The Professional Record Standards Body has published a new standard for sharing clinical referral information, which will help to reduce avoidable referrals, speed up treatment times and make care better and safer for patients. Referrals to hospital are increasing as more people continue to live longer with a range of […]
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Digital maternity notes at Epsom and St Helier
Pregnant women being cared for by Epsom and St Helier hospitals are now able to access all of their maternity medical notes, including details of any blood test results and reminders about their appointments (and soon, their scan reports), through a secure digital record that is available as an app. […]
HTN partners with eGPlearning
To support the sharing of health tech news and insight we are delighted to have sponsored eGPlearning a Podblast series to help clinicians and patients learn and understand about health technology and the implications for UK primary care and health care. The eGPlearning podblast is cohosted by Dr Hussain Gandhi […]
Greater Manchester and Shaping Cloud to identify cloud strategy
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSC Partnership) and IT specialists Shaping Cloud is undertaking an ‘asset review’ that will baseline current infrastructure used across 20 NHS and local government organisations involved in the GMHSC Partnership. This review aims to identify what software applications are in use across the region […]
New technology can detect hundreds of proteins in a single sample
New technology developed by a team of McGill University scientists shows potential to streamline the analysis of proteins, offering a quick, high volume and cost-effective tool to hospitals and research labs alike. Proteins found in blood provide scientists and clinicians with key information on our health. These biological markers can […]
Servelec and Microtest announce Mental Health and GP system integration
Servelec and Microtest have successfully integrated the Servelec RiO electronic patient record product for mental and community health with Microtest’s Open Evolution clinical IT system for GP practices to support the sharing of patient records. This integration will provide RiO users secure access to clinical information held in Microtest’s GP […]
HTN 100: Outcome feedback technology, Milton Keynes NHS FT and Oldham CCG
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. Expected treatment response Outcome Feedback is an innovative new technology […]
£400m tender announced by Manchester University NHS FT
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has begun an open procurement process with interested suppliers for a future Electronic Patient Record solution. MFT is now the largest Trust in the UK and is responsible for running a family of nine hospitals across six separate sites, providing a wide range of services. […]
Highland Marketing: the importance of an integrated campaign
In the last of her series on how marketing and PR can support sales activity, Becky Mellor explains why an effective campaign is like Sudoku: you can’t just rely on one square for the answer, and all the elements have to work together to deliver the right outcome. “Most marketing […]
A&E clinicians go electronic to ‘transform’ care in South Tees
Thousands of patients are receiving better, safer and speedier emergency care after A&E clinicians in South Tees ditched paper records for Symphony, EMIS Health’s urgent and emergency care system. Chief clinical Information officer and emergency medicine consultant Andrew Adair said: “We never expected that going digital would transform everything about […]
