Digital health
DigitalHealth.London and Cedars-Sinai Accelerators have announce a new partnership supporting international adoption of some of the US and UK’s best health tech companies. The partnership will allow patients in both the UK and US to benefit quicker from health tech innovations. It will also utilise the deep healthcare knowledge and networks held by both organisations [...]
An NHS trust has digitally transformed how staff safely manage complex medicines processes for two high risk antibiotics used in the treatment of new-born babies with potentially life-threatening illnesses. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, based in the North East of England, has used InterSystems TrakCare electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system to [...]
DigitalHealth.London, which supports the adoption of digital solutions across the health and care system, is reflecting on the impact its programmes have had over the last five years. To celebrate its fifth birthday, DigitalHealth.London has published Driving digital: Insights and foresights from the health and care ecosystem following a five-week conversation with NHS and social care [...]
As part of the Greener NHS programme, NHS Digital has set out its sustainability pledges to help drive the organisation down to net zero. Following two weeks of sustained focus on environmental concerns at COP26, NHS Digital has pledged to reach carbon net zero to help reduce the environmental impact of digital services, supporting the [...]
Taha Kass-Hout, director of Machine Learning (ML) at Amazon Web Services, explains why the COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining moment for ML. Moments of crisis spark innovation and resourcefulness, as demonstrated by the way organisations have united to pioneer for the nation’s wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Liquor distilleries produced hand sanitiser, 3D printing [...]
Leeds council and health leaders join a national project to use data to improve health and social care in the UK. The Networked Data Lab is a collaborative of advanced analytical teams from across the UK. The teams are working together on shared challenges and promoting the use of analytics to improve health and social care. [...]
‘Telemedicine’ is less diagnostically accurate than in-person consultations and could increase health inequalities and barriers to accessing appropriate care, a study of rheumatology patients and clinicians has found. The study, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with experts at the Universities of Birmingham and East Anglia, found that there are inherent risks and [...]
UK cloud telephony specialist X-on has completed two deployments of its Surgery Connect cloud-telephony system, extending take-up to a further 120 general practices in London and most recently Greater Manchester. In Stockport, Greater Manchester, all the area’s 36 practices have now moved to Surgery Connect. This follows an earlier deployment in 80 GP practices within North Central London Clinical Commissioning [...]
Health services provider FCMS has incorporated CLEO CORE into its Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) in Blackpool FCMS is a social enterprise, not-for-profit health and wellbeing provider, delivering 24-hour integrated care across multiple health economies. The CLEO Systems patient management system, CLEO CORE, supports urgent and primary care providers to deliver healthcare services in a variety [...]
England's Covid-19 National Booking System will allow people to pre-book their booster appointment a month before they are eligible. Everyone aged over 50 and all those most at risk from Covid-19 should get a booster six months after their second dose. From today (November 8), they will be able to book their appointment after five [...]
