NHS Digital enlists Orcha to help populate App Library
Orcha uses a combination of manual and automated processes to assess applications that can be safely used within clinical settings.
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New data standard published for digital maternity records
The new standard will improve information exchange between IT systems and services, ensuring all clinicians have access to the same data on pregnant women.
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Exclusive: Former GSK security chief named new NHS Digital CISO
Former GlaxoSmithKline security chief Robert Coles has been named the new Chief Information Security Officer at NHS Digital.
Cyber Security
Fitbit beefs up healthcare offering with fitness and coaching platform
Fitbit Care combines the company’s activity-tracking hardware with tailored health and wellness services for insurers, employers and health systems.
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InterSystems adds mobile functionality to TrakCare EPR
InterSystems has added new functionality to its electronic patient record and management system that enables clinicians to interact with information using a touchscreen device.
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Medopad goes shopping in Silicon Valley to strengthen analytics chops
UK-born health tech start-up Medopad has acquired a Silicon Valley outfit Sherbit just two months after expanding into the US.
AI and Analytics
Leeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’ by 1 January
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the New Year in a bid oust outdated tech from its wards.
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First performance data on private consultants published by PHIN
Validated information regarding the performance of individual consultants is now available to patients considering private healthcare.
News
Surrey trust awarded additional £1m funding for ‘pioneering’ IoT dementia study
Surrey and Borders Partnership has received £1m from NHS England to fund a study that uses IoT and machine learning to support people with dementia.
AI and Analytics
GP practices to begin trials of video consultations with Now Healthcare
The Now GP app will be used by five groups of NHS practices and one ‘very large’ GP practice in England to facilitate video consultations with patients.
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