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This weekâs healthcare IT round-up focuses on software deployments, ranging from the addition of electronic referrals to palliative care from Cumbriaâs e-referral service, to another trust rolling out wi-fi for patients.
Alder Hey Childrenâs NHS Foundation Trust has entered a collaboration with the Hartree Centre to use IBM’s artificial intelligence programme Watson to create the UK’s first ‘cognitive hospital’; starting with a tool to help anxious children.
NHS Improvement is to develop a procurement framework for patient level information costing systems in a bid to provide assurance to more than100 trusts that have yet to invest in a system.
The Department of Health has ordered contracts being negotiated with TPP to be put under review while an issue with the use of the QRisk2 calculator with its systems is resolved.
CSC will merge with HP Enterprise Services, the two US-based technology companies have announced.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has published its first Data Quality Maturity Index, which assesses NHS providers on the quality of the data they submit to the centre.
The Care Quality Commission will push ahead with plans to scale down inspections and instead rely more heavily on data and user feedback.
A âmajor incidentâ has been declared at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust âfor
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has postponed the go-live of its Oracle Health electronic patient record
NHS trusts using the FDP have treated on average 114 more inpatients in theatres a
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has delayed the go live for its Cerner Millennium
Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute will sit on the
