Feedback expands its cloud-based tuberculosis programme in rural India
Feedback will be expanding is TB screening programme, thanks to funding from Amazon Web Services to cover the cost of a pilot in rural Indian communities.
Clinical Software
Sussex ICS to use Bleepa and CareLocker tech as part of national pilot
Sussex ICS is piloting Bleepa and CareLocker technology to tackle the elective care backlog and bring diagnoistic services to the community.
Infrastructure
Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This month’s round up includes: a new site for the NHS and SMEs on working together, a specialist e-prescribing deployment, and a tool to help pharmacists access the NHS Summary Care Record.
News
Tom’s digital health disruptors: rating apps
Services that allow users to rate NHS care have been around for longer than you might think; and there are new apps coming onto the market. Digital Health News reporter Thomas Meek charts their development in his latest column.
Digital Patient
ICT service launches whistleblowing tool
Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Luton ICT Services has launched a feedback tool that it says provides a simple, anonymous solution for NHS staff and patients to report concerns about the way services are run.
News
Southern Health listens with app
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has launched a mobile app for patients to send feedback to the trust as a video, sound recording, picture or text.
News
Another view of feedback
Neil Paul values user review sites; as long as he knows something about the people doing the reviewing. The NHS’ online feedback sites need to adopt some of the same thinking, he suggests.
AI and Analytics
Change at the top of Patient Opinion
Paul Hodgkin, the Sheffield GP who founded Patient Opinion, has stood down as chief executive, and James Munro, its director of research and information, has taken over the role.
News
Opinion formers
Patient Opinion and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust were winners at last year’s EHI Awards. Claire Read talks to new chief executive Dr James Munro about the winning project and his plans for the service.
Feature
Power to the people
Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, reflects on the government’s industrialised feedback frenzy – and whether it will deliver for patients in the social world of the twentieth century.
Feature