In our latest interview, we speak to Dr Constantin Jabarin, chief clinical information officer, EMEA and James Hodgin, solution director, EMEA from Allscripts, the company behind the Sunrise Acute Care electronic patient record and the dbMotion information sharing platform. We talk about how the solutions have been supporting The Dudley […]
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Blackpool Teaching signs with CCube Solutions to digitise records
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £1.2 million contact with CCube Solutions to transform the way patient records are stored. The trust has partnered with the company to adopt its Electronic Document & Records Management System which has proven successful at other trusts. The trust said “the […]
Industry View: Healthcare experts react to the NHS clinical communication tools contract
NHSX last month launched its Clinical Communications Procurement Framework and announced the 25 suppliers that were successful. The framework was launched to help organisations remove pagers and quickly adopt clinical facing communication and task management tools that have been through an NHSX assessment process. HTN asked the industry and some of the […]
Research highlights digital therapeutic app helps insomnia and depressive symptoms
New research published today in the Journal of Sleep Research has highlighted positive effects of Sleepio a digital therapeutic programme. Big Health, the company behind the programme, has announced the results of the study to highlight positive effects of their digital sleep improvement programme to make improvements in depressive symptoms. The study examined […]
Video: Starting out as a new nurse information officer
As part of HTN Digital Week June 2020, we welcomed Helen McGuire and Ainhoa Arjona, to present their experience of their new role as Assistant Nursing Information Officers (ANIO) at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The ANIO role is to improve nursing practice through technology to optimise […]
Healthcare app used by British Army to connect deployed medics
Health tech supplier Pando has partnered with the British Army for its clinical communications app to keep deployed medical staff from the Defence Medical Services connected whilst in the field. The trial of Pando is part of Project LARA, an initiative to develop a suite of telemedicine capabilities to reduce the […]
Health tech specialist launches melanoma screening test for primary care
Moletest, a British based health tech company, has launched a new tool to support primary care providers with screening for skin lesions suspected of melanoma. The company hopes the tool can substantially reduce the number of unnecessary dermatology referrals to secondary care by over 50% by using the rule-out screening test for […]
University of Sheffield app supports motor neurone disease patients
A new app developed by the University of Sheffield and tech company ADI, has gone live at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT to support patients living with motor neurone disease (MND) who are receiving remote care. The trust accelerated the roll-out of the app, ahead of a planned system for remote […]
Barts Health launches new app to aid Covid-19 recovery
Barts Health NHS Trust has launched a new rehabilitation app to aid recovery of Covid-19. The app has been developed by health tech company Living With, along with clinicians from Barts Health and University College London researchers. In late 2019, University College London Hospital launched a version of the app to help […]
Babylon publishes research report on AI in primary care
A research paper has been published in Nature Communications by a team of Babylon scientists that has explored the use of machine learning in primary care. The paper, titled ‘Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning’, explores the use of AI, believed to be a first , […]
