Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
The final briefing of the week includes a new NHS Blood and Transplant training app and women’s health and wellness AI platform Ema securing funding.
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NHS Blood and Transplant CDO: ‘Focus on innovation, not the bottom line’
Healthcare executives should encourage technical innovation regardless of whether it reduces the bottom line, the Chief Digital Officer of NHSBT has said.
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NHSBT blood pilot to start in Liverpool
The third of three pilot projects to improve the management of blood products in the NHS will get underway this month thanks to a joint venture between NHS Blood and Transplant, the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, and MSoft.
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NHSBT SP-ICEs up reports
NHS Blood and Transplant is undertaking an electronic reporting pilot with nine hospitals in England, which could lead to the development of a national antibody database.
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Four hospitals trial blood use software
NHS Blood and Transplant is trialing US software that could give hospitals in England and Wales more information about their use of blood.
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Software glitch muddles donor wishes
An independent review into how the wrong organs were removed from 25 donors in the UK has found that faulty computer software lay at the heart of the problem. The review, led by Professor Sir Gordon Duff, concludes that the error originated in faulty data conversion software that was used to upload data on donation preferences […]
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Multimedia organ donor campaign launches
NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a UK-wide multimedia campaign to promote organ donation. The £3m campaign, coordinated by the government’s Central Office of Information, includes the health service’s first national television campaign and an online game. The campaign aims to highlight the fact that three people in need of a transplant die every day, […]
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NHSBT secures portable media
NHS Blood and Transplant is rolling out a project to protect data on laptops, PCs, USB sticks and other portable media. The project was launched in 2008 to meet government requirements to protect mobile devices from malware, data loss and theft. The agency is working with Integralis, which provides IT security services, and solutions from […]
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Software replaces fax and phone organ allocation
NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating organs for transplant.
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