The Dorset Care Record (DCR) is expanding this month to include community physical health data and new datasets such as allergy information and clinic letters. Allergy information from University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and Poole Hospital is to be available this month through the DCR. It means allergy details from […]
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HTN Feature: Digital Mental Health
In a two part feature we explore some of the programmes supporting mental health digitisation. We discuss interoperability, the challenges faced, successes and what is coming up on the horizon. In this part one of the feature we speak with Steve Wightman, MD of Healthcare, and Garry McCord, Chief Strategy […]
Salvation Army goes digital with Person Centred Software
The Salvation Army has introduced a mobile care monitoring system to its care homes from Person Centred Software. The platform will support the care homes digitally plan, record and monitor the care of residents, and remove the paper processes across its group. Nikki Thompson, assistant director for practice and development at […]
Canon Medical CT Scan units deployed by NHS England in response to COVID-19 pandemic
The first NHS hospitals are receiving Canon Medical Systems relocatable CT scan units from NHS England under its COVID-19 recovery plan. The programme is aimed to help Trusts catch up on delayed outpatient CT scans from the Coronavirus lockdown period, and boost imaging capacity to see greater number of patients […]
Cambridge University Hospitals achieves HIMSS Stage 7
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has achieved the highest international quality standard for the use of technology, data and analytics to support the delivery of inpatient care. CUH is now the first healthcare trust in the UK to achieve ‘Stage 7’, the highest rating of the HIMSS Analytics international Electronic Medical Record […]
Royal Devon and Exeter’s Epic go-live week
By David Kwo, EPR consultant and researcher, who provides a first-hand account of the EPR implementation and go-live at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. David has supported the trust as an external EPR assurance agent and advisor. On Saturday 10 October, at 4:45am, the Royal Devon and […]
Kent Community goes live with Rio EPR
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has gone live this month with the core part of the electronic patient record from Servelec. The trust is also in the process of implementing Servelec’s cloud-based interoperability platform Conexes, to share data between systems and apps. The first phase of the EPR programme […]
Trusts go live with Apple Health Records app
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS FT and Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT have become the first hospitals in the UK to enable patients to access medical data through the Health Records app on iPhone. Available from today (7th October), patients will be able to view their consolidated health care records directly on […]
Oxford University Hospitals hits 100% digitisation of surgical histology slides
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust, with support from Royal Philips, has fully digitised its cellular pathology (histopathology) department. One of the early adopters of the technology, all surgical histology and referral slides within the cellular pathology department are now digital and available between OUH and its wider network […]
NHSX updates Records Management Code of Practice
NHSX has updated the Records Management Code of Practice 2020, producing a draft that is now open for wider input and feedback. The draft Records Management Code of Practice 2020 sets out how records relating to health and care should be managed, created, maintained and disposed of appropriately. It builds […]
