Salford harnesses robot technology to speed up medicine dispensing
PillTime is a dispensary, featuring a robot and optical checker which has been set up in the global digital exemplars (GDE) pharmacy deparment.
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Best and brightest to be recognised at the second Digital Health Awards
The awards, which form part of the Digital Health Summer Schools, are the only awards judged and voted by the 3,000 plus members of Digital Health Networks.
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ORCHA chief executive gives thoughts on problems facing medical apps
Speaking at a Royal Society of Medicine event, Liz Ashall-Payne said awareness, accessibility, trust and governance were among the challenges.
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Poole Hospital launches virtual fracture clinic to improve patient experience
The clinic also aims to reduce waiting times by ensuring only those who need an appointment are given one in a timely manner.
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Royal College of Physicians recruiting for digital healthcare lead
The professional body is looking for iindividual who has experience of implementing new technologies or evaluating digital healthcare solutions.
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Movers and shakers news round-up
April’s movers and shakers round-up features Darren Mckenna being appointed as the new chair of NHS Providers’ informatics network.
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Patient safety charity calls for regulatory standards for medical apps
There are “more questions than answers” surrounding the safety of medical apps, the cheif executive of Patient Safety Learning told an audience in London.
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Digital Health update following yesterday’s outage
We would like to apologise to readers and customers after our site had to be taken down for much of yesterday after a brute force hack.
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Amazon Alexa now compliant with US healthcare data privacy rules
As part of the news, Amazon also announced number of partnerships which include enabling patients to reorder prescriptions and get updates from hospitals.
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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital signs contract for open data platform
The project will see RNOH, replace their legacy technology with a newer clinical data platform and allow the trust to embark on an innovation led strategy.
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