Industry: Technology has bigger part to play in health and care reforms
The reforms aim to address the record high of 5.5million people waiting for elective surgery in England and bring health and social care closer together.
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Chelsea and Westminster reduces admin burden with DrDoctor
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation trust is transforming patient communications and pre-assesments, with patient engagement platform DrDoctor.
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University Hospitals Birmingham deploys outpatient tech from DrDoctor
Using DrDoctor’s tools patients can now view hospital letters online and take part in video consultations from their smartphone, tablets or laptops.
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Oxford University Hospitals rolls out digital hospital appointments letters
Oxford University Hospitals has partnered with software company DrDoctor to give all patients the option to view their hospital appointment letters online.
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Ensure support for digital based patient-initiated follow ups, experts say
Graham Kendall, director of the Digital Healthcare Council, said evidence “overwhelmingly” suggests patients actively involved in their care do better.
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DrDoctor CEO has high hopes for post-Covid innovation
Speaking to Digital Health, the CEO of DrDoctor has said he hopes the drive for innovation across the health service will continue post Covid-19.
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DrDoctor and Intouch with Health partner for digital pathways solution
The solution combines DrDoctor’s video consultation platform and Intouch’s integrated virtual clinical management suite to help trusts cope amid Covid-19.
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New technologies can help break the looming backlog in the NHS
As the NHS starts to recover from Covid, Tom Whicher, an NHS Innovation Fellow, looks into how new tech can help with the looming backlog.
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DrDoctor launches free Covid-19 toolkit for NHS Trusts
DrDoctor has launched a free Covid-19 toolkit, which includes videio consultations and a digital symptom assessment tracker for NHS trusts.
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals go live with DrDoctor
The text messaging service went live in ophthalmology gastroenterology and respiratory services within the trust on 1 August.
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