All Technology and innovation articles – Page 5
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Chutzpah, hope and misplaced faith
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Marching into No.10
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The state of maternity services
This week, the team look at two long-running and contentious issues in the NHS.
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CommentGovernment must develop an NHS digitisation plan and stick to it
A bold digital future for health and care is possible – but only with clear vision, sustained investment, and the humility to learn lessons from past failures, writes Tom Hardie
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NewsStaff locked in hospital during ‘unprecedented’ power cut
Staff were effectively “locked in” a hospital at night during a power cut that led to a major incident being declared last year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust adopts neighbour’s EPR
One of the final seven trusts without an electronic patient record is set to partner with its neighbour to implement Oracle Health’s system.
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HSJ PartnersBeyond the status quo: Why public-private partnerships are the NHS’s next frontier
To meet rising demand, the NHS must embrace public–private collaboration that delivers proven tech solutions and enables faster, more efficient patient care, writes TeleTracking’s Chris Johnson
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why AI isn’t taking off in the NHS
In many areas the NHS is still in the foothills when it comes to using artificial intelligence, with most of the innovation found in diagnostics and speech dictation.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Market failure?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsNHSE pays consultants £13.3m to help digital laggard trusts
NHS England has awarded a firm a £13.3m contract to provide “tiger teams” to help a handful of trusts install their first electronic patient record.
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NewsICB functions radically reduced in national ‘blueprint’
More than a dozen functions have been earmarked for “transfer” out of integrated care boards, including workforce planning, primary care, and digital leadership.
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NewsNHSE could impose new cancer system on struggling trusts
Trusts failing to meet cancer standards may be encouraged to use a new tool on the federated data platform, HSJ understands.
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NewsSuppliers to help design Streeting’s ‘single patient record’
NHS England is asking suppliers for advice on designing the “single patient record” (SPR), which is seeking to create a “single version of the truth” across the NHS and social care.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: What future for patient leadership?
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The FDP is an ‘empty box’ in many areas
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsHospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day
A “technical failure” caused a hospital trust to send 15-20,000 discharge letters to local GP practices on the day before the Easter bank holiday weekend, some of which dated back four months.
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NewsFlagship NHSE tech policy creating ‘patient safety risks’, claim analysts
Patient safety risks are being created by central demands that NHS organisations adopt the new federated data platform and “close down” existing systems, according to the body representing the service’s analysts.
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CommentThe NHS must get more out of the EPRs it has purchased
Almost every trust now has an electronic patient record but unless they are used correctly, the promised productivity, prevention and AI benefits will remain beyond reach, argue The Health Foundation’s Holly Krelle and Alex Lawrence
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NewsCrucial emergency care system to be scrapped by NHSE within months
An IT system that prevents 999 call-handling services from being overwhelmed is set to be withdrawn by NHS England in an effort to save money.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: What next for frontline digitisation?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.