Patients and staff at a north-west NHS trust are starting to see the high-impact benefits of technology-enabled care after the introduction of early warning and alerting technology Patientrack. The system is helping healthcare professionals across 55 wards at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust quickly identify the sickest […]
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Horder Healthcare picks IMS MAXIMS
Horder Healthcare is to deploy an electronic patient record (EPR) from software provider IMS MAXIMS, in order to improve care for thousands of patients and facilitate its digital journey to align it with the NHS’s ambition of paperless at the point of care by 2020. The commitment will enable the […]
Development roadmap for e-referrals announced
NHS Digital has produced a roadmap for system enhancements to the NHS e-Referral Service up to October 2018. NHS Digital is working with development partner BJSS to deliver new features and improve the user experience in readiness for the October 2018 deadline. This is when all consultant-led first outpatient appointments need to be made […]
More companies are embracing online GP services, could they help ease the NHS crisis
A view from Soraya Chamberlain, Director of Corporate Health & Wellbeing at Punter Southall Health & Protection It’s been impossible to avoid recent headlines focusing on the mounting pressures upon NHS services. This month’s warning from Red Cross – regarded by many as unprecedented – that hospitals in England are […]
Doctify launches new review app
Patients can now quickly review a practice and clinician with ease thanks to a new tool from Doctify. The review systems extends the Doctify platform which provides healthcare specialists with software to help them manage their patient bookings, reduce no shows and collect reviews through an automated review system. Stephanie […]
Plymouth achieves milestone for NHS savings
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has achieved a major financial transaction milestone as part of the NHS drive to use GS1 standards to allow every NHS hospital in England to save an average of £3 million annually through improved patient safety, greater regulatory compliance and widespread operational efficiencies. As the largest […]
iMDsoft secures position on the NHS LPP Clinical and Digital Information Systems framework
The offering from iMDsoft as part of the London Procurement Partnership’s CDIS framework was deemed the “most economically advantageous tender”. The company, a leader in clinical information systems, announced that they have been awarded a position on the NHS London Procurement Partnership Clinical and Digital Information Systems (CDIS) framework for […]
CCube supports child development at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has installed CCube Solutions’ eForms software to create a computer-based system to display children’s growth records. It is the first end-to-end system allowing medical users across multiple sites to record and view children’s growth chart data via a portal, as well as allowing data to […]
App launched by East Kent NHS Trust to reduce a&e waiting times
A smartphone app designed to cut waiting times at accident and emergency departments in east Kent has been launched by the NHS. The WaitLess app combines current waiting times at all urgent care centres – drawn from the official NHS system – with up-to-the-minute travel information, to help people decide […]
EMIS Health and Diabetes UK partner for better diabetes care for thousands
GPs and Practice Nurses across the country are improving care for thousands of patients with type 2 diabetes, thanks to a partnership between EMIS Health and Diabetes UK. Diabetes UK has developed information prescriptions that not only alert clinicians to key information on their patients’ condition during consultations, but give […]
