Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) is celebrating this month as the number of young people able to access its award winning secure text messaging service, ChatHealth, reaches one million.ChatHealth is a web-based text messaging service which ChatHealth is a web-based text messaging service which young people of secondary school age […]
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NHS Digital extends programme to widen participation in digital health
NHS Digital aims to help thousands of people to improve their digital health skills, with the launch of the next phase of a three-year Widening Digital Participation (WDP) programme. The project will develop 20 local digital inclusion pathfinder projects across all four NHS regions, over the next three years. The […]
ABHB on track to clear backlog with Synapse Home Reporting
Aneurin Bevan Health Board has introduced 16 new Synapse Home Reporting systems across South Wales. Aneurin Bevan Health Board (ABHB) covers seven hospitals across Gwent and is part of the Synapse PACS Wales network. “The Fujifilm home reporting solutions we acquired have been extremely well received by our radiologists” said […]
CSC Partners with Draper & Dash to transform data visualisation
CSC has announced a partnership with Draper & Dash, London based specialists in enterprise wide healthcare analytics and data visualisation. Under the agreement, CSC will serve as reseller for Draper & Dash in Australia and New Zealand, offering hospitals and health services more than 20 proven dashboards that are rapidly […]
New, faster Vision Appointments App now centrally funded through GPSoC
CCGs can now order Vision’s new Appointments App under the GPSoC framework. The app, available for order and deployment to practices free of charge, is set to cut typical appointment booking time in half. This frees up valuable admin time and reduces wait times for patients while booking or changing […]
Electronic records enable safer hospital care for Ayrshire patients
A multidisciplinary team is giving safer, more efficient care to vulnerable patients in an Ayrshire hospital, with the help of two-way record sharing via EMIS Health. More than 50 staff – including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists – have switched from paper records to the EMIS […]
Opinion Piece: Backup and recovery in healthcare – what’s virtualization got to do with it?
By Chris Welch, Product Manager – RAPid, BridgeHead Software For the enterprise, virtualization is not a new concept – it’s been doing the rounds for over 10 years and Gartner officially labelled the technology ‘mature’ in its May 2016 market report. And no wonder; it’s hard to argue against the […]
World’s first Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System to be installed
The first CARESTREAM OnSight 3D Extremity System in the world is to be installed at Cobalt Health’s Imaging Centre, Cheltenham, in the south west of England. Cobalt, a medical charity, has a history of assisting in the adoption of new services into the NHS by early investment in new technologies […]
Feature: Introducing Viper360 clinical data view platform from ReStart
Since 2008 ReStart Consulting Ltd (ReStart) has provided integration services and support to over sixty NHS organisations and has developed, deployed and maintained over 1,000 interfaces. The team of experienced consultants has worked with most clinical and administrative systems used by the NHS (including some of the very obscure ones) […]
NHS Digital Industry Briefing
NHS Digital is hosting an industry briefing on Tuesday 21st March, 2pm – 4pm. The briefing will be a webinar, jointly hosted by Beverley Bryant, NHS Digital Director of Digital Transformation and techUK. The briefing will provide: An update of NHS Digital’s work including the “paperless 2020” programmes commissioned by […]
