North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Integrated Care System (ICS) joined us at one of our HTN Now Focus events last year, sharing insights into how digital innovations and ideas can support ICSs, as the 42 new organisations develop across England and await their formal creation. As their example, the […]
Tag: Interoperability
Rotherham health app integrates primary and secondary care services
A patient app in Rotherham is allowing residents to access both primary and secondary care services through one integrated platform. The Rotherham Health App displays both hospital and GP information to service users, via the application, and allows them to access a service directory, self refer, book assessments, and amend […]
Report highlights five recommendations for interoperable health records
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published a new report that focuses on interoperability of health and care records. The document – entitled ‘The Digital Advantage – Realising the benefits of interoperability for health and social care in England’ – highlights five new recommendations needed for a new, […]
DHSC publishes new proposals for health and care integration
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published a new set of government proposals for health and social care integration, including dedicated sections on digital and data. Entitled, ‘Health and social care integration: joining up care for people, places and populations‘, the white paper sets out wide ranging […]
Video: North East and North Cumbria ICS shares its digital care programme and approach
In October, for HTN Now Focus, our online event for Integrated Care Systems, HTN welcomed Dr Mark Dornan, GP and co-chair at Newcastle Gateshead CCG and SRO for Digital Care Programmes at North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS), to the virtual stage. Dr Dornan shared North East […]
Health Education England launches Population Health Digital Toolkit
Health Education England has launched a new resource to help provide insight and knowledge into population health. Its Population Health Digital Toolkit is aimed at health and care learners to develop their understanding of population health principles, helping them achieve competencies in areas such as population health data, health inequalities, population […]
Kent and Medway ICS goes live with new shared care record
Kent and Medway Integrated Care System (ICS) has gone live with its shared care record – the CareCentric system from Graphnet. The Kent and Medway Care Record (KMCR) was commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway CCG, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, Kent County Council and Medway Council. It will […]
Video: Coventry and Warwickshire HCP share integrated care record experience
We complete our look back at the HTN Now September 2021 content with a review of a live webcast focusing on integrated care records (ICRs). For this session we were joined by Danny Roberts, Programme Director, and Jayne Rooke, Programme Manager, to talk about the Coventry and Warwickshire Health and […]
Video: Healthcare Gateway and SCW CSU explain how Connecting Care can benefit care homes and the justice system
Our closing webcast session for HTN Now September 2021 was a presentation by representatives from Healthcare Gateway and the South, Central and West (SCW) Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) – an NHS support and transformation service. Bringing our four-day live online event to a close with an in-depth look at the […]
InterSystems to assist with global integration of Cognetivity’s AI platform for early dementia detection
InterSystems has partnered with the healthcare company Cognetivity to support an AI solution that it says can detect dementia ‘up to 15 years earlier’ than conventional methods. Cognetivity uses the advanced data management and integration capabilities of InterSystems IRIS for Health to efficiently deploy across clinical environments its Integrated Cognitive Assessment […]
