The CCIO Profile: Andy Webster, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
After a somewhat brief absence – our profile series is back with a bang. First up, we have Andy Webster, the CCIO at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Exclusive: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust appoints new CDIO
Paul Jones replaces Richard Corbridge, who left Leeds Teaching Hospital in March 2019 to take up a position at Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Health CIO
Leeds Teaching Hospitals offers video link for outpatient appointments
Using the Virtual Clinic platform by Involve Visual Collaboration, patients can access a clinicians from the comfort of their own home.
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Richard Corbridge to leave Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Digital Health News understands Corbridge, who joined Leeds in 2017, is joining Walgreens Boots Alliance as its global director of innovation.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals pilots eFax after missing ‘Axe the Fax’ target
Last year the trust pledged to bin 320 of its fax machines by January 1, 2019 as part of the campaign, but only 127 have been removed so far.
Clinical Software
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Improving patient safety with Scan4Safety
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has used a healthcare e-commerce solution since 2002, and in recent years has introduced a cloud-based catalogue system – making it far easier to share standardised data – and an inventory control system.
Infrastructure
Leeds shoots for 100% digitisation of histopathology slides
The programme looks at the possibility of harnessing artificial intelligence to improve the speed and accuracy of cancer diagnoses.
AI and Analytics
Leeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’ by 1 January
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the New Year in a bid oust outdated tech from its wards.
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Leeds credits ‘dramatic’ improvement in patient visibility to Scan4Safety
Barcode technology means patient location can now be tracked in near real-time at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, its associate director of commercial and procurement has told Digital Health News.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals approves further development of in-house EHR
The board of The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has given the green light for the development of its in-house electronic health record (EHR) to continue for another three years.
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