NHS England buys 1600 iPhones
11 November 2013
12:00 AM
NHS England has spent more than £670,000 on iPhones and iPads for staff during its first year in existence.
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Birmingham to offer PICS licence-free
11 November 2013
12:00 AM
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust will offer its Prescribing Information and Communication System to the NHS on a licence-free basis instead of “open-sourcing” it.
Plymouth uses speech recognition
11 November 2013
12:00 AM
Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust cleared a massive pathology report backlog and freed up significant staff time through the use of speech recognition technology.
Three CSUs explore ‘partnership’
8 November 2013
12:00 AM
North West London, South London and Kent and Medway commissioning support units are exploring a three-way partnership to secure a place on the ‘lead provider framework agreement’ being developed by NHS England.
New working party on dose monitoring
8 November 2013
12:00 AM
The Department of Health is to set up a new working party on radiation dose monitoring.
Greater Manchester makes paperless leap
8 November 2013
12:00 AM
All ten acute trusts in Greater Manchester will have stopped using paper to send discharge summaries to GP practices by the end of the month, and willl be sending correspondence electronically through PCTI’s EDT Hub.
BT signs interoperability agreements
8 November 2013
12:00 AM
Four major healthcare IT companies have signed agreements with each other to offer a new interoperability solution to the NHS.
Consultant Connect helps cut thousands of unnecessary hospital visits in Wales
17 December 2024
Consultant Connect says it helped patients across NHS Wales avoid more than 58,000 unnecessary hospital
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
17 December 2024
Today’s Coffee Briefing covers new AI software that can determine time of stroke with remarkable
Scotland’s main GP software supplier goes into administration
17 December 2024
The main GP software supplier for Scotland has voluntarily placed itself under administration owing to
Southampton GPs trial handheld translation device for patients
17 December 2024
A network of GP surgeries in Southampton have boosted communication with non-English-speaking patients following a
Study to explore digital weight management support for obesity
16 December 2024
A study at the University of Warwick is looking at how an app and remote
