Advanced helping self-isolating clinicians take NHS 111 calls from home
Advanced has helped clinicians in self isolation to continue to take NHS 111 calls after it extended its patient management system, Adastra.
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Privacy measures need to be in place if contact-tracing apps are to work
Those making Covid-19 tracing apps need to have the right privacy measures in place if they are to convince the public to use them, a BCS report has said.
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NHS Digital CEO says healthcare tech is ‘here to stay’ after Covid-19
Sarah Wilkinson has said some healthcare technology which has been rolled out at scale in response to the Covid-19 outbreak is “here to stay”.
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NHSX CEO dismisses private sector involvement in contact-tracing app
Matthew Gould has said he wants to “knock on the head” any suggestion that data from the NHS contact-tracing app will be shared with the private sector.
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NHS Fife extends use of Alcidion’s Patientrack software
NHS Fife has extended the use of Alcidion’s Patientrack early warning technology to community hospitals and paediatrics in a 5-year deal.
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University Hospital Southampton staff using Teams for Covid-19 results
Staff at University Hospital Southampton are using Microsoft Teams on their mobile phones to quickly find out who has Covid-19 and who does not.
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Yeovil District Hospital receiving medical data from Dorset Care Record
Staff working at Yeovil District Hospital are receiving information feeds from the Dorset Care Record for the first time.
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Additional information to be automatically added to Summary Care Record
Additional information will be automatically added to of any patient who has not expressed a preference that information isn’t shared.
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Coronavirus news round-up: Digital Health debrief
From concerns surrounding privacy of contract-tracing apps to rapid deployment of mobile solutions, here’s a recap of our Covid-19 coverage.
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Southern Health deploys mobile capability for community nurses in 6 days
Southern Health NHS FT has deployed a mobile capability for its community nurses in six days, in order to help tackle the challenges presented by Covid-19.
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