TeleTracking joins Digital Healthcare Council to boost patient tracking
Through joining the Digital Healthcare Council TeleTracking hopes to help deliver a “digitally-led, patient-centric NHS”.
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New standard to improve medicines information sharing set to launch
It is hoped a standardised approach to sharing medicines information will reduce medicines related errors and, ultimately, improve patient safety.
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NHS saves more than 2 million hours using Microsoft Teams
In the first six months Microsoft Teams was used across the health service it replaced 14.5m phone calls and hosted more than 32m virtual meetings.
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Greater Manchester Care Record to get data from care home Covid tracker
The Greater Manchester Care Record is recieving data from the Safe Steps Covid Tracker, an app that provides real-time data on infection rates.
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Babylon and Microsoft join forces to improve healthcare through AI
Through exploring opportunities to enhance current AI tools Babylon and Microsoft aim to shift focus “from sick care to preventative healthcare”.
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Call for acute clinicians to answer NHSX EPR usability survey
NHSX in August launched a survey to better understand how electronic patient records (EPRs) are performing across the country.
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Jersey selects IMS MAXIMS to deliver electronic patient record
IMS MAXIMS will work alongside the Jersey government to support to implementation of the Jersey Care Record, with aim of reaching HIMSS level 7.
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Gloucestershire Hospitals aims for HIMSS 6 in ‘as quicker time as possible’
Starting out on a “very red piece of paper” Gloucestershire Hospitals was given a HIMSS rating of 0.02 in 2019 and is now a Digital Aspirant.
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Budget 2021: Digital healthcare leaders react to NHS funding pledges
Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed the NHS funding for IT upgrades and digital health technology in today’s budget, but leaders have called for more detail.
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Sunak confirms £2.1bn for NHS technology for more ‘connected’ hospitals
Announcing the 2021 budget in the House of Commons today (October 27) Sunak said it was about “levelling up” the economy for an “age of optimism”.
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