Healthcare IT news in brief
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.
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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.
The Academic Health Science Networks hope the report will help companies navigate the “innovation maze”
The West of England AHSNand mental health charities have launched Create Open Health, an initiative
App developers legally and routinely share data but evidence suggest many fail to provide privacy
It’s often thought that technology isolate older generations but research from Vodafone suggests it can
Hadley Beeman, who was appointed by the health and social care secretary in August 2018,