Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
11 July 2024
11:30 AM
This edition of Coffee Time Briefing includes a call for chartered status for tech professionals and text message initiative for NHS Scotland.
News
Children’s Health Ireland to implement interoperability platform
11 July 2024
11:00 AM
Children’s Health Ireland is working with InterSystems to implement an interoperability platform at the new digital children’s hospital in Dublin.
Hull digital study sees 50% fall in COPD emergency attendances
11 July 2024
8:30 AM
A study of a COPD digital service at Hull University Teaching Hospitals resulted in a 50% reduction in emergency attendances and admissions.
West Northamptonshire to launch cloud-based social care system
10 July 2024
1:30 PM
West Northamptonshire Council is implementing its System C’s case management app for adult social care in the region.
Morley and Bracken first keynotes confirmed for Rewired 2025
10 July 2024
11:00 AM
Dr Jessica Morley and Mike Bracken will return to Rewired next March as keynotes to inspire and inform the NHS’ digital leaders.
Wes Streeting: We can make Britain a powerhouse for MedTech
10 July 2024
8:30 AM
Health secretary Wes Streeting has pledged that the new government will “make Britain a powerhouse for life sciences and medical technology”.
£1m project explores how 5G can transform North East healthcare
9 July 2024
1:34 PM
A £1m project will explore how 5G technologies can improve and speed up the delivery of healthcare in the North East.
SCR opt-out does not apply to care.data
22 October 2013
Care.data information leaflets being sent to households in January will tell patients that an opt-out
TrakCare Lab live in Wales
22 October 2013
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the first board to go-live with the new Welsh
UnitedHealth UK rebrands as Optum
22 October 2013
UnitedHealth UK, supplier of ScriptSwitch software, is rebranding as Optum.
Ascribe users told to ‘plan do, review’
22 October 2013
“Plan, do, review” and spend more time looking at healthcare outcomes, Ascribe’s executive chairman advises
Newham GPs share data via Web
21 October 2013
Newham GPs are sharing their patient data with community matrons, hospital diabetes specialists and mental
