A new research report from CommonTime has discovered the majority of NHS acute trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools. The report highlighted that important steps to prevent staff sharing sensitive information via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other consumer applications were not being taken following responses from […]
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NHS hospitals turn to deep learning and advanced algorithms to fight heart disease
New technology using deep learning and advanced algorithms to evaluate blood flow to the heart is now being used in English hospitals to fight against coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of death in the UK. It is responsible for more than 66,000 […]
Opinion Piece: Combinatorial innovation and collaboration: the key to successfully embedding new technologies in the NHS?
John Craig, Chief Executive of Care City Test Bed, highlights the successes of ‘combinatorial innovation’ and why collaboration is king when it comes to embedding new technologies and services into whole systems and pathways. You cannot admit to many people that you are obsessed with public sector innovation before one […]
Worcestershire NHS Trust selects AI to tackle backlog of patient records
Nuance Communications has announced that Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has deployed Dragon Medical Network Edition to relieve clinicians’ growing administrative burden and support the mobility of its healthcare workforce out and about in the community. The deployment – following the Trust being granted Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) funding […]
NHS fax machines still gleaming: RCS finds over 8,000 owned by hospitals
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has revealed that NHS hospital trusts own over 8,000 fax machines. Richard Kerr, chair of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Commission on the Future of Surgery, has criticised the health service’s reliance on a technology that was in popular use about the last time […]
Specialist GP to help spread innovations to join up NHS health and social care
Dr Karen Kirkham, who runs a practice in Dorset and specialises in women’s health, will work with the wider GP community to spread tried and tested innovation and transformation techniques across the country. Dr Kirkham has been instrumental in setting up the trailblazing Dorset Integrated Care System where a new […]
NHS App Library reaches 70 apps in honour of the NHS birthday
Since the launch of the Apps Library, NHS Digital has worked with more than 350 developers to include new apps. This inspired the milestone of 70 apps in honour of the 70th birthday celebrations of the National Health Service. The library will continue to grow and cover many more health […]
NHS systems fall victim to over 55 days’ downtime
NHS trusts across England have experienced over 1,300 hours’ worth of downtime over the last three years, according to new figures revealed by enterprise mobility and IT specialist Intercity Technology. The company carried out a Freedom of Information request and, of the 143 trusts that were approached, 80 responded. The findings revealed […]
New NHS app will make it quicker and easier to access health services
The new NHS app will be available to all patients for free by December 2018 to provide safe and secure access to their GP record. Patients will be able to use it to make GP appointments, order repeat prescriptions, manage long-term conditions and access 111 online for urgent medical queries. It means patients will […]
Private healthcare data to be captured by NHS systems
An initiative has been launched to ensure private healthcare data is recorded in the same way as NHS data in England, with the aim of improving consistency across the system. The Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt) aims to integrate data on privately funded healthcare into NHS systems and standards for […]
