Yorkshire and Humber commits to more integrated care
The Yorkshire and Humber Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) group has announced that it plans to deliver a “cohort of the willing” regardless of the outcome of its LHCRE bid.
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Bids for Local Health and Care Record Exemplar status due tomorrow
Regional health and care collaborative communities in England have until tomorrow (26 April) to submit their bids for LHCRE status.
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Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to drop Lorenzo in 2020
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will end its contract with DXC Technology in 2020 after signing up System C as its new EPR supplier.
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BenevolentAI receives $115m cash injection to identify new drug treatments
British artificial intelligence firm BenevolentAI has raised $115 million in new funding, which will be used to expand the platform’s capabilities in finding new drug treatments.
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Clinicians begin year-long informatics fellowship at NHS Digital
Four frontline clinicians have started begun a year’s informatics fellowship at NHS Digital to support the design of a new generation of digital tools and services for NHS staff and patients.
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Ambulance trust selects Docman to streamline GP correspondence
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has selected Docman Connect to help streamline its transfer of electronic clinical correspondence to GPs.
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Baroness Tessa Jowell to hand over medical data to global database
Baroness Tessa Jowell is to be the first cancer patient to hand over her medical data to a global database which aims to discover the next generation of cures for rare cancers.
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Two GDE trusts go live with link-up of electronic patient records
Digital Health News spoke to Dermot O’Riordan, CCIO at West Suffolk Hospital and Afzal Chaudhry, CCIO at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) about the project which allows clinicians to access patient data that is held within the other trust’s EPR system.
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Salford CCG to trial Hitachi diabetes solution under NHS programme
Salford Clinical Commissioning Group will pilot a diabetes prevention solution designed by Hitachi Consulting in conjunction with Salford Royal Foundation NHS Trust, as part of an NHS programme to tackle the disease.
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Greater Manchester partnership launches health data website
A partnership which includes a council and a NHS trust in Greater Manchester has launched a new website designed to bring together health and care data.
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