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E-consent company founded by Welsh surgeon receives £350k funding

Concentric provides a paper-free consent process and still ensures patients facing surgery can still make shared decisions with their clinicians.
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ORCHA launches survey to improve digital health tech offerings

The survey, aimed at medical and clinical professionals, will bridge the question: what matters when offering technology to patients.
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Digital portal helps reduce patient do not attend rates in Lincolnshire

The portal, from Healthcare Communications, allows patients to receive appointment letters straight to their smartphone and can accept, cancel or
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‘Biggest obstacle’ in digitising healthcare is privacy, Wachter warns

Digitising healthcare was “essential” but it will be “incredibly hard” to take advantage of the digital revolution if data can’t
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St Helens Care goes live with Graphnet shared records system

Social care teams, hospital staff, GPs, mental health workers and other teams now have access to the records of the
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Cyber security news round-up

This month's round up from the world of cyber security features news that analysis has suggested the US healthcare cyber
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Matt Hancock faces backlash for collaborating on TaxPayers’ Alliance report

The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) report claims £18.5 billion could be saved by 2030 across NHS budgets if more automated services
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How can we make interoperability happen?

It's a question which has plagued the NHS for many a year: how can we make interoperability happen? For Peter
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Rotherham NHS FT receives outstanding rating for digital agenda

The trust has made “good progress” with its digital agenda and inspectors saw “evidence of innovative use of technology”, the
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NHS Digital enters five-year partnership with GS1 UK

The partnership between the organisation and GS1 UK, will start with patient wristbands and extend to location management.
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