Clinical decision support a ‘must-have’ pandemic resource
The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in many clinicians working in an unfamiliar setting. Found out how trusts utilised clinical decision support tools like UpToDate to help make sure staff had access to the latest information and guidance.
Clinical Software
Special Report: Interoperability
2020 has seen the digital health landscape rapidly change in a matter of months, so what has this meant for interoperability in healthcare? Jennifer Trueland investigates.
Interoperability
Special Report: VNA and Data Storage
The last seven months has seen the world deal with a number of rapid changes as Covid-19 spread across the globe, with one of the biggest changes being a switch to remote working as the default. In light of this, Jennifer Trueland investigates whether demand for vendor neutral archives (VNA) has increased across the NHS.
Infrastructure
Electronic prescribing and medication administration: what to expect and how to succeed?
Get an exclusive insight into what more than 40 electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePMA) key stakeholders, including CCIOs, CNIOs and lead pharmacists, discussed and concluded at the 2019 OPENeP Community day.
Clinical Software 1
Equity, access, and service design: Video collaboration to deliver patient care, anytime, anywhere
Video conferencing in healthcare has become more prevalent than ever in 2020. But for Visionable this is just the beginning of what video-based collaboration can achieve. The NHS technology partner is helping to deliver equitable access to services for patients. It is helping health and care organisations to redesign services, pathways, and workflow.
Clinical Software
County Durham and Darlington NHS FT increases network visibility to better detect, diagnose, resolve and report on risks
Read how the Trust deployed an Assurance Dashboard solution to streamline cyber security processes, including NHSD CareCERT compliance and DSPT submissions.
Cyber Security
Industry Spotlight: Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra
Chris Scarisbrick is in no doubt that artificial intelligence is here to stay and that it can transform the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare. But he also argues that if it is truly to make a difference, procurement processes will need to be changed and vendors closely involved.
AI and Analytics
Nutanix platform helps Western Sussex Hospitals enhance acute and outpatient services
Faced with the prospect of spiralling support costs on legacy equipment paired with an increasing need for a more reliable data platform, leaders at Western Sussex Hospitals looked to Nutanix for a solution.
Infrastructure
Industry Spotlight: Jonathan Patrick, Consultant Connect
The idea of the NHS offering more options for remote consultation and more care outside hospitals is far from a new one. But with Covid it’s taken on a real urgency and led to new demand for vendors working in the sphere. In the first of our Industry Spotlight series, Claire Read speaks to Jonathan Patrick of Consultant Connect about the practicalities of a vendor managing this explosion in interest – and what comes next.
Clinical Software
Electronic document management system helps Royal Marsden become truly paper-free
After making a complex rapid access clinic entirely paper-free, leaders at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust are now exploring other areas in which its electronic document management system could make a difference – including the management of Covid-19.
Clinical Software 2