Exclusive: DHI research reveals the barriers to digital communications with patients
Effective digital communication with patients could make the NHS more efficient and deliver huge benefits for patients, so how much progress has been made?
News
Privacy first: A report on healthcare digital transformation
In late April 2017 UKCloud Health commissioned an extensive survey with ComRes into the general public’s stance on data protection, surveying over 2,000 British adults.
Health CIO
Government issues new digital guidance to transform adult social care
Social care employers will be better able to equip their staff with digital skills, enhancing patient care, thanks to new government guidance.
News
The need for an open approach to the technology-enabled care revolution
“The Technology Enabled Care Revolution: The Way Forward for Integrated Health and Social Care” offers a review of the potential of tech in healthcare.
Infrastructure
Getting interoperability right; myths, opportunity, and ugly acronyms
NHS leaders have never been more enthusiastic about open APIs and their potential to break down silos. However, connecting IT systems isn’t quite as simple as handing over the keys, as EMIS Health’s Chief Medical Officer Shaun O’Hanlon explains.
CCIO Network
Building your business case for Single Sign-on and Authentication
Introducing new systems, technology and ways of working can be fraught with uncertainty. Imprivata’s benefits realisation study is a process run before a major implementation to make sure it will deliver the benefits required.
Health CIO
Incident reporting systems: future strategies for patient safety improvement
James Titcombe, patient safety specialist at Datix, says organisations need to avoid blame culture when it comes to reporting and learning from incidents; and to share what works with others.
Interoperability
Dealing with incident overload: learning to prioritise investigations
James Titcombe, patient safety specialist at Datix, says embedding a safety culture can be challenging, and discusses how to deal with one common obstacle – incident overload.
AI and Analytics
Fighting sepsis, saving lives
September is sepsis awareness month. This white paper outlines how technology can help to spot sepsis, and how Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is leading the deployment of Cerner’s St. John Sepsis Agent in the UK.
Clinical Software
An organisation with a memory: what needs to change?
James Titcombe OBE, Patient Safety Specialist at Datix and patient safety campaigner, looks at some of the key issues involved with a continued excellence in care. Here we discuss Sir Liam Donaldson’s seminal 2000 report ‘An organisation with a memory’.
AI and Analytics