The Irish Department of Health has published Ireland’s digital health framework for 2024 – 2030, setting out a roadmap for digital transformation across the nation’s health services covering the roll-out of a shared care record, the deployment of electronic health records (EHRs), a new patient app, and more. A “key […]
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NHSE to incentivise and increase virtual ward use and support front door services and flow through emergency departments
NHS England has shared plans to increase virtual ward use with NHSE correspondence sent to every local hospital and health system setting out actions hoped to increase urgent and emergency care performance, including plans for a new virtual wards operational framework and funding incentives to support front door services and […]
Interview: “The multidisciplinary team approach has always been valued in healthcare, but I think it’s never been more important”, Sonam Vadera, speciality registrar in clinical radiology and fellow in clinical AI
For a recent HTN interview, we caught up with Dr Sonam Vadera, specialty registrar in clinical radiology at University Hospitals of Leicester and fellow in clinical artificial intelligence at the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare in London. Sonam shared with us some insights and details around her current research, […]
£48 million announced to fund capabilities relating to digital pathways, demand and capacity tools for ICBs
Funding of £48 million has been announced for 2024/25 as part of a framework to support integrated care boards with capabilities relating to digital pathways and demand and capacity tools. The framework aims to “enable ICBs to take advantage of the available funding to support uplifted digital tools” in line with […]
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Digital Vision 2024 sets out initiatives including new shared care record
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB’s ‘Digital Vision 2024’ sets out the organisation’s digital roadmap and digital initiatives, including the introduction of One Care Connected, a new shared care record aiming to link NHS and local government organisations. Alongside this, the ICB shares priorities including the development of a set of digital […]
SBRI Healthcare awards £3.2m to 22 innovations designed to “improve care and accelerate a greener NHS”
SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Healthcare, in collaboration with the Greener NHS programme and the Health Innovation Network, has awarded £3.2 million to 22 innovations designed to help “improve care and accelerate a greener NHS”, with recipients including an AI-based predictive tool for pressure ulcers; a neurorehabilitation app designed to […]
Interview: “The impact starts with small transformations” Inderpal Kohli, VP and CIO at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey
Over on our sister site HTN International, we shared our interview with Inderpal Kohli, vice president and chief information officer at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey, to hear his insights on digital transformation, projects, priorities and challenges in the digital health space. Inderpal introduced himself by explaining how his career has been […]
Digital transformation from a finance perspective: insights from Jonathan Lee, assistant director for business and finance at Digital Notts
Jonathan Lee, assistant director for business and finance at Digital Notts, shares his insights on the benefits of closer links between digital and finance in healthcare in this blog for HTN. A qualified accountant, Jonathan brings a wealth of experience gained from working at a senior level in a number […]
“We are seeing general practice telephone queue times halving within six months” Max Gattlin and Sharon Hanley of Hanley Consulting
We recently sat down with Max Gattlin and Sharon Hanley of Hanley Consulting, for a chat about their ‘Automated Assistant for General Practice’ EDATT (Enabling Digital Access Through Telephony), their drive to optimise access and experience for patients, and their overall mission to help reduce pressure on primary care and […]
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust moves to CCube Cloud
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, partnering with CCube Solutions, is moving its electronic document and records management system (EDMS) to CCube’s cloud-based EDMS platform, CCube Cloud. The move will see the trust upgrade its EDMS from a locally hosted and locally managed platform, to EDMS as a cloud service, […]
