Following the news last month of Sarah Wilkinson stepping down as the chief executive of NHS Digital, Simon Bolton has now been appointed as the interim CEO. Simon joins NHS Digital from his role as Chief Information Officer at Test and Trace, a position held since August 2020. Prior to this role, […]
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East Sussex Healthcare starts journey to refresh 5-year digital strategy
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the trusts selected in the latest Digital Aspirant programme, has launched a campaign across its community to support the development of its five-year digital strategy. In March 2021, 32 trusts joined the latest phase of the NHS Digital Aspirant initiative, with seven to receive […]
HTN Awards 2021, further judges announced!
HTN is delighted to announce a further group of confirmed judges to support the Health Tech Awards 2021. The expert judging panel this year includes professionals from NHS England, Health Education England, to Whittington Health NHS Trust, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital. We welcome a range of […]
EPR Feature: Medway NHS Foundation Trust (Allscripts Sunrise EPR)
This week we focus on electronic patient record (EPR) systems across health and care through a series of articles to explore approaches, learnings and advice from health tech leaders. HTN spoke with Michael Beckett, Interim Director of IT at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, to find out about his team’s EPR […]
NHS Digital releases new electronic notification specification for suppliers
A new technical specification for suppliers has been released by NHS Digital – allowing the development and implementation of an electronic notification from Community Pharmacy to GP practices. This means – as just one example of use – that when a patient has had a minor illness consultation, as part […]
New NHS hospital prescriptions data available for COVID-19 researchers
NHSX and NHS Digital have announced that a new data resource for secondary care prescriptions is now available to COVID-19 researchers. The data collection focuses on medicines that are prescribed and administered in hospitals – providing daily information harvested from electronic prescription and administration systems at secondary care NHS trusts […]
UK charity tech: Whizz-Kidz and Somo talk digital change
Much has been said about how the healthcare industry has embraced tech tools like never before. But the Third Sector has also been flexing its to meet audiences’ ever-changing needs during the pandemic, too. To find out more, HTN got in touch with Whizz-Kidz to talk about how the UK […]
NICE launches five-year strategy with focus on data, technologies and innovations
NICE has today published a five-year strategy with an increased focus on new treatments, technologies and innovations. In the strategy the body highlights its four priority areas of focus; ‘rapid, robust, and responsive technology evaluation’, ‘dynamic, living guideline recommendations’, ‘effective guidance uptake to maximise impact’ and ‘leadership in data, research […]
News in brief: MOD contract for PMC solution, openEHR in the Caribbean
There’s plenty of health tech news to start the week with – from the Ministry of Defence’s primary medical care contract, to openEHR in the Caribbean – catch up on anything you might have missed, by reading our news bites this morning. MOD contract for PMC solution delivery The software […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital maturity satisfaction in focus
For our HTN Health Tech Trends Series 2021, supported by InterSystems, we sent out a survey to you – our audience – asking readers to respond to a series of questions around digital maturity satisfaction levels, the best technology your organisations have adopted and how close you are to working […]
