Learning from experience: what makes for a successful IT deployment?
Deploying a core hospital system is a major undertaking for any Trust and can carry significant risk. System C has developed a standard deployment methodology, based on over 25 years of tried and tested experience leading to a 100% success rate.
CCIO Network
Ensuring speedy transfer of clinical correspondence to primary care with Docman Connect
Enabling clinicians to spend less time on administration is an aim across all care settings. But with GPs receiving large quantities of information, the need in primary care is perhaps particularly pressing. Docman Connect provides a solution.
Clinical Software
The growing role of digital technology in supporting self-care
According to latest research by Accenture, healthcare consumers continue to show strong use of digital technology for self-care, with mobile phones, social media and wearables showing a big upward swing.
Health CIO
Confronting the cyber threat and staying compliant
Cybercrime is on the march and brings with it the risk of worryingly levels of disruption to vital services – healthcare chief among them. In May 2017, WannaCry ransomware affected a third of NHS acute trusts and gave an insight into the impact such attacks can have.
Cyber Security
Online doctor solution for pharmacies
Index Medical Ltd is an established CQC registered online clinic offering prescription services for community pharmacy and mail order pharmacies.
Clinical Software
The future of digital health leaders: Priorities and perspectives of CIOs
Accenture Health, together with analysis and advisory company Oxford Analytica, spoke to CIOs in seven countries (including the UK) to understand their priorities and gather their views on the future of digital healthcare leaders.
Health CIO
Could tech help the looming crisis of Loneliness and the Aging Population?
As we experience a growth in the age of our population, so too are we experiencing a growth in loneliness. Such a state of affairs doesn’t only represent an unwelcome way of life for many of our older people, it also constitutes a precursor to a host of poor medical and social outcomes.
AI and Analytics
Safer Prescribing in the UK
Medicines optimisation – ensuring the right patient gets the right drug for them, at the best possible value – is a key priority in modern healthcare, but it is not without its challenges.
Clinical Software
Streamlining Medical Equipment Management for Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Ensuring the location of medical equipment is captured and recorded on a frequent basis across an expansive enterprise such as Homerton’s, is of great importance. The tools available to undertake equipment audits within the Trust were limited, as a result, information was lacking about device availability.
Clinical Software
How Population Health Management will deliver a sustainable NHS ( GGI & IBM Watson Health )
If population health management is to truly become embedded across the service, there will be barriers to overcome. It will be necessary to build coalitions of the willing, across health economies – and ensure that patients are a part of it.
AI and Analytics