NHS stamp of approval ‘most important when prescribing apps’
The team found an NHS badge for digital health and apps was “overwhelmingly” the most important factor for take-up, followed by peer opinion and personal use of the technology.
Digital Patient
NHS Providers publishes guidance on NHS boards supporting digital
A guide designed to help trust leaders support NHS boards to lead their organisations into the next stage of digitisation has been published.
CCIO Network
Digital Health Unplugged: Breaking the Covid-19 backlog
Andrea Downey chats to Tom Whicher, founder of DrDoctor, and Graham Kendall, director of the Digital Healthcare Council about how tech can break the backlog.
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East Lancashire Hospitals goes live with Sectra PACS
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with Sectra’s PACS, giving staff better access to imaging from several trusts across the region.
Clinical Software
Northamptonshire picks Graphnet for integrated care record
Northamptonshire has chosen Graphnet Health to provide a shared care record for people living in the county to be used to combine care information.
Shared Records
Two Digital Aspirants select Cerner for implemented EPR
Two Digital Aspirants have selected Cerner to implement a fully integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system across both trusts.
Clinical Software
Somerset goes live with National Records Locator powered by Servelec
As part of a working group run by NHS Digital, Servelec has been asked to contribute to four national programmes to set interoperability standards.
Clinical Software
Hancock says health service has seen tech uptake ‘like never before’
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has said the Covid-19 pandemic has seen an updake of technology in healthcare “like never before”.
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Locum’s Nest launches four new staff management products
The staff bank management platform said the platform could help save the health service £1.5 billion over the next five years.
Clinical Software
Industry news in brief
This months industry round-up features news that the use NHS Digital’s e-prescription service has increased during Covid-19.
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