Accurx has partnered with Tandem Health, a European health tech company, to launch an AI scribe tool for use across the NHS. The tool supports transcribing, summarising and coding of patient consultations into the clinical record, with the ability to write back to EMIS and SystmOne. It is said to […]
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HTN Now: Virtual wards in practice: approaches, learnings, and what does the future look like
For a recent HTN Now webinar on the topic of virtual wards, we were joined by a panel of experts including Francesca Markland, senior programme manager for remote monitoring and virtual wards at NHS England; Fhezan Ashraf, senior pharmacist clinical configuration manager at The Dudley Group; and Abigail Scullion, virtual […]
NHS App roadmap outlines health records, appointments, prescriptions, integrated services, and messaging plans
NHS England has published its latest roadmap for the future of the NHS App, highlighting aims to increase users’ ability to self-serve, support operational efficiency and costs, and to design the app to support health system performance indicators. The roadmap covers health records, appointments, prescriptions, integrated services, messaging, design and […]
News in brief: Dorset women’s health website, falls prevention tech, Kent and Medway’s digital and data involvement group
Let’s take a look at some of the latest health tech stories to have caught our eye over the last few weeks. First citizens recruited to Kent and Medway Digital and Data Involvement Group 16 “digital citizens” have been recruited to Kent and Medway’s Digital and Data Involvement Group, set […]
Feature: Nervecentre on breaking down barriers, a vision for seamless NHS care
By Nervecentre At the beginning of the year, Nervecentre marked its 15th anniversary with the NHS at a pivotal moment in frontline digitisation. 15 years ago, in the final gasps of NPfIT, the primary focus of healthcare technology was on data capture and record-keeping, with early EPR systems giving acute […]
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS goes live with CCube electronic document management system, by Noveva
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the CCube electronic document management system by Noveva Software Group, this month. The platform has gone live across the trust, following a migration of 8 million digital documents from the previous incumbent Kainos Evolve system. The trust’s in-house scanning bureau […]
Suffolk and North East Essex ICB shared care record strategy, ICS cyber plans, social care integration
Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) ICB, has shared an update on digital progress as part of the board’s latest meeting in March, highlighting work underway and benefits realisation on shared care records, future systems, digitising social care, EPR, and more. Priorities that the system is working toward span an […]
Pan American Health Organization launches virtual digital literacy programme
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched a new virtual digital literacy programme aimed at supporting the digital skills of health workers across the Americas and supporting the use of emerging technologies in health and care. PAHO notes all health workers are encouraged to register for the free course, […]
Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate shares latest cohort of startups deploying AI
The Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has shared an update on its latest cohort of 15 health tech startups, who are utilising AI to solve health challenges from monitoring heart and lung conditions to detecting alcohol use, tracking disease progression, and predicting life-threatening complications. Startups are involved from across the globe, each […]
Feature: InterSystems on EPRs and the future direction of EPRs
By Gary Mooney, InterSystems Electronic Patient Records (EPR) solutions, sometimes referred to as Electronic Health Records (EHR), are critical for the ongoing transformation of healthcare delivery, enhancing patient safety, clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, financial performance, and patient experience. However, widespread adoption reveals persistent challenges, including interoperability issues, poor user experience, […]
