Patient safety charity calls for regulatory standards for medical apps
There are “more questions than answers” surrounding the safety of medical apps, the cheif executive of Patient Safety Learning told an audience in London.
Digital Patient
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
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
The ABCs of Mobile Device Management: security essentials for your organisation’s first MDM deployment
Making greater use of mobile technology can offer significant benefits for healthcare organisations. Increased productivity, bolstered patient safety and better clinical decision making can all result from staff having the information they need at their fingertips.
Cyber Security
Suspended NHS signposting app hopes to restart by end of week
A healthcare signposting app and website reportedly suspended over clinical assurance concerns is hoping to resume service by the end of this week.
Digital Patient
St George’s closes six buildings ‘not fit for purpose’
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been forced to close six of its buildings which they recognised as being unfit for purpose.
Infrastructure 3
St George’s patient record keeping at “extreme” risk
A major London teaching hospital has rated its record keeping at “extreme” risk in its risk register with consequences to patient safety.
Clinical Software
Incident reporting systems: future strategies for patient safety improvement
James Titcombe, patient safety specialist at Datix, says organisations need to avoid blame culture when it comes to reporting and learning from incidents; and to share what works with others.
Interoperability
An organisation with a memory: what needs to change?
James Titcombe OBE, Patient Safety Specialist at Datix and patient safety campaigner, looks at some of the key issues involved with a continued excellence in care. Here we discuss Sir Liam Donaldson’s seminal 2000 report ‘An organisation with a memory’.
AI and Analytics
Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This week’s industry round up covers a new acquisition and some software changes that leverage wearable health data. It includes Sunquest’s acquisition of NHS developed technology, a new e-rostering service in Leeds and recognition of technology’s impor
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