Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has been singled out by NHS Digital, as part of its ‘e-nursing’ campaign week, for a pioneering new solution which allows its nurses to use mobile devices to electronically observe its patients. Developed by GOSH Clinical Site Practitioner and nurse, Sarah Newcombe, the solution uses […]
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Feature: Robin Modak, CEO, Genmed
Money is needed but the procurement process has to radically change to deliver the kind of efficient and cost effective NHS service we all deserve ‘We will put more money into the NHS, but there isn’t a magic money tree we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people […]
Nottingham University Hospitals benefits from Nervecentre
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has significantly improved patient flow through its organisation following the deployment of a Bed Management solution from Nervecentre Software. The mobile tool – which gives clinical and operations teams real-time visibility of the patient journey, bed inventory and system bottlenecks – has been incrementally […]
Nurses becoming e-nurses by using Patientrack to enhance frontline care
Patientrack’s electronic observations technology is helping improve nursing clinical workflow in hospitals across the country, where nursing staff agree that the ease of use of the software, together with the support that Patientrack offers, is empowering nurses of all ages to use technology to help improve the patient experience, and […]
HTN August Newsletter
Here we highlight some of the news we covered in August. If you have a health tech story please get in touch by email to news@thehtn.co.uk Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announces tech innovations Ripple Foundation launches its showcase stack North West trusts take ‘giant leap’ in connecting […]
Agfa HealthCare and Australian Capital Territory Government sign contract for Territory-wide Enterprise Imaging
Agfa HealthCare has announced that it has won a competitive tender for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Directorate. A three-plus-four-year contract has been signed to supply the Enterprise Imaging platform for the territory-wide healthcare network. The project kicked off in July, 2017, with an expected go-live in the first […]
Accenture to transform diabetic patient care using data-driven analytics platform
Accenture is collaborating with Roche to improve how diabetes care is managed and delivered through the development of a data-driven core analytics platform for Roche’s digital diabetes ecosystem. The platform and ecosystem will seamlessly connect patients, their caregivers, and healthcare providers with a suite of new digital health services. Under […]
Top universities to deliver new NHS Digital Academy
Three of the world’s top universities are to deliver the new NHS Digital Academy. Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation, The University of Edinburgh and Harvard Medical School will offer a world-class training programme in change management, leadership and clinical informatics to CIOs, CCIOs and aspiring digital leaders. The NHS Digital […]
NHS Digital endorses RCN ‘Every Nurse an E-Nurse Campaign’
NHS Digital has endorsed the Royal College of Nursing’s campaign “Every nurse an e-nurse”, and pledged to play a supporting role in realising the campaign’s ambition. It comes as NHS Digital today launches its first e-nursing week in support of the campaign for a digital-ready workforce. It is estimated that […]
Funding for innovations with the ability to transform cancer screening and diagnosis
A search for innovations with the ability to transform cancer screening, and facilitate earlier and faster diagnosis is underway. SBRI Healthcare – an NHS England investment fund led by the AHSN Network – invites entrepreneurs to apply for up to £1.1 million investment to develop innovations. Since the early 1990s, […]
