Drones can successfully fly blood packs, study finds
Drones can be used as a safe mode of transport for delivering blood packs, according to a study run by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT).
Under the study, 10 units of packed blood cells were…
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North London Mental Health Partnership goes live with PHR
North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) has gone live with a personal health record (PHR) and patient engagement platform from Patients Know Best.
The partnership, which comprises Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust…
Hull hospital to trial video triage to assess stroke patients
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) has announced plans to trial a pre-hospital video triage scheme which will enable rapid assessment of stroke patients.
The six-month trial, which is due to launch on 2…
Two Yorkshire trusts select Nervecentre as preferred EPR supplier
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust have selected Nervecentre as their preferred electronic patient record (EPR) supplier.
Nervecentre was confirmed as the preferred bidder after scoring the…
3 Health Systems Invest In Supply Chain Startup – MedCity News
This week, three health systems invested in a New York City-based startup on a mission to transform hospital supply chain operations.
Clarium, founded in 2020, closed a $10.5 million financing round on Tuesday, bringing its…
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Milton Keynes University Hospital trials Dora AI assistant
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) is trialling a conversational AI assistant to streamline outpatient appointments in its ophthalmology department.
The digital assistant, called Dora, has been developed by Oxford University spin-out company Ufonia to reduce…
The case for change: digitising the pharmacy ordering process
Pharmacy services tend to dislike change, preferring to apply ‘band-aids’ to traditional systems. But the advantages of digitising are now too great to ignore, writes NHS trust ePMA technician Daniel Pugh
Many hospital pharmacies still…
Humber Teaching NHS FT deploys patient communication platform
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has signed a three-year contract with Accurx for a patient communication platform to replace paper-based processes with digital ways of operating.
The system went live on 1 June 2024 at…
As the rush toward AI in healthcare continues, explainability is crucial
Artificial intelligence is seeing a massive amount of interest in healthcare, with scores of hospitals and health systems already have deployed the technology – more often than not on the administrative side – to…
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Portsmouth Hospitals expands digital patient communications
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has expanded digital patient communications through a redesign of its patient engagement portal and solutions from Healthcare Communications.
Since September 2023, the digital patient communications programme team has revamped the…