Birmingham and Solihull ICS’s 10-year strategy highlights the key role of data in tackling inequalities, identifying opportunities for intervention, and enhancing understanding of areas of shared priority. The strategy looks to the better use of data and analysis as a means of achieving shared objectives such as delivering on integration, […]
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Feature: adding intelligence to data capture
By Robbie Trower, healthcare sector specialist and channel sales manager at Kodak Alaris. The pandemic has resulted in a sea change to the way the NHS delivers its services. Digital transformation (DX) is transforming operational efficiency, and digital information is increasingly driving service delivery – from statistical analysis, all the […]
Dr Dan Bunstone on utilising digital tech for a population health management approach to hypertension
Dr Dan Bunstone, GP and clinical director of Warrington Innovation Network, has shared how a population health management approach was undertaken in order to proactively manage hypertensive patients through use of the HealthyYou app. Warrington Innovation Network PCN used the UCL partners risk stratification tool to identify more than 2,500 […]
University Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust announces EPR supplier
University Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (UHP) has announced that Epic has been selected as the supplier for the trust’s new EPR, subject to approval of the full business case. UHP notes that Epic already supplies the EPR for Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Trust and has recently been announced as […]
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital strategy highlights plans for digital and data to streamline operations
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s latest strategy, running until 2028, shares the role of digital and data across areas including culture, patient empowerment, and streamlining operations, with the trust’s digital, data and technology plan described as “a vital enabler” in transforming services, enhancing productivity, and offering “truly patient-centred […]
Data linkage, app development and a rare disease prevalence tool: exploring the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2024 report
The Department of Health and Social Care has published the main report for the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2024, with digital, data and technology noted as an underpinning theme to four key priorities: helping patients to get a final diagnosis faster, increasing awareness of rare diseases among professionals, better […]
2024/25 GP contract places focus on role of data from digital telephony systems
NHS England has published the arrangements for the GP contract in 2024/25, highlighting changes around the data from digital telephony systems and vaccinations services as well as the need to use digital tools to identify catchment areas. In 2024/25 practices will be required to provide data on eight metrics around […]
NHSE publishes guidance on network segmentation for cyber security
NHS England has published guidance on network segmentation for healthcare staff members responsible for the architecture, design, implementation and maintenance of their network security, sharing oversight of how network segmentation can prevent or mitigate lateral movement across a network in the event of a cyber attack. Network segmentation is described […]
University of Leeds researcher develops AI device designed to predict acute kidney injury
A research team from the University of Leeds has developed an artificial intelligence device said to be capable of predicting acute kidney injury (AKI), following a grant of £220,000 from Kidney Research UK in partnership with the Stoneygate Trust. The team, led by Dr Sergei Krivov, used historical patient records […]
Panel discussion: driving patient outcomes through health tech “It’s about working with patients to work with demand”
For our latest thought leadership HTN Now panel discussion, we focused on driving patient outcomes through health tech, featuring panellists Dr Penny Kechagioglou (chief clinical information officer and deputy chief medical officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire); Chris Nortcliff (digital lead at Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board); and […]
