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Digital Health Unplugged: June news team debrief

16 June 2020

Join senior reporter Andrea Downey, editor Hannah Crouch and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma as they discuss the NAO report into digital services England’s NHS.

Trusts across England adopt TPP’s eObs platform for more accurate info

16 June 2020

NHS Trusts covering Surrey, North East Hampshire, and Leicestershire have recently adopted TPP’s eObs platform making patient observations more accurate.

Microsoft 365 deal expected to save NHS hundreds of millions

15 June 2020

The deal, struck between NHSX, NHS Digital and Microsoft, aims to improve productivity, enhance collaboration and strengthen cyber security.

Consortium to look into algorithms for Covid-19 pneumonia diagnosis

15 June 2020

A team which is being led by the University of Oxford is looking to develop potential algorithms which could help diagnose Covid-19 pneumonia.

Kingston Hospital NHS FT looks towards HIMSS stage 7 with EDMS

15 June 2020

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected Swiss Post Solutions (SPS) to deliver an electronic document management system (EDMS).

Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out

12 June 2020

The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too slow.

‘Apparent failure’ of contact-tracing app hinders test and trace system

12 June 2020

A report criticised the government’s decision to develop a centralised contact-tracing model, raising concerns about “confidentiality and security of data”.