Leeds links staff training with devices
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented new software to reduce the misuse of medical devices in its hospitals.
Infrastructure
Choosing Wisely set for digital support
Doctors are likely to have access to online modules about the dangers of overprescribing medicines and communicating these to patients with the UK launch of the Choosing Wisely campaign by the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges.
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BSI publishes apps development standard
The British Standards Institution has published a set of standards to support developers creating health and wellness apps.
Interoperability
Lancashire uses digital sleep aid
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust is giving patients access to an app to help people with sleeping problems.
Digital Patient
Kent babies are ‘born to move’
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has launched a mobile app to help parents of newborn babies and young children with brain development and physical activity.
Digital Patient
RCP apps guidance attacked
Recent guidance from the Royal College of Physicians that says doctors should only use medical apps carrying a CE mark has come under fire from Charles Lowe, managing director of the Digital Health and Care Alliance.
News
Hunt back as health secretary
Jeremy Hunt is to remain health secretary following the Conservative Party’s victory in last week’s general election, and the formation of the first all-Conservative cabinet in 18 years.
News
Oxford looks to Antwerp for chief exec
Bruno Holthof has been appointed as the new chief executive of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and listed the use of new technologies among his priorities for the organisation.
News
Servelec buys Aura Healthcare
Servelec has acquired Aura Healthcare, a software developer set up by two former senior figures in iSoft (now CSC), with a view to adding its patient flow system to its acute and community EPRs.
News
QR coded helmets to help in RTAs
Starting this summer, paramedics at South East Coast Ambulance Service will be able to access details of people involved in motorcycle or bicycle accidents by scanning a barcode on their helmet.
Digital Patient