Technology and innovation – Page 24
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HSJ PartnersWorking in partnership with AHSNs to reset and recover after the pandemic
AHSNs can add value, supporting health and care systems to identify and adopt innovations, brokering relationships with industry and acting as catalysts for change. By Richard Stubbs
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Where the GP data-sharing scheme went wrong
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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NewsCoroners call for changes to IT systems after two suicides
Coroners have called for urgent changes to be made to GP computer systems to help prevent suicide after two cases where men took their own lives.
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NewsHancock brings in top GP to help save controversial ‘data grab’
Matt Hancock has asked a leading GP and the UK’s top statistician to help NHS Digital’s data-sharing programme, which was delayed after backlash from professional bodies and privacy groups.
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CommentNHS Digital boss: Why our delayed patient data sharing plan must go on
Simon Bolton, interim chief executive of NHS Digital, explains why its controversial new GP data sharing scheme is the right thing to do, and why it has now been delayed by two months.
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NewsMinisters bow to NHS pressure to delay GP data scheme
The government has delayed going live with a new data-sharing scheme by two months, amid warnings from its project lead that ploughing ahead risked “losing public and professional trust” in the NHS’ handling of patient data.
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CommentEthnicity coding is poor across the NHS
New research reveals hospital datasets that show coding of ethnic groups is incomplete, with an excessive and growing proportion of patients having ethnicity recorded as “not known”, “not stated” or “other”, which impedes reliable analyses. By Sarah Scobie
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HSJ Local‘40 new hospitals’ trust puts new IT system ahead of building
An acute and community trust, which has been allocated money as part of the “40 new hospitals” programme, is prioritising buying a new electronic patient record ahead of rebuilding its estate.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Why tech hasn’t improved access to care
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by digital services correspondent Jasmine Rapson.
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NewsICS prescribes Amazon’s Alexa to patients
An integrated care system has piloted prescribing patients Amazon devices to act as digital health assistants.
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HSJ PartnersWill telehealth be the new frontline of healthcare?
Lori Prestesater shares three key factors that should be taken into consideration if healthcare providers are to continue along their trajectory towards being truly digitally driven
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HSJ PartnersMaintaining the momentum
ICSs can build on the headway made on digital during the pandemic but still need to work on some areas such as growing relationships and deciding who leads
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HSJ PartnersSecure data can help provide real integrated care
To realise the full potential of technology, ICSs will need to take a person-led approach and collect the right information in a secure and orchestrated way, writes Declan Hadley
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HSJ PartnersICSs must put the basics in place to achieve digital transformation
Technology is essential to the transformation agenda but ICSs will face several challenges as well as huge opportunities as they work towards digital maturity
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NewsDigital health service provided care without CQC registration
A digital paediatric and maternity service which says it has ‘saved the life of a child’ operated for up to seven months without a Care Quality Commission registration, it has emerged.
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NewsGPs should not switch off online consultations, NHSE says
GP practices should not switch off their online consultation systems outside of core hours as it will ‘reduce patient satisfaction’, according to NHS England.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The rebirth of care.data (sort of)
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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NewsFears digital health will be brought ‘to its knees’ by vaccine passport
Private health tech companies have told HSJ they fear they will be ‘crowded out’ by the government promoting the NHS App as the main provider of the covid-19 vaccine passport.
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HSJ LocalSupplier to ‘every NHS trust’ placed in special measures
Patients have come to avoidable harm after a large private provider failed to deliver thousands of medicine prescriptions, according to a report from the Care Quality Commission.