NHS Digital enlists Orcha to help populate App Library

Orcha uses a combination of manual and automated processes to assess applications that can be safely used within clinical settings.
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New data standard published for digital maternity records

The new standard will improve information exchange between IT systems and services, ensuring all clinicians have access to the same
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Exclusive: Former GSK security chief named new NHS Digital CISO

Former GlaxoSmithKline security chief Robert Coles has been named the new Chief Information Security Officer at NHS Digital.
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Fitbit beefs up healthcare offering with fitness and coaching platform

Fitbit Care combines the company’s activity-tracking hardware with tailored health and wellness services for insurers, employers and health systems.
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InterSystems adds mobile functionality to TrakCare EPR

InterSystems has added new functionality to its electronic patient record and management system that enables clinicians to interact with information
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Medopad goes shopping in Silicon Valley to strengthen analytics chops

UK-born health tech start-up Medopad has acquired a Silicon Valley outfit Sherbit just two months after expanding into the US.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’ by 1 January

Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the New Year in
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First performance data on private consultants published by PHIN

Validated information regarding the performance of individual consultants is now available to patients considering private healthcare.
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Surrey trust awarded additional £1m funding for ‘pioneering’ IoT dementia study

Surrey and Borders Partnership has received £1m from NHS England to fund a study that uses IoT and machine learning
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GP practices to begin trials of video consultations with Now Healthcare

The Now GP app will be used by five groups of NHS practices and one 'very large' GP practice in
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