Advisory Series: Population Health Management
Population health management is often touted as an important concept for the NHS, and key to ensuring its sustainability. But, as Owen Hughes reports, there will be barriers to overcome along the way – not least the challenges of linking previously disparate datasets.
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Advisory Series: Partnership Working
Digital’s ability to support greater partnership working in healthcare has been frequently touted. But, as Maja Dragovic reports, it’s also increasingly proving the means or motivator for initiatives which extend partnerships beyond health and into broader care.
Shared Records
Special Report: Diagnostic digital pathology
While experts welcome the current interest in diagnostic digital pathology, they believe that implementation of digital workflows, which includes integration between systems and software, is key to achieving widespread adoption and driving improvements. Claire Read reports.
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Advisory Series: Patient Safety
Many believe that technology has a crucial role to play in reducing avoidable harm and bolstering safety in the NHS. And while digital solutions are being designed to improve care, they will be properly effective only if they are efficient and reliably implemented. Claire Read reports.
Clinical Software
Advisory Series: Analytics
Data analytics has become increasingly touted as a means of transforming healthcare, not least with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. But can potential concerns around privacy – not least amid the looming spectre of care.data – finally be overcome? Shreshtha Trivedi reports.
AI and Analytics
Royal Liverpool launches its GDE strategy with region-wide EPR plans
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals’ GDE strategy was launched at iLinks with the region wide EPR a key tenet of the plans.
Clinical Software 3
InterSystems wins multi-million pound Liverpool joint-EPR tender
Intersystems’ TrakCare has been selected as the electronic patient record supplier for three Liverpool acute trusts in a multi-million pound contract.
News
Gloucestershire Hospitals suspends RTT reporting after EPR deployment
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has suspended reporting its referral to treatment (RTT) data after deploying the TrakCare EPR.
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Gloucestershire goes live with TrakCare
Another southern trust has gone live with the TrakCare electronic patient record, after more than a year of delays.
Clinical Software
NHS Lothian’s EPR needs immediate improvement – report
A major Scottish hospital has been told to immediately improve its electronic patient record, after an inspection found staff were not able to access, and often did not record, patient assessments.
Clinical Software