NHSX has formally launched its Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC), an assessment process to review digital health tools. The criteria, which can be completed in days, aims to help local and national NHS and social care teams purchase and adopt the right technologies that have been reviewed by the DTAC […]
Secondary Care
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare announces partnership with digital cancer platform
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, a provider of healthcare services, is now working in partnership with the digital cancer care platform, Careology. It’s hoped this new working relationship will help change how cancer care is delivered – by encouraging and enabling patients, clinicians and carers to better manage remote care. Part of […]
Medway NHS Trust announces EPR choice and go-live timescale
Medway NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Allscripts Sunrise as its EPR (electronic patient record), after announcing that it aims to go-live on the first part of the project later in 2021. The Trust is reportedly the third in Kent to choose Allscripts and plans to go-live with the first phase […]
Sussex Community FT implements new automated scheduling system
A new automated scheduling system has been implemented at Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT) following successful pilots in Leicestershire and Hertfordshire. The Trust has gone live with TPP’s AutoPlanner, to provide staff scheduling functionality, and automatically book visits in the community on a daily basis. The Trust is also progressing the […]
Induction app supports clinician onboarding at Nightingale London
NHS Nightingale London has used an app from Induction Healthcare to support the onboarding process of 418 clinicians. Using the Induction Switch app, a popular communication platform used by 185,000 healthcare professionals, the temporary hospital has adopted the tool to support communication, secure messaging, directory services and document sharing. London’s Nightingale hospital was reopened last month […]
Report: Healthcare providers and systems brace for a third recovery wave; 6,100 monthly cancer patients, and 2.5m elective patient gap
Feature by Draper & Dash, view the insight report here > As far as intensity goes, this has been one of the most extreme and challenging months in history for the healthcare sector. As a I write this, we are simultaneously experiencing one of the most transformative periods in healthcare, […]
PRSB launches supplier scheme to drive standards
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB), a non-profit organisation responsible for the development of standards for digital health and care records, has launched a new vendor scheme to support integrated care. The ‘Standards Partnership Scheme’ has been launched to visibly recognise and support vendors that are implementing endorsed record standards, in a bid […]
A week in health tech: a summary of HETT Reset
This week, the HTN team joined the health tech community for a very interesting virtual HETT Show. During the week we attended the panel discussions and covered some of the themes and key discussion points: NHS digitalisation and the future role of NHS Digital; an interview with Sarah Wilkinson Integration […]
NHS digitalisation and the future role of NHS Digital; an interview with Sarah Wilkinson
HTN today attended a session, as part of the HETT Show, hosted by Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer at HIMSS International who spoke with Sarah Wilkinson, CEO at NHS Digital. The session discussed the current state of NHS digitalisation and the future role of NHS Digital in supporting new and evolving […]
Lancashire Teaching extends agreement with Harris EPR
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT has extended its agreement to use the electronic patient record from Harris Healthcare for a further five years. In 2017, the Trust went live with the platform across its organisation, and last year implemented its electronic prescribing medication administration (EPMA) functionality. The company said the […]
