NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has opened an opportunity to establish a framework agreement for medicine optimisation prescribing decision support systems through a two-year contract worth an estimated £100 million. The opportunity comes as a result of NHS SBS’s plans to put in place a framework for the use […]
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Deep dive: EPMA in focus
Following on from our deep dive last week in which we explored electronic patient records, today we’re turning our attention to electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA). Earlier this week, we published an interview with Gary Mooney, clinical solution executive at InterSystems. Gary shared his experiences implementing InterSystems’ EPMA solution with […]
Royal Cornwall Hospitals set to launch electronic patient record system
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has announced the development of its electronic patient record (EPR) programme, with Oracle Health, set to eventually replace “many of their current digital and paper-based systems” with a single platform for patient information. The trust is currently at the design, development and testing phase of […]
Tech to support sustainability plans in new strategy from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
The new Sustainability Strategy 2023 – 2028 from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) shares a vision for a “resilient health service which is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable” and sets out plans to utilise technology to support with property, transport, communications and more. In the area of energy efficiency […]
Wales to begin testing electronic prescription service in primary care
Live testing of a new electronic prescription service (EPS) is about to begin in Wales, which will see prescriptions sent electronically from a GP practice to a patient’s pharmacy of choice, negating the need for paper forms. The transition from paper-based processes to a digital service is being described as […]
Draft guidance from NICE recommends four digital weight management platforms
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has shared draft guidance indicating that four digital programmes can be used to help the NHS in delivering specialist weight management services, with platforms Liva, Oviva, Roczen or Second Nature enabling specialists to provide virtual care via an app or computer. […]
Poll: What does your organisation need most to improve patient flow?
For the latest poll in the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, we took to Twitter and LinkedIn to ask our audience: What does your organisation need most to improve patient flow? Participants ranged from various backgrounds and settings such as NHS organisations, researchers and healthcare innovators. A slight […]
Technology procurement and developing specifications: NHSE guidance on virtual wards
NHS England has released guidance on the requirements of digital technologies supporting virtual wards across integrated care systems, focusing on the approach to procurement along with developing virtual ward specifications. NHSE acknowledges that the digital platform chosen to support virtual wards will depend on local need and maturity. The previously-released […]
Accurx’s Dr Satya Raghuvanshi on what could revolutionising patient flow using technology look like?
Dr Satya Raghuvanshi, VP of Clinical, Accurx A recent poll by HTN asked readers which challenge in health and care they thought should be the biggest priority – 60% said “revolutionising patient flow”. Clearly it’s a hot topic, and for good reason. Patient flow, i.e. the speed and efficiency in […]
“We are on a journey of continuous improvement” – X-on Health on the digital front door of primary care access
In our recent HTN Now event focusing on digital primary care, we were joined by Paul Bensley (joint managing director) and Derrick Measham (research and development director) from X-on Health, for a discussion on cloud-based telephony. Who are X-on Health? Paul began by establishing X-on Health’s background, stating that the […]
