Smart Infrastructure: Improving healthcare
Infrastructure has traditionally been thought of in terms of solid structures: schools, roads, hospitals, power stations, telecommunications networks and sports facilities. But in recent years, digital technologies have started a revolution; one which is now extending to infrastructure, and which could support the transformation of healthcare.
Infrastructure
Regional Hospital Protects Critical Healthcare Data and Achieves Regulatory Compliance
With the ability to detect and eliminate zero-day and targeted cyber-attacks through a simple management platform, Check Point solutions keep critical healthcare operations up and running whilst meeting government healthcare regulatory requirements.
Cyber Security
AHPs leading NHS transformation
Dragon Medical speech recognition integrated into clinical documentation speeds patient communication, helps clinicians achieve a better work-life balance and frees up resources to focus on NHS transformation.
Clinical Software
Medical Device Interoperability – Enhancing patient data, an insight to ‘The art of the possible’
Modernising healthcare organisations with technology, connecting medical devices, sharing patient data… they all impact on how we care for patients, how it shapes information technology needs to inform strategy for both IT Heads and Clinical Engineering departments. What benefits are provided by an MDI solution? How can connected devices help reduce manual transcription errors and observation recording time and deliver better information into the hands of the clinician?
Interoperability
Going virtual – how Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust revolutionised their fracture clinic
NHS Fracture Clinics in the U.K. are notoriously busy. At Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, it is no different. The service is led by a team of consultants with a team of registered nurses, healthcare assistants, plaster technicians and clerical staff, often treating thousands of patients every year who have visited A&E with a suspected fracture.
Clinical Software
Wellmark ACO: Wellmark® Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Iowa
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a mutual healthcare insurer providing health coverage to more than two million people across Iowa and South Dakota, it is part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a trusted national network that covers more than 100 million US lives.
AI and Analytics
UKCloud Health ramps up for the Health & Social Care Network: The next step for a secure health ecosystem
HSCN will enable customers to develop a more modern approach to tackling the escalating cyber security threats, relying more heavily on application providers to develop the security overlay, rather than relying on the network itself.
Health CIO
Creating the building blocks for seamless healthcare mobility: How to prepare for the move to a mobile-first solution in the healthcare sector
It’s vital for healthcare organisations to have a strategy in place before moving towards mobile working. The building blocks are key and if implemented correctly, moving to seamless, secure and flexible mobility could help address the pressures facing the sector.
Infrastructure
University Hospital Southampton’s path to a clinical EPR – department by department
iMDsoft spoke with Adrian Byrne, Director of Informatics at UHS about their clinical electronic patient record (EPR) implementation. UHS has chosen a clinical EPR solution that combines the MetaVision systems for ICU, HDU, theatres and ward observations, providing one hospital-wide clinical record across the patient journey.
Clinical Software
Fast and secure access to patient data helps drive ‘Good’ rating in Care Quality Commission report
Delivering acute care across Cheshire, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust employs more than 4,500 staff and provides 579 hospital beds across three sites. Established as an NHS Trust in April 1991, Mid Cheshire Hospitals became a Foundation Trust in April 2008 and provides a range of services including Accident & Emergency (A&E), maternity, outpatient, and children’s health.
Health CIO