Cambio signs ‘landmark’ PFM deal with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has signed a five-year contract with Cambio Healthcare Systems to implement its patient flow management (PFM) system.
Clinical Software 1
Sweet dreams are made of this: Using virtual reality to improve mental health
Can devices such as the ‘Dream Machine’ improve mental health? Shreshtha Trivedi sits down for a chat with inventor and virtual reality expert Dr Jamil El-Imad to hear his views on virtual reality and how it can democratise wellbeing.
AI and Analytics
Homegrown app takes strain off wrists at mental health trust
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has developed a bespoke mobile app that’s eliminating handwritten notes by allowing clinical staff to record observations electronically.
Clinical Software 2
Servelec snags mental health EPR contract in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a new electronic patient record system for mental health services, supplied by Servelec HSC.
Clinical Software
Is the NHS reinforcing mental health stigma through excessive data secrecy?
If mental health data remains more secretive than HIV, cancer or diabetes, care inequality will continue, writes Dr James Reed, CCIO of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
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Mental health trust partners with ANS Group for new network solution
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has partnered up with the ANS Group to introduce a new network solution to help speed up the checking-in processes and enable remote patient care.
Infrastructure
Mental health services: How to fill data gaps to improve outcomes and drive efficiencies
Dr Gabriel Ma, clinical lead at BridgeHead Software and a former NHS psychiatry doctor, makes the case for independent clinical archive (ICA), which, according to him, will reduce clinical risk and help mental health practitioners with accurate decision-making.
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Mental health text service for young people launched in Yorkshire
A mental health and wellbeing text service aimed at young people called Buzz Us has been commissioned across North Yorkshire by the NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG.
Digital Patient
UK employees back workplace wearables for mental health support
More than half of working adults in the UK would be would be prepared to wear devices designed to monitor their mental health and flag troubling symptoms, a new study has found.
News
NHS to offer Skype consultations for new mums affected by mental ill health
New mums who experience mental ill health are to be given access to consultations through Skype as part of further new investment in perinatal mental healthcare.
Digital Patient