Ransomware no longer biggest cyber security threat, report finds
7 May 2019
Hackers are turning towards hidden HTTPs tunnels that appear as normal encrypted web traffic to target healthcare organisations, research suggests.
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‘Digital midwives’ open up about role challenges and hopes for the future
3 May 2019
The digital maternity team at NHS Digital hosted a conference where 86 digital midwives got together to share their knowledge and plans for the future.
Industry news in brief
3 May 2019
This month’s industry round-up features Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care winning a national award and Leeds employing a Finnish company for e-rostering.
RCGP tech manifesto calls for prioritisation of joined-up IT systems
2 May 2019
The document recognises the potential of technology in healthcare but adds this can only be achieved once joined-up systems are in place.
PRSB publishes guidance on medicine information sharing
2 May 2019
The standards are for recording and sharing computer-readable information between hospital, GP and community-based services.
Boosted accelerator programme will fast-track digital services in NHS
2 May 2019
The Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) has been expanded to push technologies through the clinical development and regulatory approval process.
All hospitals and GPs to be connected to fibre optic broadband, Hancock says
1 May 2019
The health secretary said the upgrade would support a promise made in the NHS Long Term Plan to improve the range and access of digital healthcare services.
ICSs required to have ‘smart digital and data’ platforms by 2022
25 June 2021
NHS England’s design framework for how ICSs will operate revealed systems will locally determine the
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
25 June 2021
Our latest roundup includes activities in two Welsh health boards and Somerset taking the first
Simon Bolton to make first keynote at Virtual Summer School
24 June 2021
The interim chief executive of NHS Digital and former Test and Trace CIO will outline
GP referral technology cuts hospital appointments by just under two thirds
24 June 2021
Data has revealed that GPs who use referral technology to manage patients are able to
Cognitant Group partnerships enhance women’s health information
24 June 2021
Cognitant Group has partnered with charities and independent healthcare providers to deliver quality patient information
