authorised third parties a package of open APIs […]
Great Ormond Street Hospital implements Elsevier’s Clinical Pathways solution
GOSH has implemented Elsevier’s Clinical Pathways solution, Arezzo, in its Endocrinology and Metabolic unit to reduce the time doctors and nurses spend on paper-based administrative tasks. GOSH is using Arezzo which takes medical guidelines, protocols, and order sets, combines them with relevant patient information and presents personalised patient pathways and testing […]
Allscripts appointed to Health Systems Support Framework
Allscripts has secured a place on the Health Systems Support Framework that has been issued by NHS England. The framework contract has been developed to support the Five Year Forward View and Ten Year Plan agenda of integrated health and care services, population-level analysis and planning, and patient engagement. It will […]
Interview: Rob Brougham, UK MD of Ieso Digital Health
In our latest interview series, we spoke with Rob Brougham, UK MD of Ieso Digital Health. Ieso is a provider of digitally-enabled mental health care and delivers evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy online (CBT) to patients suffering from depression, anxiety and other common mental health conditions. By combining the power of technology with […]
New guidance for AI to benefit NHS
A new code of conduct for artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies will allow NHS patients to benefit from the latest innovations. Speaking at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo conference, health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy announced the initial technology partnerships Code of Conduct for Data-driven Health and Care […]
Canon Medical Research receives £140k to develop AI-powered cancer assessment prototype
Canon Medical Research Europe has been awarded £140,000 to develop a prototype that combines Artificial Intelligence and medical imaging technology to improve assessment for one of the most difficult cancers to manage, Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM). The Cancer Innovation Challenge aims to inspire novel data and technology innovations to help […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust benefits from Imprivata
Imprivata® has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed Imprivata OneSign® Single Sign-On, Imprivata Medical Device Access and Imprivata Authentication Management® platform to deliver real-time patient data to inform clinical decisions and streamline system access without weakening secure practices. The combined solution enables clinicians to securely access the Welch […]
HTN 100: Innovative treatment for depression and MYHEALTH@QEHB
HTN 100 is a 100 word challenge to help share health tech projects and learnings. In 100 words we want to hear about the technology you are using, the benefits, successes and tips. HTN 100 will be published every Friday! To participate email news@thehtn.co.uk. Innovative treatment for depression Alex O’Neill-Kerr, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS […]
150 trusts switch to e-referral service
NHS Digital has announced a total of 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have made the move to sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments through the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) and managed to beat the 1 October deadline to fully move to e-RS. Trusts that have already […]
