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1 April 2020

‘World’s first’ multi-user conversational robots to support elderly healthcare

A four-year project funded by Horizon2020 will develop socially assistive robots able to perform “open social conversation” in a healthcare
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Exterior of NHS Nightingale Hospital at the London ExCel centre
31 March 2020

Barts extends Cerner EPR to NHS Nightingale hospital

NHS Nightingale, the temporary London mega-hospital set up to help the NHS cope with coronavirus patients will use Barts Health
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Online medical record electronic patient record EPR
31 March 2020

Covid-19: NHS datasets ‘not sophisticated enough’ to flag high risk patients

Patients who have been contacted by NHS England can be identified through an “at high risk” indicator code applied to
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A nurse tending to a bed at a hospital
31 March 2020

Covid-19: NHS to trial digital passports to free up staff movement

The smartphone-based passports will contain a basic set of credentials that will allow staff to be quickly deployed to different
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Hot Iron
31 March 2020

Strike while the iron is hot: why we need to go further on digital health

Graham Kendall, director of the Digital Healthcare Council, explores why there is much more to be done with regards to
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A woman's hands holding a smartphone
31 March 2020

NHS launches text message support service for people with Covid-19

Daily texts will be sent by the NHS to new patients who register their Covid-19 symptoms and contact details with
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Rachel Dunscombe, CTO of Visionabel
30 March 2020

Rachel Dunscombe to lead on Visionable platform strategy as CTO

The former Salford Royal CIO joins Visionable at a pivotal moment for the video consultation market, as it scrambles to
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30 March 2020

Summer Schools July 2020 dates moved to September

The dates of Digital Health Summer Schools 2020 have been moved and are to be replaced with new online Virtual
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a care worker makes a house call to a senior client at her home
30 March 2020

Exc: Five areas to be examined by PRSB as it sets standards for social care

The PRSB will use information gathered in focus groups to develop standards for social care professionals to follow when developing
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30 March 2020

Online triage tools to be ‘rapidly procured’ to manage Covid-19 pressures

In a letter sent to providers last week, GP surgeries were told to move to a triage-first model of care
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