This weekend East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust went live with its new electronic patient record (EPR), transforming how its staff will work and the care they deliver patients.eLancs has been designed to improve patient…
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Digital leadership in integrated care boards (ICBs) continues to be a careful balancing act, with efforts to maintain and improve systems proceeding on parallel tracks, NHS and other transformation leaders agreed in a session…
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Population health management (PHM) has the potential to eliminate some of the legwork in health visits and help clinicians forecast patients of needs, a panel of clinicians told a session of the NHS Confederation…
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The UK government will protect money for health technology from budget cuts, Secretary of State for Health Steve Barclay said on Thursday, speaking at a keynote session at the NHS Confederation Expo conference in…
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In the latest episode of Unplugged, host Jordan Sollof is joined by Ayesha Rahim and Alistair Cannon to delve deep into the world of CCIO mentoring.Rahim is a consultant psychiatrist, chief medical information officer…
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The Labour Party will streamline the process for innovators in the health service and overhaul the NHS App if it is elected to government in the next election, Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told…
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The National Clinical Homecare Association (NCHA) had a requirement to harmonise prescription processing for patients in clinical home care. Existing paper-based workflows often led to unnecessary delays, and there had been high-profile cases of…
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West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has collaborated with Panasonic Toughbook and Telent to upgrade 800 service vehicles to deliver cost savings and minimise the time ambulances are off the road.The critical communications upgrade will…
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has become the first UK trust to pioneer the newest surgical robot, the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system, from Medtronic. The adoption of Hugo into the largest robotic…
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The first two headline speakers have been announced for Digital Health’s new AI and Data event, which takes place at the end of October in London.Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer at NHS…
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