New Nightingale hospital to use Harrogate and District’s Silverlink PAS
The PAS will be an extension of the Silverlink system used by Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, which will be running the new Nightingale site.
Clinical Software 6

Microsoft and NHS Digital to provide new clinical capabilities through Teams
NHS Digital plans to build on its licensing agreement for Microsoft Teams to transform NHSmail into a ‘fully featured collaboration platform’.
News

Connect Health rolls out AI triage service for MSK patients
PhysioNow is a chatbot-based triage application designed to offer round-the-clock support and self-management for MSK patients.
Digital Patient

New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’
Nye Health, a free service that allows GPs to offer remote consultations from any device, integrates with existing systems to keep data within the NHS.
Digital Patient

Oxford University launches Covid-19 government response tracker
The Covid-19 Government Response Tracker contains data from 73 countries and records the actions governments have taken in response to coronavirus.
Digital Patient

‘World’s first’ multi-user conversational robots to support elderly healthcare
A four-year project funded by Horizon2020 will develop socially assistive robots able to perform “open social conversation” in a healthcare setting.
Infrastructure

Barts extends Cerner EPR to NHS Nightingale hospital
NHS Nightingale, the temporary London mega-hospital set up to help the NHS cope with coronavirus patients will use Barts Health NHS Trust’s EPR together with its enterprise RIS and lab systems.
Clinical Software 1

Covid-19: NHS to trial digital passports to free up staff movement
The smartphone-based passports will contain a basic set of credentials that will allow staff to be quickly deployed to different NHS sites where required.
News

NHS launches text message support service for people with Covid-19
Daily texts will be sent by the NHS to new patients who register their Covid-19 symptoms and contact details with the NHS 111 online service.
Digital Patient 7

Rachel Dunscombe to lead on Visionable platform strategy as CTO
The former Salford Royal CIO joins Visionable at a pivotal moment for the video consultation market, as it scrambles to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Health CIO