Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTH) has successfully transitioned to a paperless environment in its critical care units, where complex workflows and heavy documentation requirements abound. A team at LTH was tasked to determine how the extensive documentation requirements would be handled in the EPR. Among many features, the […]
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West of Scotland creates regional portal
Scottish health boards covering a population of 2.2 million people are able to share patient information now that a two-year project to create a regional portal has been completed. Five West of Scotland health boards are covered by the project to link their Orion Health portals, with NHS Dumfries and […]
First NHS Online app is live in the London borough of Bexley
Healthy London Partnership has launched an app – NHS Online – designed to provide accurate, non-urgent medical advice to more than 240,000 Bexley residents, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The app is being piloted in Bexley, south-east London. The Bexley version of the app, NHS Online Bexley, […]
University Hospital Southampton introduces electronic whiteboards to improve patient safety
Staff at Southampton’s teaching hospitals are introducing interactive whiteboards on wards as part of a major digital transformation project. The touchscreen technology displays information taken directly from a patient’s electronic record, including clinical alerts such as existing medical conditions, length of admission and predicted discharge date. It also acts as […]
NHS England leads battle against obesity and Type 2 diabetes
NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK have teamed up with leading companies from the tech sector as the battle against obesity and Type 2 diabetes goes digital. More than 5,000 people are expected to benefit from a pilot project which will see five companies and eight areas of the country […]
Doctor on demand service ZoomDoc announces crowdfunding
ZoomDoc, the new GP on-demand service, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £500,000. Founded by practicing NHS GP, Dr. Kenny Livingstone, ZoomDoc, is a revolutionary healthtech service that allows users to instantly book a GP to arrive at their preferred location within one hour. The app, soft-launched in March […]
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust links vital signs monitors with EPR
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust reports saving some 5,800 hours of nursing time since the introduction of vital signs monitoring devices from Welch Allyn, a subsidiary of global medical technology company Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC). Nursing staff are using the Welch Allyn® Connex® monitoring devices across hundreds of beds to capture […]
Barnsley benefits from collated live datasets
In accordance with NICE guidelines, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust needed to develop a way of identifying newly admitted patients and their locations within the hospital. In effect a real time patient tracking tool was required allowing patient identification and the subsequent evidencing of medicines reconciliation data capture. Barnsley Hospital […]
Rowlands’ ProScript Connect rollout passes 300 pharmacies milestone
The latest version of the ProScript Connect dispensary management system from EMIS Health is now live in 300 Rowlands Pharmacy branches, marking a significant milestone in the planned upgrade of all 529 branches across the United Kingdom. Rowlands began staged deployment of ProScript Connect in May 2017 following a thorough due diligence […]
InterSystems recognised as a challenger in 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Among 11 vendors, InterSystems has been recognised as one of only two companies as a challenger in the Magic Quadrant for operational database management systems from the industry analyst firm Gartner for its Caché high-performance database. This Magic Quadrant for operational database management systems evaluates companies based on their completeness of vision […]
