The UK government has launched its new five-year suicide prevention strategy, highlighting the value of digital resources, digital therapeutics and opportunities for machine learning and artificial intelligence in prevention. The new strategy notes that “while overall the current suicide rate is not significantly higher than in 2012, the rate is […]
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HTN Awards 2023: Digitising Patient Services
Here we take a look at all of the entries for the Health Tech Awards 2023 category of ‘Digitising Patient Services’. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Overview: An electronic consent portal was developed for school-based immunisations for COVID 19, replacing paper forms, and managing consent and other data to help manage the […]
HTN Awards 2023: Best Health Tech Solution of the Year
Here we take a look at the Health Tech Awards 2023 category of ‘Best Health Tech Solution of the Year’. ImproveWell Overview: Turning the tide on staff morale, improving culture and driving continuous, everyday improvement. Why? Health and care systems globally are under increasing pressure to deliver better care at […]
News in Brief: online support for patients from deaf community awaiting hospital care, digital referral system for EEAST, digital patient hub in Hertfordshire, and more
It’s time for another news in brief round-up – let’s take a look at some of the stories that caught our eye recently. Greater Manchester launches While You Wait to support deaf community Greater Manchester ICS has recently launched ‘While You Wait‘, a British Sign Language (BSL) page offering accessible […]
Feature: InterSystems on how electronic patient records can increase healthcare innovation and resilience in difficult times
Content by Mike Fuller, Regional Director of Marketing, InterSystems Spurred on by the need to adapt to the pandemic, healthcare organisations have made great progress in recognising the need to be bold and innovative to overcome a variety of business, operational, and technological hurdles. Now, however, as resources post-pandemic are […]
News in brief: neonatal EPR launch in Calderdale, new funding for tech-enabled care qualification in Scotland, patient support websites in London, and more
It’s time for another news in brief round-up – let’s take a look at some of the stories that caught our eye recently. New EPR launches for neonatal patients at Calderdale and Huddersfield The neonatal unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital has recently gone live with electronic patient record, BadgerNet, which […]
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. […]
Microsoft collaborates with Epic to deliver “highly scalable public cloud” Azure Large Instances
Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Epic through the delivery of a Microsoft Azure Large Instances, a “highly scalable public cloud” that is “designed to achieve the scale needed to run a large Epic electronic health record database – up to 50 million database accesses per […]
King’s College London to explore environmental sustainability of AI-enabled digital health
A new research project led by King’s College London seeks to explore the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence enabled health, with a central focus on how “ethical principles can be integrated to improve the sustainability” of digital health systems. The project, ‘Exploring digital health promises and practices through a sustainability […]
Deep dive: digital transformation and change in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Sussex
Let’s take a look at the role that digital transformation and change take in three recently released strategies from integrated care systems. We’ll explore key areas of focus in the integrated care strategy from Derby and Derbyshire ICS along with Northamptonshire ICS’s five-year forward plan, both released last month, along […]
