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Care Home
8 June 2020

Greater Manchester launches care homes Covid-19 tracker

A digital tool has been developed in Greater Manchester which helps care homes to track Covid-19 and coordinate care with
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Care Home
20 May 2020

Technology: How social care can emerge from the Covid-19 crisis

When the care sector emerges from the battle with Covid-19, Jonathan Papworth, sees an opportunity to build a new technology-enabled
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Covid-19 test
12 May 2020

Online portal launched to help care homes access Covid-19 tests

A new online portal which aims to make it easier for care homes to arrange deliveries of coronavirus test kits
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Digital Nurse
16 April 2019

NHSE to roll out new digital portal to cut delays for care home beds

The tool can be used on any device and takes staff just 30 seconds to upload details of available beds.
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3 January 2019

Nottingham Care home to roll out Ascom teleCARE platform

The platform will give Wren Hall's 100 members of staff alerts of resident alarm calls and details of their caseload
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14 August 2018

Digital ‘early warning system’ trialled at Sheffield care homes

Nursing staff are using an app to record care home residents’ vital signs and share them with clinicians at Sheffield
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A care home nurse in Calderdale teaches a resident how their technology works
18 July 2018

Connected care homes ‘could slash £1bn from NHS demand’

A project run by NHS Calderdale CCG has suggested that telehealth in care homes could cut hospital admissions by as
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Immedicare
17 November 2017

Video calling service to be launched across all care homes in Liverpool

Care homes across Liverpool will have access to a service allowing staff to video call a hospital when a resident
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4 July 2017

Care homes need better digital information sharing

A Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) survey reveals care homes need better digital information sharing following hospital discharge.
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17 June 2014

NHS Arden rolls out care homes dashboard

NHS Arden Commissioning Support Unit has created a care quality dashboard for nursing homes which is due to be rolled
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