NHS Scotland’s chief data officer Albert King has shared insights into Scotland’s ambitions and potential for digital and data across health and care, highlighting Scotland’s “pioneering approach to data and AI in healthcare”, as well as its partnerships with global consultancies and technology companies in demonstrating its “progressive and advanced” […]
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Roadmap for “better adult social care data” from DHSC highlights planned actions for 2024 – 2028
The Department of Health and Social Care has published guidance and a roadmap for better adult social care data, focusing on increasing the quantity and quality of available care data by “joining up health and social care records and harnessing digital technologies”. In the opening chapter, DHSC highlights key principles […]
North Lancashire and South Cumbria pilots AI and teledermoscopy tech
A pilot programme combining AI and teledermoscopy with the aim of diagnosing and treating people with skin cancer earlier is underway in North Lancashire and South Cumbria, and is hoped to enable clinicians to “review more suspected cancer cases in a shorter space of time”. In partnership with medical technology company […]
29 suppliers named in NHS SBS £250m framework for intelligent automation
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has formed a procurement framework worth £250 million including 25 suppliers in order to establish an agreement allowing NHS organisations and public sector bodies to purchase intelligent automation solutions. The framework “provides a contractual vehicle” to support adoption, development and implementation of intelligent automation, with NHS […]
Digital dashboard helping to analyse data on research activity in Newcastle
Research leaders at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using a digital dashboard to analyse data on research activity, which is helping to “inform and embolden” their strategic thinking and planning. The digital dashboard was designed to “establish a robust way to capture accurate data which would underpin […]
Focus on improving core systems and patient empowerment in new digital strategy from Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust has published its new digital strategy, highlighting priorities around utilising technology to improve core clinical systems, empowering patients, advancing the use of information, promoting seamless system-wide working, improving efficiency, and developing safe and secure systems. The new strategy comes as CNTW […]
Study launches to explore AI bone analysis tool for predicting patients’ risk of osteoporosis
A new study led by the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust will test an AI bone analysis tool that provides GPs with a patients’ risk of osteoporosis. Designed to be used during routine x-rays, the tool will be examined for its potential to “increase the very low diagnosis rates” […]
NHS vaccination strategy highlights role of digital services, national data record and NHS App in promoting access, uptake and delivery
NHS England has published the new NHS vaccination strategy, highlighting the role of digital services, a national vaccination data record and the NHS App in promoting access, uptake, and delivery. Bringing together all vaccination programmes, the strategy aims to “start a conversation, within integrated care boards (ICBs) and the wider […]
Milton Keynes University Hospital goes live with inicio’s new mPage for jaundice
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) has gone live with a digital tool, hyperbilirubinemia mPage, from inicio health. The tool automates the charting of bilirubin levels, to ensure that graphing is immediate, automatic, and always available for clinical teams. Available as part of the trust’s EPR, it replaces manual charting, removes paper, and is […]
iPLATO digital framework to support patient recruitment for national cancer trial
Huma health tech company iPLATO is to support patient recruitment for a national oesophageal cancer screening programme through use of its solution framework including deployment of their patient engagement platform, digital patient questionnaires and an online web booking mechanism. The screening study, BEST4, seeks to recruit 120,000 participants; with iPLATO’s […]
