Three NHS trusts and NHS England have approved a financial plan for a shared electronic patient record system. Following approval of the outline business case, The Queen Elizabeth Hospitals King’s Lynn NHS FT, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT and James Paget University Hospitals NHS FT now have the go-ahead to procure […]
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Mid and South Essex ICS explores unified electronic patient record
A prior information notice has been published by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System to procure a unified electronic patient record system. Essex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust are currently at the outline business case stage to procure and replace their existing electronic […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ publishes review of IT critical incident
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has published a final report following a series of reviews into an IT critical incident on 19 July when two separate data centres suffered failures. The review collates a series of investigations, covering the trust’s methodology, timeline of events, main findings and recommendations for […]
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS digital strategy in focus
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS’s digital strategy is available in text and video format, covering their visions, goals, digital strategy mission and actions for the future. The strategy opens with a comment from Dr Jane Haplin, CEO and SRO For Digital Transformation Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. Dr Haplin highlights the […]
Royal Marsden counts down to EHR launch
The Royal Marsden NHS FT has started to count down to the launch of Connect, its new electronic health record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, Epic will be introduced across the trust in March 2023. This month has seen the […]
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust shares digital strategy until 2025
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has published its digital strategy and plans for the next three years. The strategy opens with comments from chief clinical information officer, Ashley May, in which she states: “I believe that digital systems can support long-term change and improvement in this trust. It […]
Feature: How remote monitoring is key for NHS recovery and transformation
Our latest feature comes from Inhealthcare, and covers the topic of how “remote monitoring is the golden thread that runs through NHS recovery and transformation.” By Bryn Sage, CEO of Inhealthcare If anything can help tackle the current and future challenges facing healthcare, remote monitoring can. In guidance for 2023/4, […]
£480 million NHS Federated Data Platform tender opens
NHS England has opened a tender process to procure a federated data platform for the NHS. It is anticipated the contract value will be £360 million for five years, with an option for two 12-month extensions worth £120 million. The platform will be owned and controlled by the NHS, where […]
£150 million AI and extended reality technologies framework planned
NHS Shared Business Services has published a prior information notice of a planned purchasing framework for artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies. The indicative value of the framework is £150 million over four years from August 2023. NHS Shared Business Services intends to launch a tender process to put in […]
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care in 2023?
To kick off our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems for 2023, we shared a poll with our audience of health tech professionals to gather their opinions on where the main priorities should lay for digital primary care this year. 106 people have voted since we posted our poll […]
