NHS Digital releases cervical screening data tool
NHS Digital has created an online interactive tool for cervical screening data in the hope of halting the fall in the number of women attending screenings.
Analytics
Data analytics can boost mental healthcare – trust CEO
Data analytics will be crucial to improving the delivery of mental healthcare and demonstrating the need for investment in it, a trust chief executive has argued.
Infrastructure
Google’s DeepMind will deploy Streams at Taunton and Somerset
Google’s AI arm, DeepMind Health, will deploy its clinical alerting app, Streams, at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Infrastructure
London trust researching clinical use of holograms
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust is using Microsoft’s HoloLens to explore how holograms might be used in clinical care.
Digital Patient
West Suffolk identifies data errors in discharge summaries
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has identified technical problems in its Cerner EPR, known locally as e-care, leading to inaccuracies in discharge letters automatically sent to local GPs.
Clinical Software 2
NHS Improvement to automatically collect winter data from trusts
All NHS trusts will have their daily situation reports (SitRep) automatically collected by NHS Improvement from October 2017.
Analytics
Active national support key to EPR success, says leading CCIO
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust CCIO Mark Simpson says national support has been key to the success of his trust’s EPR implementation, and argues continuing backing from NHS Digital will be vital as the system evolves.
Clinical Software
Another executive director to depart NHS Digital
A second member of the executive team at NHS Digital is to leave the organisation in the latest major change to the board ahead of the arrival of new chief executive Sarah Wilkinson.
Analytics 2
CIOs and CCIOs must be involved at board level – Bryant
Beverley Bryant from NHS Digital has said NHS IT leaders need to be recognised at board level by trusts to drive technology forward.
CCIO Network 1
NHS Forth Valley saves thousands of pounds by tracking equipment
NHS Forth Valley has saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by using radio frequency identification to track medical devices.
Infrastructure