Feature by Liquidlogic Hospital bed management and patient flow has always been a challenge, but COVID and the unpredictability of case surges has tested health and social care professionals to the limit. Now, both have a wary eye on the colder months ahead. There are concerns that the triple threat […]
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Grimsby hospital goes live with EPMA
Grimsby hospital has today gone live with its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system on its Amethyst Ward and its Stroke Unit. The hospital becomes the third and final of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust’s EPMA programme, following the system going live at Goole hospital in October 2019, […]
Oxford University spin-out raises £9m for workforce location tool
A hospital workforce AI platform, Navenio, a spin-out of Oxford University has raised £9m in series A funding. The company provides a location-based workforce platform, which can be used to assign tasks to healthcare teams based on their location. Termed Uber for Healthcare, the technology tracks smartphone devices to provide an indoor […]
Lancashire Teaching launches online tool to support patients COVID-19 recovery
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT has developed an online resource to support patients in their initial recovery once discharged following treatment for COVID-19. The online tool has been developed by a group of multi-disciplinary health professionals at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals to provide advice to support discharged patients with physical and mental […]
Digital tool to help spot signs of delirium to be rolled out in Greater Manchester
A digital tool to help spot signs of delirium quickly is to be rolled out to two hospitals in Greater Manchester following success in Salford. The digital tool will support all patients aged 65 or over or with a diagnosis of dementia on admission to hospital. It will now be […]
NHS trust consortium signs 8 year deal with Sectra
A consortium of NHS trusts around the south coast of England has signed an eight year contract renewal with Sectra for its imaging technology. The deal means the trusts part of the group will seamlessly share and access half a million more images across the region and make them available […]
Care homes across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to share digital records
Care homes across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire will for the first time be able to share digital records, following an approved grant from NHS Digital. The project will see the roll-out of the digital record system, Connecting Care, to care homes across the region to share records with hospitals, […]
Bradford Teaching pilots on-demand Telehealth platform
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is partnering with TytoCare, an all-in-one modular device and telehealth platform for on-demand, remote medical examinations. The technology will be used to carry out remote examinations and diagnoses with a cohort of young patients with acute and worsening chronic conditions. The three-month pilot with […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: Machine Learning in Healthcare
In the latest report in the HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked healthcare professionals about machine learning. There were two striking details which emerged from this particular survey question; firstly, inline with our survey article from last week, where respondents overwhelmingly thought positively about the potential […]
£26 million to help hospitals introduce digital prescriptions
25 trusts will see a share of £26 million to be used to introduce digital prescriptions, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced. It means trusts can move away from handwritten prescriptions and adopt digital technologies, with anticipated benefits of reducing medication errors by 30% and to avoid […]
