The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) has announced plans to move to a single electronic patient record across the region. The procurement is being led by the Lancashire Procurement Cluster (hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust), with the programme to include Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East […]
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Kettering General publishes cloud-first policy strategy
Kettering General Hospital NHS FT has published its cloud-first policy, part of the digital strategy for the organisation, outlining its plans to achieve a zero or minimal data-centre footprint by July 2024. Its cloud-first strategy highlights that from next year the trust will not look to procure new services that […]
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS FT goes live with EPIC over the weekend
At 4:45am on Saturday 10th October, the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust went live with EPIC, under the name MY CARE. The trust said the programme was the biggest clinical transformation programme they have ever undertaken, two and a half years in the making to the point of go-live. […]
HTN Now November registration now open
Join us on 3rd and 4th November for HTN for the Now, two days of online sessions to hear from health and care teams across the country. HTN Now is a new series ‘for the moment’ or ‘for the now’, where we curate a series of sessions to support our continued […]
Video: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Health Education England discusses digital capabilities
For Day Two of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy Workstream Lead at Health Education England. Henrietta presented a session on ‘digital literacy’ and the importance of digital capabilities in the delivery of health and social care. Henrietta said: “Health Education England is embarking on a massive piece of work […]
Video: Peter Thomas, Director of Digital Innovation, Moorfields Eye Hospital discusses digital innovations
For Day One of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Peter Thomas, Director of Digital Innovation and Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS FT. Peter talked about the digital innovation programme at Moorfields Eye Hospital with a particular focus on the introduction of remote consultations, remote monitoring, shared care with community […]
Andrew Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital: The next Cyber Attack – Will it or won’t it hurt?
By Andrew Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital The cyber threat to health and care has never been more prevalent it seems than now. The pandemic has seen an increase in ripples of spam and phishing attempts, but in more recent years the real threat to our systems which support services […]
COVID-19 modelling and demand predictions report published
A new report has been published to explore a second wave of COVID-19 cases and potential response strategies for NHS trusts. Using advanced analytics and data modelling, the report highlights some important areas of consideration to support response planning and modelling in readiness for a potential second wave. The report […]
10 medium stage suppliers join NHS AI Lab for wider adoption
10 medium stage health tech suppliers have been successful in the AI in Health and Care Award programme, part of the NHS AI Lab. The suppliers form part of 42 successful projects announced today to receive funding across four phases. The 10 suppliers in phase 4 includes medium stage AI technologies […]
Case Study: Lincolnshire – leading the healthcare information revolution
Lincolnshire is using the latest technology to enable healthcare professionals to share patient records Many of the challenges facing the NHS are writ large in Lincolnshire. The second largest county in England, over half of its population live in rural locations and, with one in ten residents over the age […]
