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This week’s healthcare IT round-up focuses on software deployments, ranging from the addition of electronic referrals to palliative care from Cumbria’s e-referral service, to another trust rolling out wi-fi for patients.
Alder Hey Children’s 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.
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has announced plans to implement Epic’s electronic patient record
PharmacyX has been announced as the latest healthcare technology supplier to help deliver an electronic
Beverley Bryant said that two-factor authentication is the biggest deterrent to cyber attacks in the
A feature which allows patients to trace the status and readiness of their prescriptions has
Today’s Coffee Time Briefing covers new robotic surgery at Southampton Children’s Hospital and fall prevention
