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2024 predictions: Digital Health leaders look ahead to new year for …
Jan 2, 2024 · Remote patient monitoring devices and wearables are expected to become more sophisticated and widely adopted. These devices could enable real-time tracking of various health metrics, providing healthcare professionals with valuable data for personalised care.
Largest EPR implementation programme in UK already reporting …
Mar 15, 2023 · Medication administration incidents have significantly reduced following the go live of an electronic patient record (EPR) at the largest trust in the UK, its leaders have said.
Philips Future Health Index 2024: Better care for more people
6 days ago · Based on 3,000 responses from healthcare leaders across 14 countries, the 2024 Future Health Index explores how healthcare leaders view their organisation’s ability to deliver high-quality care. In this year’s report the focus is on gaps in staffing, insights, and sustainability. The UK report ...
Barking, Havering and Redbridge’s £44m deal for EPR
Sep 8, 2023 · The trust will spend £44 million on Oracle Cerner's Millennium system to replace paper records and improve patient care. The deal is part of the national frontline digitisation programme and the North East London Integrated Care System.
Poor IT systems factored in CQC failings, says DHSC report
Jul 30, 2024 · The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has faced significant problems with its provider portal and regulatory platform, which have hampered its ability to regulate health and social care providers, according to a DHSC interim report. The report identifies IT issues as one of the main reasons for CQC's loss of credibility and calls for urgent actions to improve the systems and restore trust.
NHS England awards £330m Federated Data Platform contract to …
Nov 21, 2023 · Palantir will operate the federated data platform (FDP) project, a software that connects data across NHS trusts and ICSs, for seven years. The FDP aims to improve patient care, reduce waiting lists and health inequalities, and is not for research or GP data.
PureHealth Acquires the UK’s Largest Private Healthcare Group for …
Sep 1, 2023 · PureHealth, the largest healthcare platform in the Middle East, has signed an agreement to buy Circle Health Group, the UK’s largest private hospital operator. The acquisition aims to deliver world-class medical care to patients globally and expand the network of …
A way forward for NHS trusts struggling to implement electronic …
Nov 7, 2023 · Penny Kechagioglou is CCIO, deputy chief medical officer, and consultant clinical oncologist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, as well as vice-chair of Digital Health’s CCIO Advisory Panel.
Global IT outage disrupting NHS ’caused by antivirus software’
Jul 19, 2024 · A global IT fault affecting Windows computers and antivirus firm CrowdStrike Falcon disrupted healthcare services in the UK on 18-19 July 2024. NHS England confirmed that the outage was affecting EMIS, a system used by GP practices and pharmacies, and urged patients to be patient.