NHS England has opened a new opportunity inviting systems and providers to participate in a new Provider Collaborative Innovators scheme. The programme aims to support 7-9 collaboratives address key challenges, shape service improvement and deliver mid to long term transformation. In a letter to ICBs and NHS trusts, NHS England notes: […]
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NHS Tayside publishes new digital strategy for 2022-27
NHS Tayside has released a new Digital Health and Social Care Strategy for 2022-2027, aiming to help people live longer, healthier, and happier lives using digital health technology. The strategy opens with a foreword breaking down the rationale of developing a digital strategy. It explains: “Digital strategy isn’t just about building […]
Review explores technical, ethical, legal and societal challenges of digital twin systems for children and young people
A review has been shared in JMIR Publications entitled ‘Technical, ethical, legal, and societal challenges with digital twin systems for the management of chronic diseases in children and young people”. Authors David Drummond and Adrien Coulet begin by providing some background context, defining a digital twin as “using the internet […]
Study explores prevalence and sources of duplicate content in electronic medical records
A new study, published at JAMA Network Open and entitled ‘Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record’, aims to set out how much duplicate content is present in electronic medical records (EMR), where the duplication comes from, and why it exists. Authors Jackson Steinkamp, Jacob J. […]
Dr Tamara Everington, CCIO, on Hampshire Hospitals improvement strategy
Welcome back to another podcast episode of HTN Let’s Talk! In this episode we interview Dr Tamara Everington, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Haematology Consultant at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We speak about their improvement framework, what to think about before buying a digital solution, how to measure improvement and […]
Camden and Islington NHS publishes annual report and digital priorities
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has published its annual report for 2021/22, which details its successes over the past year along with continuing ambitions and improvement aims, including its digital strategy. The report set out four key aims to reduce health inequalities, improve outcomes for service users, eliminate unwarranted […]
International researchers propose framework to improve use of healthcare data in studies
An international team of researchers have proposed a framework to improve the integrity and quality of studies using structured healthcare data from electronic health records, along with using the results for clinical decision support. Published in The BMJ, Lancet Digital Health and European Heart Journal, the approach was coordinated by […]
Interview: Chris Mason, CIO at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chris Mason, Chief Information Officer at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH), joined HTN for our latest interview. WUTH is one of the largest and busiest acute NHS trusts in the North West of England, serving a population of more than 320,000. Operating three hospitals at two sites […]
Featured interview: Open Medical’s Director of Innovation Piyush Mahapatra on cloud technology
This September, we’re taking a focus on cloud here at HTN. We spoke to Piyush Mahapatra, Director of Innovation at Open Medical, for a featured interview; Piyush discussed some of the cloud projects he has been involved in, how cloud technology can be used to support new clinical pathways and […]
DHSC publish secure data environment policy guidelines
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has this month published secure data environment policy guidelines, to “set out clear rules for how secure data environments will be used to access NHS health and social care data for research and analysis”. The new guidelines come after the ‘Data saves […]
