Nine care homes in North East London have connected to the London Care Record, to provide access to information on allergies, test results and care plans as well as GP data and hospital discharge summaries. The London Care Record brings together local sharing systems from each of London’s five Integrated Care Systems, […]
Secondary Care
Nottingham University Hospitals appoints new CDIO and launches maternity app
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are going live with an app for pregnancy notes this week. The trusts will use the Badger Notes app to replace paper-based maternity notes, in a joint project between the two trusts. As part of the transition to the new […]
Ambulance services electronic patient record framework opens
An invitation to tender has been launched to develop a national framework for the provision and support of an electronic patient record system for ambulance trusts. The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub, in partnership with the National Ambulance Procurement Board, is inviting suppliers to bid for the framework agreement, with […]
Eye health information and images shared across Gloucestershire ICS
A new system has been launched across Gloucestershire where community optometrists can access a patient’s eye health information and images through a single database. Called the OphthalSuite Community Ophthalmic Link, created by BlueWorks OIMS, the system supports optometrists to access secondary care eye examination results, with a patient’s consent. It means optometrists […]
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS partner with Israeli health tech company
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS FT has announced a partnership with Israeli digital health company, Taliaz. The trust is introducing the company’s artificial intelligence platform with an aim to improve mental health treatment by providing clinical decision support tools and patient management for psychiatrists and GPs. The tech is said to […]
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital launches digital follow-up pathways
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has introduced digital personalised follow-up pathways with an aim to meet national targets to move 5 percent of patients onto a Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) pathway by 2023. The trust has worked with health tech suppliers, Infinity Health and DrDoctor, to utilise the suppliers’ digital […]
County Durham and Darlington prepares for EPR go-live
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is to go-live with its new electronic patient record system this weekend. Ahead of going live the trust has shared a series of videos from the trust’s medical director and associate director, sharing what the system will mean for patients and introducing what […]
PRSB publishes report on information standards for pharmacy, optometry, dentistry, ambulance and community services
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a new report defining standards for sharing information with pharmacy, optometry, dentistry, ambulance and community services (PODAC). Entitled ‘Use of the core information standard in community settings: pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, ambulance and community services‘, the report intends to define information requirements for […]
Nine integrated care systems purchase procurement data tool
Nine integrated care systems (ICS) have awarded contracts to AdviseInc for its procurement and spend data analysis tool. The company said the solution provides complete visibility of spend data and non-pay spend across 100,000 suppliers and over 1.5 million products. It cites opportunities for NHS organisations to save between £250k and £5m a […]
Case Study: Mid and South Essex ICS elective recovery programme
Case Study by Insource. Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list across the integrated care system to speed up elective recovery and help drive down the backlogs. The project will give a single view for all clinicians and operational managers across the ICS of exactly who is […]
