Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
14 November 2024
11:30 AM
Today’s news roundup covers Mid Cheshire Hospitals’ new clinical research unit, plus a new mapping tool designed to track hospital equipment.
News
Northern HSC Trust goes live with Clinisys Winpath
14 November 2024
11:00 AM
Northern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland has gone live with Clinisys Winpath, the laboratory information management system.
Charlotte Refsum and Markus Bolton announced for Rewired 2025
14 November 2024
8:30 AM
Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute and Markus Bolton, CEO at Graphnet will speak at Rewired 2025.
Ambient voice technology to draft patient letters piloted for NHS use
13 November 2024
1:30 PM
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is leading a pan-London, 5,000 patient assessment of the use of ambient voice technology.
‘Ping and book’ cancer screening service to launch via NHS App
13 November 2024
11:14 AM
Women will be sent invitations for cancer screening via the NHS App as part of a new “ping and book” service, NHS England has announced.
Babylon founder Ali Parsa returns with new healthcare AI venture
13 November 2024
8:30 AM
Ali Parsa the founder of defunct health AI firm Babylon has launched AI health venture Qu to provide personal digital clinical assistants.
Synnovis attack led to at least five cases of ‘moderate’ patient harm
12 November 2024
1:30 PM
The Synnovis cyber attack led to at least 119 incidents of patient harm, including at least five cases of ‘moderate harm’, figures show.
NHS bosses meet with tech giants to discuss commercial patient database
12 December 2019
A secretive meeting, held on 24 October, saw discussions around collecting patient data to improve
Patients Know Best and Healthcare Communications join forces
12 December 2019
A partnership between Patients Know Best and Healthcare Communications will see ‘digital first’ interactions at
University Hospitals Birmingham live with new Carestream VNA
12 December 2019
UHB signed a five-year agreement with Carestream Health in July for a vendor neutral archive,
Privacy organisation raises concerns over NHS and Amazon deal
11 December 2019
The information could allow the multi-billion-pound tech company to make, advertise and sell their own
GP patients to be offered whole-genome screening in UK-first study
11 December 2019
A study will assess the benefits of screening for gene faults and will see people
