Patientrack cuts admissions at St Helens and Knowsley
3 February 2017
The northern trust says since deploying the e-observation system they have cut high risk admissions and emergency team calls.
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Healthcare IT news in brief
3 February 2017
This week’s round-up of HealthIT news is a little NHS Digital centric, with a regional shake-up of the organisation and some well-deserved recognition for one of its established leaders.
South Gloucestershire picks Mosaic
2 February 2017
South Gloucestershire Council have picked the Mosaic electronic system to host its child service case management.
Data ‘fundamentally broken’ at St George’s
2 February 2017
The south west London trust is concerned about patient safety as it outlines issues with unreliable data, fragile IT infrastructure and ransomware attacks.
Problems accessing Google on NHS network
1 February 2017
NHS staff are having difficulty accessing Google, with many faced with a CAPTCHA page.
Man wrongly arrested for prescription fraud after IT bungle
1 February 2017
The Brighton man expected to walk out of the pharmacy with his medicine. Instead he walked out with a police escort, thanks to an IT error.
Ransomware attack blamed on misconfigured firewall
1 February 2017
The virus that shut Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust for four days likely exploited a misconfigured firewall, report finds.
North East and Yorkshire trusts adopt tech for faster scan results
10 July 2026
NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
10 July 2026
Our latest roundup features Powys Teaching Health Board rolling out an electronic prescribing and medicines
NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive cancer exams for women
9 July 2026
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board rolls out Better ePMA
9 July 2026
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS staff to face sack or prison for unlawful patient data access
8 July 2026
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or
