Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has introduced CardMedic, a communication app designed to help improve health equality and equal access to care, following a reported successful year-long pilot within the maternity department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The app works alongside the trust’s existing interpreting service to support the trust with […]
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Interview: “The key with any innovation is being open to allowing creativity” Kate Warriner, Alder Hey and Liverpool Heart and Chest
For our latest interview we caught up with Kate Warriner, chief digital and transformation officer at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust and chief digital and information officer at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. Kate shared insights on current projects and digital priorities across both organisations, around the digital, data and […]
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust goes live with electronic patient record
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust went live this week (6 June) with its electronic patient record system, replacing previous paper processes, with a digital record. The trust went live at 4am on Thursday, as part of a national programme to introduce an electronic health and social care record to cover […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals shares impact of virtual wards since November launch
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Inhealthcare have shared the impact of the trust’s virtual wards programme, launched in November 2023, to support six pathways within abdominal medicine and surgery and oncology. Introduced as an alternative to admission, or to support earlier discharge for patients requiring daily monitoring, the project […]
Announcing the second group of judges for the Health Tech Awards 2024!
Here at HTN we’re always looking forward to the Health Tech Awards sponsored by CCube Solutions, our annual awards programme designed to shine a spotlight on innovative thinking and best practice in the NHS and beyond. Each year, we gather an experienced and varied group of judges from the health […]
Cambridge University Hospitals consultant awarded funding to explore AI and video to identify gastric cancer
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT Consultant gastroenterologist, Dr Massimiliano di Pietro, has been awarded a funding grant of up to £365,000 to explore how artificial intelligence and video can help identify gastric cancer at an earlier stage. The funding for the programme, part of a wider £6 million Cancer Research UK […]
Barnet Enfield and Haringey and Camden & Islington open market engagement for local risk management and incident reporting system
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust have opened a market engagement exercise ahead of a planned procurement for a local risk management and incident reporting system, seeking information from suppliers to help determine the route to market. The trusts are currently working […]
HL7 International and openEHR International consider aligning standards and specifications
International technical standards bodies HL7 International and openEHR International have announced their intention to explore a closer collaboration, and are jointly considering aligning some standards and specifications. In a joint statement by Rachel Dunscombe, CEO openEHR International and Charles Jaffe, CEO HL7 International, the pair outline how a collaboration could help “deliver […]
Wigan GP utilises digital means to tackle fake medical news
Dr Derek Adu-Sarkodie, GP and clinical lead for workforce and education at Wigan Borough Federated Healthcare, has been using YouTube as a means to tackle fake news about medical conditions and provide information for patients. Over the past two years, Dr Derek has created more than 170 videos covering topics […]
Real-time bed management system launched at Medway Maritime Hospital said to completely change the way the hospital operates
Medway NHS Foundation Trust has shared how a digital bed management system launched in October 2023 at Medway Maritime Hospital has been saving “1,500 hours a month” for clinical staff, thanks to real-time visibility of available beds, digital wristbands for patients, and a new ‘bed turnaround team’. The system provides real-time […]
