Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s heart failure virtual ward has introduced use of the remote monitoring KiActiv digital service with the aim of improving recovery rates for patients experiencing serious cardiac conditions. KiActiv combines an online platform with a wearable device that collects personalised data about the user’s everyday […]
Tag: VirtualCare
Monash IVF goes live with OX.DH’s digital patient onboarding platform
Monash IVF, a fertility service provider in Australia and South East Asia, has launched the digital patient onboarding platform powered by OX.DH’s assisted reproduction (OX.ar) technology, with the expectation that the platform will eliminate the need for around 50,000 paper forms annually. OX.DH, a health tech start-up with links to […]
NHS England awards £37m contract for digital urgent and emergency care transformation
NHS England has awarded a contract to support the transformational activities of the digital urgent and emergency team, worth an estimated £37,415,000, to Kainos Software Limited. The initial focus will be on NHS pathways, directory of services and urgent and emergency care data delivery areas, with the contract also to […]
HTN Now panel discusses digital apps, wearables, self-care and personalised care
HTN’s most recent panel discussion explored the role of digital in supporting self-care and delivering personalised care, looking at how digital can improve patient pathways and experiences, and the data points which should be leveraged to enable health and care organisations to deliver tech enabled care now and in the […]
South East Coast Ambulance Service strategy to 2029 highlights plans for digitally-led service model
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has published its trust strategy for 2024 – 2029, highlighting plans to “build a stronger SECAmb ready to face the challenges of the future” with digital tools to play a key role in offering a new service model. The strategy sets […]
NHSE shares guidance on single point of access functions, including role of digital and data
NHS England has published guidance around the implementation of single point of access (SPoA) functions, designed to simplify access to services by supporting onward referrals and winter resilience; as part of the guidance, NHSE highlights requirements for digital and data as well as how digital tools can be used to […]
NHSE launches virtual wards operational framework; what good looks like, data, outcomes and metrics
A virtual wards operational framework has been published by NHS England, designed to help support consistency and the achievement of goals set out in the urgent and emergency care recovery plan and 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance around maintaining a virtual ward capacity of over 80 percent. The framework […]
Hammersmith Hospital study finds remote monitoring of heart attack patients less likely to be readmitted
A research study exploring the impact of remote monitoring on patients who had recently experienced a heart attack reportedly found that “telemedicine patients were 76 percent less likely to be readmitted to hospital within six months and 41 percent less likely to attend A&E, compared to those who followed normal […]
North East London NHS Foundation Trust deploys e-discharge module to support virtual ward delivery
North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) has deployed the e-discharge module of the Portasana patient communication platform, as part of efforts to support virtual wards, handle patient discharge and support patient flow. Through Portasana’s e-discharge capabilities, staff at the trust will be able to digitally discharge patients into several […]
HTN at Rewired 2024: what have we learned from virtual wards?
At Rewired 2024, we sat in on a session exploring what we have learned from virtual wards so far as well as potential next steps, featuring Dr Amanda Begley (executive director of digital transformation for the Health Innovation Network); Tara Donnelly (founder of Digital Care and previous chief digital officer […]
