The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has shared draft guidance indicating that four digital programmes can be used to help the NHS in delivering specialist weight management services, with platforms Liva, Oviva, Roczen or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. […]
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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 […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals seeks to engage market for its Innovation Pop-Up across seven digital areas: virtual care, network infrastructure, patient flow and more
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking to engage the market across seven thematic areas – clinical communications, virtual care, operations, SMART buildings, inpatient central monitoring, patient flow and network infrastructure – with a view to suppliers of digital solutions in these areas exploring the prospect of membership to the trust’s […]
NHS England highlights virtual wards, primary care access and command centres in winter resilience plans
NHS England’s winter resilient system roles and responsibilities plan has highlighted integrated care boards to maintain 24/7 oversight through a system co-ordination centre, the role for digital in supporting primary care access, and a target for virtual wards to maintain 80 percent occupancy rates over the winter period. Following the ‘high impact interventions’ shared […]
Virtual wards, improved data use and standardisation take focus in first NHS Impact programme
The first of the NHS Impact programmes to be launched as part of an “opportunity for systems and their providers to engage in a customised improvement programme” sees NHS England share an online ‘maturity matrix’ to enable organisations to conduct self-assessment of services; a programme-specific website providing resources and guidance; […]
Warrington and Halton NHS opens patient engagement portal tender
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has opened an opportunity to procure a patient engagement portal. Through an opportunity notice, the trust highlights plans to contract a “digital person held record that can be shared” and “will take or exchange data from the patient portal with EPR through bi-directional […]
A look at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Seha virtual hospital – a vision for the future?
What’s happening in health tech in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Let’s take a look at the Seha Virtual Hospital (SVH), a programme aiming to enhance access, increase capacity, and support innovation. KSA’s Ministry of Health describes the hospital as “empowering the best health consultants and practitioners in micro and […]
