Kettering signs System C for ‘ambitious’ 10-year digital programme
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is adopting System C’s blueprint for full hospital computerisation in a “demanding” 18-month deployment.
Clinical Software
Cyber security news round-up
Digital Health’s latest cyber security round-up covers ransomware attacks at three hospitals in Alabama, and calls for more CISO involvement in vendor procurement.
Cyber Security
Exclusive: CIO Andy Kinnear to leave NHS after 29 years services
Kinnear will leave his role in March 2020, telling Digital Health News it had been “a really tough decision” to step down.
Health CIO 13
Over 300,000 service users treated through digital NHS therapy
New digital therapy programmes have been developed through a partnership between Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and SilverCloud Health.
Digital Patient
‘No better place’ for med-tech start-ups, says Ireland’s trade minister
Pat Breen, Minister of State for Trade, Employment and Business, commended Ireland’s thriving med-tech sector during the 2019 Med in Ireland exhibition.
News
Paramedics to get access to mental health crisis plans
The National Record Locator Service enables paramedics and mental health nurses find out whether a patient has a mental health crisis plan, with a view to informing their care.
Shared Records
Rob Shaw announces he will leave NHS Digital at Christmas
NHS Digital’s deputy CEO will leave the organisation in December to pursue a consulting career, and joins a growing list of high-profile exits from the NHS in 2019.
Health CIO
Microsoft reports ‘encouraging increase’ of AI in UK healthcare
Nearly half of UK healthcare leaders reported that their organisation used artificial intelligence, reflecting an 8% increase compared to 2018.
AI and Analytics
BHF launches £10m national cardiovascular data science centre
The centre will draw data from NHS medical records, national registries and other datasets to explore new therapies and medical breakthroughs.
AI and Analytics
Beyond skin deep: using machine learning to prevent 250,000 cancer deaths
SkinVision is on a mission to 250,000 lives in next decade through the early detection of skin cancer using machine learning. Digital Health’s Owen Hughes caught up with SkinVision CEO, Erik de Heus, at the Intelligent Health conference in Basel to find out more.
AI and Analytics