Kainos and Our Future Health extend digital delivery partnership
A digital delivery partnership between Kainos and Our Future Health has been extended, to support the latter’s goal of reaching 5 million volunteers.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
The final briefing of the week includes a new NHS Blood and Transplant training app and women’s health and wellness AI platform Ema securing funding.
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Industry news in brief
The latest Digital Health News industry round-up includes news of an online booking tool for flu vaccinations and how AI is improving the NHS blood supply chain.
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BT partners up with NHS Blood and Transplant to create digital network
BT will be connecting NHS Blood and Transplant’s fixed and mobile sites, allowing teams to digitally manage blood donor and blood collection information.
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NHS Blood and Transplant CDO: ‘Focus on innovation, not the bottom line’
Healthcare executives should encourage technical innovation regardless of whether it reduces the bottom line, the Chief Digital Officer of NHSBT has said.
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1m blood donors book online
Nearly 1.5 million blood donation appointments have been booked online since NHS Blood and Transplant introduced a digital booking system two years ago.
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Dating app encourages organ donation
Dating app Tinder has partnered with NHS Blood and Transplant to raise awareness about organ donations.
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NHSBT log-in via social media
NHS Blood and Transplant has enabled users to log-on to its website using their social media credentials as part of a bid to encourage more people to donate blood.
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Inquiry into transplant database errors
An independent review has been launched into how as many as 800,000 people on the UK organ donor register had their preferences incorrectly recorded. A “technical error” has lead to 21 cases in which the wrong organs may have been taken from deceased donors over the past six years. It is believed that the error occurred when the […]
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DH delays 084 number decision
The Department of Health has delayed making a decision on whether it should ban the use of 084 numbers in the NHS in England. The DH launched a four month consultation on the use of 084 numbers in December and promised to publish its response to the consultation by the end of April. However, last […]
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