Gayle Campbell a pharmacist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has developed a new medications app to support patients take their medications correctly. The app called MedTap, features videos with NHS clinicians to provide answers to common medication questions such as when and how to take pills, what to do about […]
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Health Tech Awards 2019 finalists revealed…
HTN is delighted to announce the entries that have made the shortlist in the Health Tech Awards 2019! The innovative Health Tech Awards sponsored by CCube Solutions celebrate and showcase exceptional projects, teams, partnerships, technology and organisations across health and care that are making a real difference. Our judges have […]
Opinion: The Health System Support Framework: Is it killing the digital transformation that NHSX promised to achieve?
By Dr Michael Brooks, co-founder and chief medical officer, Patient Source and Emergency Medicine Consultant With great anticipation, NHSX was launched to bring modern technology to the NHS and turn the health service into a world leading innovator. Following the introduction of the Health System Support (HSS) Framework, has NHSX […]
Feature: 5 insights for EPMA success
In our latest feature we focus on electronic prescribing and medicines management to share successful implementations, challenges, learnings and advice from 5 organisations and projects. There is strong evidence to suggest that electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems improve safety for patients, reduce the risk of harm and ensure high […]
Hundreds of users access cancer care record in first six days
NHS Wales Informatics Service has announced cancer care records are now available to view in the Welsh Clinical Portal. In just the first 6 days nearly one thousand users have accessed the information. Previously the cancer patient information was only available to Cancer Network Information System Cymru (CaNISC) users, however […]
Industry View: What are the main challenges in healthcare tech?
In the second of a two part series we asked leaders from the industry for their views on the main challenges in healthcare technology and we asked if there is progress to be made, what could be done to address these challenges? In part one of the series we asked our audience […]
Discussion: What are the main challenges in healthcare tech?
In the first of a two part series we asked the HTN audience via LinkedIn for their views on the main challenges in healthcare technology and we asked if there is progress to be made, what could be done to address these challenges? Following a post on LinkedIn on Saturday, 10th August […]
8 EPR suppliers selected on national framework
NHSX and NHS England have published a list of 8 accredited suppliers of electronic patient record solutions, a new section on the Health Systems Support Framework. The framework was created to provide services that support the delivery of integrated care, with the new EPR section to provide access to supplier […]
Interview Series: Martha Currie, Clinical Director, Mable Therapy
In our latest Interview Series we spoke with Martha Currie, Clinical Director at Mable Therapy, a specialist in delivering speech and language therapy through technology. Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your organisation? I love being a paediatric speech and language therapist and have always been fascinated […]
University Hospitals of Leicester agrees 10-year partnership with Nervecentre
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has chosen Nervecentre’s EPR to power is digital transformation plans over the next 10 years. The 10-year strategic partnership with Nervecentre Software is to deliver a Next Generation Electronic Patient Record (EPR) to become a HIMSS 7 certified digital hospital. The Trust has been […]
