In our latest newsletter we cover the news, interviews and features we brought you in the month.

In April we reported on an announcement from NHSX to mandate health tech standards. NHSX also announced it wants to assemble a world-class team of technical experts to help solve some of the biggest technology challenges in health and care.

Matt Hancock launched the TPA report heavily focusing on the role of technology in healthcare.

Thousands of patients now have online access to a wide range of images from x-rays to CT and MRI scans thanks to an extension of a national network called the Image Exchange Portal.

HTN launched the HTN Health Tech Trends Survey 2019 sponsored by InterSystems. The Health Tech Trends Survey provides you with the opportunity to share your views and opinions on health technology.

NHSX, which will be operational from July, has announced its CEO, Matthew Gould, who will join in the summer. He is currently the Government’s Director General for digital and media policy, previously the Government’s Director for cyber security, and a former ambassador to Israel.

Organisations that provide and commission adult social care services are invited to bid for a share of £4.8m to enable them to roll out their local digital projects on a wider scale.

14 start-ups have made the shortlist to participate in Propel@YH first digital health accelerator programme.

Innovative digital technology projects have received a £9m funding boost through the government’s Digital Health Technology Catalyst.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced new technology which allows patients to receive appointment letters directly to their mobile phone. The Trust previously would send 744,000 letter by post, with an estimated cost of £75,000.

Alcidion the parent company to Patientrack has partnered with Better by Marand to offer its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to NHS Trusts.

A pilot to provide medics with Summary Care Record access has launched by using the new NHS Identity Service to authenticate to the system.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has streamlined its employee relations (ER) and case management processes by implementing Selenity’s ER Tracker. The solution enables the Trust to improve its reporting, compliance and information gathering for Freedom of Information requests and supports greater communication amongst the HR department.

NHS Digital has agreed a deal with Splunk a data monitoring and analytics platform. The deal is said to support trusts make better use of their machine generated information and provide a more cost-effective approach in utilising the data analytics and processing software to drive operational insight from machine data.

University Hospitals of Leicester has reduced its did not attend rates by 433 from January to mid-March thanks to introducing a new two-way text messaging service.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is utilising technology from Nervecentre to capture, store and share images of patients with pressure ulcers.

The National Events Management Service is now live allowing for patient centric event messages to be published from one system and distributed to a number of other subscriber systems.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has seen a reduction in did not attend rates to 4.1 per cent following a new patient communications project.

Global standards organisation, GS1 UK and NHS Digital have announced a five-year partnership to enable NHS trusts to use GS1 standards starting with the patient wristband and extending to location management using the Global Location Number registry.

Salford Royal has extended the use of PillTime following a successful pilot. The system ensures patients receive the right medication on time, every time.

In our latest interview we spoke with Dr Tanya Pankhurst, Deputy Director of Digital Healthcare from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has appointed  OLM to optimise its 0 – 19 Healthy Child Programme service with new cloud-native technology, ECLIPSE; a case management system to improve and simplify the case recording process.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust has announced Lincolnshire residents will gain access to video consultations with healthcare professionals through technology platform Q doctor.

Poole Hospital has gone live with a new virtual fracture clinic using technology from Bluespier.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Patchwork to trial a new clinical staffing solution for their medical workforce.

IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions have announced a partnership to offer mobile provider-to-provider and provider-to-patient communications to NHS organisations, GP practices and patients.

A partnership between Push Doctor and Urban Health and I3 primary care networks, covering 13 practices and 88,000 patients now enables patients to make a digital appointment with an online GP.

TPP has achieved full roll-out approval for Access Record: HTML capability as part of NHS Digital’s GP Connect programme.

Bournemouth University, the local NHS and industry have launched a new partnership with the aim of using innovation to drive forward improvements in healthcare outcomes for people across Dorset.

Apple this month has launched its ECG app on the Apple Watch Series providing the functionality to take an electrocardiogram and capture heart rhythms. Apple said the ECG app and irregular heart rhythm notification feature will help identify signs of AFib, the most common form of irregular rhythm.

The start up Siilo Messenger has reached a milestone of 140,000 unique users, doubling its user base in less than 12 months.

Biogen has launched a new app, CleoTM as an everyday digital companion to provide information and support for people living with multiple sclerosis, as well as their carers, friends and family.

Ping An Healthcare and Technology has launched a one-minute clinic at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to provide consultations and health management services. The platform uses AI technology and connects with more than 1,000 medical professionals and almost 5,000 externally contracted doctors.

In our Interview Series we spoke with Stephen Hannan, Clinical Services Director at Optical Express.

In our latest newsletter we cover the news and views we brought you this month.

HTN asked industry experts for their views on NHSX, read our feature here. 

Interoperability was a focus in our latest feature, where we asked industry leaders for their views and examples of best practice.

HTN launched HTN Digital Week a week of online events and information sharing, taking place 10th – 14th June 2019 for the healthcare community.  Utilising digital channels HTN Digital Week will provide everyone with an opportunity to share and collaborate on digital health. Register for free here.

A new standard to improve information sharing between community pharmacies and GP practices is now complete, the Professional Record Standards Body has announced.

We featured an opinion article on the clinical outcomes and mortality challenge from Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash.

A series of projects have received a share of £23m, awarded under the Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) programme jointly run by Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council. The projects include software which enables radiologists to diagnose breast cancer more effectively and gene therapy to combat kidney disease.

EMIS Group announced two senior appointments, Suzy Foster as Chief Executive Office and Bob Brown as Chief Solutions Officer. The appointments follow the company recently announcing EMIS-X, it’s next generation platform.

Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University have developed two virtual reality computer games aimed at helping injured children through rehabilitation at Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

13 innovations have joined the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme supporting priority areas for England’s NHS: Mental Health, Primary Care and early diagnosis and prevention of cancer.

NICE has published an updated version of its evidence standards framework for digital health technologies that sets out the evidence requirements for different types of tech.

The anaesthetics department at Salford Royal is going digital, following the recent installation of GE Healthcare’s Centricity High Acuity Anaesthesia (CHA-A) Information Management Solution –  known by clinicians as ‘CHAAS’.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has benefited from technology from Oxehealth which has led to a significant amount of staff time saved and a reduction in falls from its patients, a clinical study has shown.

Ieso Digital has announced it will integrate Artificial Intelligence into its therapist platform for the first time. It will enable therapists in the UK and US to receive data-led insights about each patient during the assessment stage of treatment.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is utilising a new clinical audit platform from Meantime IT to reduce the unwarranted variation in care.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is offering outpatient appointments via video, using the Virtual Clinic platform by Involve Visual Collaboration.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with eConsent to digitise the consent process. The solution from Wellbeing Software ensures accurate patient information is consistently captured and the necessary permissions required for any surgical procedure.

CAP-AI, a pioneering research programme in Artificial Intelligence, is underway at Barts Life Sciences involving project teams from Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London.

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust a Global Digital Exemplar Trust,  e-sepsis programme has recently been included as part of NHS England’s long term plan.

The Dorset Care Record has added radiology and pathology results and referral information. The latest records to come on stream cover radiology results from Dorset County Hospital (DCHFT), Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals (RBCH) and Poole Hospital (PHFT), as well as pathology reports and referrals from Dorset County Hospital.

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is benefiting from 3D printing techniques to help rebuild the faces of cancer patients, those hurt in accidents and people born with complex facial deformities.

TPP has achieved full roll-out approval for Access Record: HTML capability as part of NHS Digital’s GP Connect programme.

NHS Digital has announced the roll out of schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drugs via the Electronic Prescription Service following a successful pilot process.

Patients across the Humber are benefitting from more joined-up healthcare thanks to the rollout of a new initiative to share information between EMIS Health and TPP

Biogen has launched a new app, CleoTM as an everyday digital companion to provide information and support for people living with multiple sclerosis, as well as their carers, friends and family.

Doctolib, a Franco-German company, founded in 2013 has raised €150 million of funding from investors, valuing the company at over €1 billion.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  has launched a new app to help patients prepare for medical visits.

UK care management start up Karantis360 has turned to IBM to help build a new solution that uses sensors and Watson artificial intelligence running in the IBM Cloud.

Salford Royal a Global Digital Exemplar has launched its own app library.

In our latest Newsletter we highlight some of the key news we brought you in the month:

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new digital postnatal discharge system, powered by Lumeon technology.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed Imprivata across its organisation following a successful pilot project. The pilot in the renal unit at the Trust enabled the organisation to prove Imprivata’s single sign-on functionality.

Royal Marsden and University College London will use Hyland Healthcare’s enterprise imaging solution to tackle the fragmentation of patient data. The trusts are joining together patient health data and systems to ensure all clinicians have a comprehensive view of the information they need.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is offering video consultations for cardiology patients providing advice to patients following a successful pilot. The service is supported by Q doctor who is delivering the platform for the new video consultation service.

In a featured article we cover some digital transformation examples supporting the NHS Long Term Plan.

A new framework agreement from NHS Shared Business Services aims to make the use of teleradiology in NHS organisations more effective and efficient. The Teleradiology Reporting Services framework agreement supports the early diagnosis of patients through the swift turnaround of medical imaging scans.

3 Trusts and 4 CCGs part of Lincolnshire STP are now benefiting from new real-time dashboards for capacity and demand planning. The system is now live following signing a  deal with Cambio Healthcare Systems just 3 months ago.

We featured: Using AI and ML to predict staffing and patient demand in A&E department by Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is implementing an electronic fax solution to tackle its last remaining machines. The Trust in September set a goal to remove the majority of its 350 fax machines and in December Matt Hancock banned the NHS from buying fax machines.

Mendelian, a UK healthtech startup, has received over £500k, a grant from Innovate UK to build solutions that will assist GPs in identifying NHS patients who potentially have rare or hard to diagnose conditions and diseases.

Babylon Health the virtual GP service has been given to go-ahead to expand to its second major city following leaders dropping their objections.

Herts Valley CCG and Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust have carried out a successful pilot of patient information sharing between the SystmOne and EMIS Web systems, allowing users to view the complete community and GP records across the area.

A partnership between the healthtech company Living With, the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, and the University of Bath has been awarded a major grant to develop a Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare Profiler.

Lumeon, the company behind the care pathway management platform has raised funding to expand its commercial operations, with advice from BKL. The funding from Life Sciences Partners, is one the largest healthcare investment firms in Europe, to grow its US team and customer base.

A new code of conduct for artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies has been launched to ensure systems are safe for the NHS. 

SBRI Healthcare has awarded £1.25 million to help fund the development of thirteen separate innovations relating to musculoskeletal disorder and dentistry, oral health and oral cancers.

The government has announced a newly formed organisation NHSX to oversee digital, data and technology. The new unit will effectively take a position above NHS Digital, who is believed will continue with its current remit.

Four NHS boards in the North of Scotland have now gone live with a new health and care portal from Orion. NHS Grampian, NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, and NHS Shetland staff now have a single view of patient information held in different IT systems across the boards.

Matt Hancock during a speech at an NHS England conference has outlined an ambition for healthcare staff to email patients directly with information on appointments to reduce delays, boost cyber security and cut wastage.

HTN is delighted to announce the finalised categories for the Health Tech Awards 2019. Early in the month we asked the HTN community for their ideas and suggestions for new categories for the Awards.

A research team led by investigators from the National Institutes of Health and Global Good has developed a computer algorithm that can analyze digital images of a woman’s cervix and accurately identify precancerous changes that require medical attention.

NHS Digital has launched a pilot to support partner services connect and use NHS login. The pilot process is taking place with 5 selected organisations and they will help NHS Digital ensure that NHS login can support future demand.

A new framework contract to supply IT software to GPs across NHSScotland was awarded on 1 February 2019 to EMIS Health (Egton Medical Information Systems Limited), Microtest Ltd and Vision (InPractice Systems Ltd).

NHS Digital has announced £1m in funding to support local authorities developing digital social care projects. The Social Care Digital Innovation Programme (SCDIP) fund will support innovative uses of digital technology in the design and delivery of adult social care.

Digital blueprints have been made available to hospitals as part of the Global Digital Exemplar programme.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is now offering patients access to manage their hospital record online.

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has a gone live with a clinical decision support pathway in the Acute Coronary Care Unit.

January has been dominated by the published NHS Long Term Plan. Health and care leaders came together to develop a Long Term Plan to make the NHS fit for the future, and to get the most value for patients out of every pound of  taxpayers’ investment. Here we review the Plan and the tech milestones it set.  

We also asked the Tech Industry for their view and reaction to the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan. In a two part series we covered the reaction from the industry. The theme was clear, interopabeility is key, and it always has been. Technology to support our NHS is not possible solely from a few suppliers, we need innovation and funding to truly deliver a technology enabled health system. You can read the Industry reaction here:

• NHS Long Term Plan: Industry Reaction Part One
• NHS Long Term Plan: Industry Reaction Part Two

In the month our guest writer Dr Hussain Gandhi covered: What does technology enhanced primary care look like?

Research funded by the NIHR has suggested that automated phone calls could be effective at helping patients to take their medicines as prescribed.

The North West London Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups has signed an agreement with Inhealthcare, a UK leader in digital health and remote patient monitoring.

A new programme has been launched across the Yorkshire and Humber, the region’s first digital health accelerator programme. Propel@YH has been set up by Yorkshire & Humber AHSN (Academic Health Science Network) to support innovative organisations developing digital health solutions.

Dr. Tejas Patel, Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist of the Apex Heart Institute at Ahmedabad has performed heart surgery from a distance of 20 miles away.

Orthopaedic Research UK  have launched The Ronald Furlong Fund, in collaboration with healthtech experts HS., as a catalyst for innovation in musculoskeletal care. According to NHS England, 1 in 4 UK adults live with a musculoskeletal condition.

Earlier in January Boots UK announced the acquisition of Wiggly-Amps Limited, a health technology company providing solutions that enable patients and their GPs to better manage their prescription needs. Here we interviewed the MD of Engage Health Systems (formerly Wiggly Amps).

In our HTN 100 series we covered news from South West Yorkshire, Gogodoc, Sectra and Populo Consulting.

Scientists have developed a new test that scans the shapes of tumour cells to pick out women with especially aggressive ovarian cancer, so treatment can be tailored to their needs.

Draper & Dash has raised £3m in venture funding from Guinness’ EIS Funds.

Cancer Research UK has funded a trial to test whether technology can identify cancers from a patients breath.

A team at Nottingham Trent University have pioneered the possibility that robots will perform spinal surgery. The system allows two robotic arms to semi-autonomously drill holes in individual vertebrae and is said to do so with greater accuracy than humanly possible.

Blackpool Teaching Hospital has developed an in-house digital system replacing traditional ‘white-boards’ on 38 adult wards.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with eObservations using Tap & Go technology from Imprivata. The company said the project was turned around in just 8 weeks and the Trust went live.

Kent and Medway STP has used population health management technology from Carnall Farrar to drive savings across the region.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented Orion Health Medicines to provide up-to-date information about the medications their patients are taking.

Highland Marketing has announced it has welcomed a chair and two new members to its advisory board.

Following the launch of myhealth@QEHB in 2012 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has now seen 20,000 patients register for the platform.

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced the national roll-out of eRedbook to digitise paper child health records.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Carestream’s medical imaging solutions to support co-ordinated, collaborative care across the Trust.

NHS Education for Scotland has launched the ‘Introduction to Technology Enabled Care’ (TEC) learning resource to address the recommendation for a national approach to learning and development from the research report – ‘Supporting Scotland’s Workforce’.

In December we released a feature looking into tech trends and predictions for 2019 and we continued our HTN 100 series:

• HTN 100: Shaping Cloud, Egton Online Triage and Care to Translate
• HTN 100: NICE, NELFT, Imprivata and Olympus
• HTN 100: Insource, digital dictation, Dedalus and Servelec

Highland Marketing looked ahead to 2019 in their latest blog. The turmoil in UK politics makes it hard to look too far ahead, but it is long-term trends that will shape the NHS and health tech through 2019, and well thought communications that will ensure success for vendors, say Lyn Whitfield and Mark Venables

Matt Hancock announced through the GP IT Futures framework the need to create an open, competitive market to encourage the best technology used in primary care and to shake-up the sector.

Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS FT has installed a state-of-the-art virtual reality computer gaming suite at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital to help patents with visual vertigo.

Mental health company Oh My Mood are developing their blended care pathways programme for the UK market, now with support from the Health Innovation Exchange project.

At HTN the agenda for HTN Digital Week developed and we confirmed 5 webinars have joined the programme of digital activity.

Ascom won a contract with Wren Hall Nursing Home in Nottingham – rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission.

A new document naming standard developed by the PRSB in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians Health Informatics Unit was launched aiming to ensure that records are properly named and indexed, so they can be retrieved in order to provide ongoing care.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust announced it is launching a new digital system that will give patients more opportunity to manage their own hospital care.

Northern Ireland announced the implementation of the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record and Dictate IT a provider of digital dictation became part of the Clanwilliam Group, the 18th company joining the group.

We spoke with Barney Gilbert, CEO of Forward App on the NHS banning fax machines as Matt Hancock has banned the NHS from buying fax machines and has ordered a complete phase-out by April 2020. NHS trusts will instead be required to invest in new technology to replace outdated systems.

We spoke with the CTO of EMIS in our HTN Exclusive: a closer look into EMIS-X.EMIS had unveiled EMIS-X their ‘next generation of connected healthcare technology’ platform.

Enovacom the provider of innovative healthcare software, enabling the exchange and sharing of patient data published a white paper focusing on patients and their data: the foundations for healthcare transformations.

An innovative workforce model pioneered by three trusts in the South West London Collaborative has created a regional bank app of nurses.

NHS Digital has launched a pilot that could see more than 95% of GP prescriptions processed electronically. Eight GP practices across England are piloting Phase 4 of the EPS, followed by further practices in 2019.

People suffering from long-term heart and lung disease in Hull are invited to join a revolutionary NHS scheme to help improve their quality of life.

A single child health information system spanning the whole of South West England from South Gloucester to the Isles of Scilly, has successfully gone live based on System C’s CarePlus child health software.

A new survey from Canon Medical Systems UK has highlighted innovation and AI as what enthuses radiographers and radiologists the most, followed by imaging improving patient outcomes (27%) and the use of diagnostic imaging replacing invasive clinical procedures (21%).

CHKS has been awarded a new contract for the provision of an all Wales national and Health Board clinical benchmarking and analytics system.

Changing Health has secured £3 million in new funding led by Shift Invest and existing backers. The company combines evidenced psychological tools with technology to enable people to improve their lifestyle habits.

NHS Digital has announced the NHS e-Referral Service has hit 100 million bookings and the NHS Spine has reached one billion transactions. Currently the e-referral service is booking around 400,000 referrals every week.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recently implemented SMART® on FHIR® APIs within their Cerner EHR. Open standards have been developed to simplify integration within health and social care, making it easier to write complementary applications to enhance the functionality of the electronic health record.

A new report from NHS Digital shows the majority of maternity providers are making a good start at using digital technology, according to the Maternity Digital Maturity Assessment report.

A new robot used to dispense drugs at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will save staff four minutes per prescription, totalling two weeks of staff time per month.

The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has announced that it has completed the phase one integration of its CareCentric shared care record to the new NHS Digital National Record Locator Service.

MJOG has partnered with eConsult and Sunderland’s health funding authority as part of its new Smart Partners programme, which helps encourage the widespread take up of innovative digital healthcare services

On average, the lives of 2 Stroke patients have been saved every month since the Salford Royal Acute Stroke Unit team started using an innovative ABC care bundle and app.

Orca Health has launched Waiting Room, a digital content platform designed to streamline and improve the patient experience from diagnosis to treatment to post-surgical care.

The past month was our busiest month yet where we held our annual Health Tech Awards 2018 and covered many great news stories.

Our HTN 100 news briefs continued to cover lots of news:

EMIS Group revealed EMIS-X the company terms a next generation of connected healthcare technology platform.

NHS Digital launched the National Record Locator Service to enable triage personnel such as mental health nurses and paramedics, who are called to a patient in distress, to find out whether a patient they are treating has a mental health crisis plan.

Draper & Dash launched a multi sector Global 2018 Data Analytics Challenge giving data scientists, analysts, developers and BI teams a chance to win up to $7,000 for showcasing their work.

The Clanwilliam Group welcomed Obsidian Healthcare, its 17th business to join the fast-growing group. The Obsidian Healthcare Group educates tens of thousands of healthcare professionals across the globe each year on new innovations, drugs and clinical best practice.

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent has received £1.2m of new NHS funding to utilise innovative digital technologies and treatments that could lead to thousands of fewer hospital admissions nationally.

Highland Marketing released its latest blog: Budget analysis “ trick or treat?

A physics lecturer has developed software that can help identify students with potential stress, wellbeing or mental health related problems at University.

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time.

The NHS Leadership Academy has commissioned the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to undertake research to further the understanding of systems leadership in integrated care systems.

The Care Information Exchange across North West London now hosts the health records of up to 2.3 million people.

NHS Digital has announced 9 councils have been awarded funding for digital innovation following a call for applications earlier in the year.

New guidance for the NHS will help staff use instant messaging safely to co-ordinate patients’ care during emergencies.

NHS Digital has awarded £784,000 to the members of the Care Provider Alliance to deliver a new sector-led service which will offer digital support for social care providers.

Athenahealth entered into an agreement to be acquired by Veritas Capital for $135 per share in cash.

Lancor Scientific a London-based startup will open a new cancer research laboratory that aims to push for 90% accuracy for cancer screening by utilising AI.

An NHS project using social media to improve health by boosting digital inclusion has led to a 13 per cent increase in first time attendances for breast screening in Stoke-on-Trent over four years.

Enovacom the provider of innovative healthcare software, enabling the exchange and sharing of patient data has published a white paper on the FHIR interoperability standards.

Leeds researchers have been awarded a £10.1m investment from UK Research and Innovation to expand a digital pathology and artificial intelligence programme across the North of England.

The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has announced that it has completed the phase one integration of its CareCentric shared care record to the new NHS Digital National Record Locator Service.

13 trusts will be the first to receive a share of £78 million to support electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to improve patient safety.

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Ingenica Solutions as its new inventory management solution provider.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Wellbeing Software to remove its paper based processes across its services.

Blood test results from patients at Royal Papworth Hospital can now be sent electronically from the laboratory at Cambridge University Hospitals back to Royal Papworth, thanks to a new link between the different electronic patient record systems used at the two Trusts.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has successfully switched on its Allscripts PAS in a three-day operation at the start of October. The switch to the new system followed the migration of 42 million records from one system to the other.

Professor Simon Walsh at King’s College Hospital has developed an algorithm which can accurately diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that could dramatically improve the diagnosis rate of a lung condition which kills up to 6,000 people in the UK each year

The PRSB has published the first part of a new standard outlining the information that needs to be shared between community pharmacies and GP practices.

Information from 400 GP practices and 20 million consultations has been analysed and made available in the form of a new digital dashboard.

EMIS Group has announced the acquisition of Dovetail Digital Limited for £2.5m, a early stage UK technology business specialising in blockchain software for the healthcare market.

Counties Manukau Health in New Zealand is trialling a digital information system to help patients receive the right care for them.

Vapour Cloud has launched TeleDOC to enable GPs and other medical professionals to hold secure, encrypted, recordable, geo-tagged video calls with their patients, wherever they are located, on any device.

The NICE guidance app will no longer be available for download with plans to phase it out by January 2019 and focus on its website. The NICE Guidance app was developed in 2012 to support the mobile working needs of healthcare professionals.

We hope you all can join us on 7th November at 7pm live for the HTN Awards 2018. 

In our latest Newsletter here we cover the news we brought you in October:

We released a feature sponsored by Graphnet on sharing records. In the feature we heard from industry experts on how they are progressing with sharing records across their local health economy or STP and what they have learned, achieved and what advice they have to share.

Recent research from Egton has highlighted the current state of mobile working and technology following a survey conducted with 1,003 UK GPs in August 2018.

Northwick Park Hospital is the first in the country to pilot a new app in its emergency department or staff to hail a porter on their mobile phone.

SBRI Healthcare has awarded a total of £3.8m in funding to four innovative technology companies that are in the process of developing cutting edge cancer diagnostic tools.

Thousands of people with Parkinson’s will be able to better manage their symptoms thanks to a apps and devices library launched by Parkinson’s UK and Our Mobile Health.

The online portal, DrDoctor, is set to save the NHS tens of millions of pounds by reducing the number of missed appointments as well as making it easier and more convenient for patients to make and manage bookings.Thousands of people with Parkinson’s will be able to better manage their symptoms thanks to a apps and devices library

One of Britain’s largest Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) has awarded a contract to Doctorlink, an intelligent digital health platform, following a competitive tender process involving 12 different suppliers.

Miiskin skin checking app has become the first app to receive independent dermatological accreditation from the Skin Health Alliance.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected the Cognito cyberattack detection and threat hunting platform from Vectra to expose hidden attackers inside its network.

Phillips-Medisize has joined forces with InterSystems to develop a Connected Health Platform. The integration of InterSystems HealthShare offers an information-sharing and analytics platform foundation designed for connected drug delivery devices, bio sensors and regulated Mobile Medical Applications.

WiFi SPARK has launched a patient entertainment and engagement platform SPARK® Media, after a successful trial period where the new technology was installed at The Royal Bolton NHS Trust.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is collaborating with GE Healthcare to build a command centre like an air traffic control at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust has reported a reduction in A&E admissions and bed days among a group of high-dependency patients following the introduction of a new remote-monitoring service from InHealthcare for people living with heart and lung disease.

Five GPs who have come up with problem-solving ideas to help improve patients experience of primary care have been selected to join the Royal College of General Practitioners new Innovators Mentorship Programme (IMP).

CCube Solutions has launched a health record archiving service for GP practices to scan Lloyd George records currently stored within the practice and make available electronically, ensuring quality and cost efficiency at all times.

Seven new NHS Test Beds are being launched to tackle some of the biggest opportunities and challenges in health and care by testing combinations of innovations in real world clinical settings.

NHS England has invested in 4 technologies through NHS England’s Innovation and Technology Payment programme.

Clinicians and IT experts at Southampton’s teaching hospitals have shared some of their pioneering digital initiatives with NHS leaders.

The EyeControl a communication device for individuals with Locked-In Syndrome is now available on NHS Supply Chain Framework.

UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £9 million to develop more effective and efficient treatments through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

Genomics England has chosen Congenica as its Clinical Decision Support Service partner to help deliver the new NHS Genomic Medicine Service, which rolls out this month.

Outdated and obstructive NHS IT systems will become a thing of the past, Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has said as he launches his technology vision in The Future of Healthcare.

Patients in London are benefiting from quicker, more accurate surgical procedures following the introduction of a pioneering and progressive 3D camera system which improves the hand-eye coordination of surgeons.

A new unit set to transform the use of technology including artificial intelligence in healthcare and improve patient outcomes is being opened at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Doctors can now keep tabs on their workload with Dr Diary, a bespoke app created and launched today by the BMA. Dr Diary allows consultants, staff, associate specialist and specialty doctors and medical academics to input easily their day-to-day activities and compile reports to document workload over time.

The NHS App provides a simple and secure way to access a range of healthcare services on a smartphone or tablet. Developed by NHS Digital and NHS England, it is now being tested by patients at 30 GP practices across England.

National mental health statistics that shed new light on care and treatment for patients are now available at the click of a mouse thanks to the latest interactive data hub created by NHS Digital.

Scientists are using the power of mobile phone technology to provide an accurate, real-time test for tuberculosis an infectious lung disease responsible for the death of over a million people every year.

Vodafone has announced that it is to provide South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) with mobile devices and a bespoke app to improve efficiency and response times for its 1,200 Community First Responders.

Medicalchain has announced that for the very first-time cryptocurrency is being used to access GP video consultations through its blockchain-based telemedicine application, MyClinic.com.

Forward Health, the app working to reinvent healthcare communication, has announced a $3.9m seed funding-round led by Stride.VC, with additional backing from Albion Capital.

In June we featured an opinion piece focusing on the trend for surgeries to become part of wider networks or federations of practices and how this has created a great opportunity for them to use technology to work more effectively with their patients and peers.

Also in primary care Microtest announced they had won over 100 new GP practices in Wales.

Half of acute trusts switched over to the NHS e-Referral Service, meaning more than 50 per cent of acute hospital trusts in England have switched off paper referrals and are now processing GP referrals for outpatient appointments digitally.

Torbay Hospital Rheumatology Department have brought patients and physicians together with a new app; Rheumatology Connect. Dr Kirsten Mackay, a rheumatology consultant at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, commissioned an app from partnership organisation Health & Care Videos.

South Tyneside Council has been awarded £20,000 to investigate how technology can be used to improve communication with people with learning disabilities and/or autism.

Twelve councils have been chosen by NHS Digital and the Local Government Association to explore how technology could help shape the future of social care.

Health Call has launched a new digital health service for gestational diabetes in the North East of England. The collaboration of NHS trusts has designed the programme to observe and check on the progress of expectant mothers with the condition.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is the latest to implement the platform Edge4Health as their new and intuitive online eMarketplace.

In March we announced a new podcast series has been launched to share innovations in primary care.

We covered an opinion piece from Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper and Dash: Are you provisioning for the Cloud? We announced 9 new categories in the HTN Awards 2018 including user-led innovation, information and data security and software ease of use.

NHS England announced £10million has been invested in practices to support eReferral roll-out. 

We featured an interview on GDPR from Highland Marketing and announced Virgin Care sites had picked Lexacom digital dictation.

NHS Informatics Merseyside is innovating its services with Sunrise Software and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals has deployed MAXIMS.

We covered ANS Group’s announcement of Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust using their services. 

NHS Digital called for more data to be added to breast implant registry and over 500 researchers granted access to the Genomics England Research Environment.

One of our most-read stories of the month, NHS staff punished as 500,000 rely on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other apps.

HTN announced new regional portal across North of Scotland and surgeons have trialed new technology in fight against liver cancer. 

A new report highlighted nearly 60% of people are worried about their data being used by mobile apps. 

We featured a piece where patient lives have been transformed through an AI tele-pharmacy app and an app has supported Mums-to-be who can go with the Flo to keep on top of their health 

PRSB announced a new standard to support people with long-term patients.

HTN covered a piece where Junior doctors have launched an app to improve communication.

Out story for Mother’s Day we covered the innovation from Amazon Alexa to support new mums to breastfeed.

Software is benefiting North West London residents saving time with the click of a button and NHS England announced its digital roadmap: empower the person.

Finally, we covered a story where Uber is being utilised in USA to include integration with many hospital systems. 

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