Sonia Patel (
@chat2sonia
) has been named the new Chief Information Officer for
@NHSX
Patel is currently joint CIO at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust and will take up her new role in the summer
Our first report from
@DHRewired
is up - Dr Ben Goldacre argues data analytics in healthcare is broken and mistakenly focused on academic pursuit rather than actionable insight
#DHRewired19
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has become the first European hospital to achieve the HIMSS Stage7 international digital maturity benchmark.
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Fantastic news for
@AlderHey
as it becomes the first paediatric hospital in Europe to be awarded EMRAM Stage 7 from HIMSS. Congrats to
@idigitalnhs
🎉
Full story 👉
Rachel Dunscombe has joined Visionable as chief technology officer to lead its platform strategy at a pivotal time for the video consultation software market.
Full story here 👉
A poll of CIOs and CCIOs, who are members on the Digital Health Networks professional community, revealed some 59% of NHS IT leaders say that top digital leadership roles should require certification.
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🚨 NEWLY ELECTED ADVISORY PANELS 🚨
The results of the Digital Health Networks Advisory Panel elections are in and the new
@DHCCIO
,
@HealthCION
and
@DHCNIO
Advisory Panel members can now be exclusively revealed.
Find out here 👉
Northern Ireland’s ECR is deemed ‘the single most useful IT advance in healthcare’ - what were key benefits within five years of deployment? Find out in the
@OrionHealthEMEA
case study:
This week sadly sees the retirement of
@CompareSoftware
- his friend and colleague
@DMckennaTweets
has written a piece where he recalls some key moments in Joe’s time as CCIO at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT.
Read the story here -
Health secretary Matt Hancock has reiterated the need to digitally up-skill the NHS workforce to prepare them for the future, saying there's "no excuse" for NHS organisations not to have a digital and tech leader on every board
After a somewhat brief absence, our profile series is back with a bang. First up, we have Andy Webster,
#CCIO
at
@LeedsHospitals
. Andy talks about advice he would give fellow
#NHS
CCIOs and who he would invite round for dinner.
Read it here 👉
A first-of-its-kind independent study linking care home data to NHS records has proven that remote monitoring of care home residents can significantly reduce the number of unplanned hospital admissions, consequently saving costs for the NHS.
Full story 👉
.
@AlderHey
has launched its first start-up accelerator programme to give tech start-ups the chance to trial their initiatives in the hospital.
Full story here 👉
Approved developers of digital health and care services can now integrate NHS login into their products after a new toolkit launched by
@NHSDigital
Full story here -
Digital Health News has been given an exclusive peek at a speech
@MattHancock
is delivering later today. In it the health secretary reveals his vision for
#NHSX
- including what the X actually stands for
📣
#CNIO
Advisory Panel elections are now open
Choose the next members of the new
#CNIO
Advisory Panel who will be the voice of the
#CNIO
community and will represent you nationally.
👉Vote here:
NHS organisations are set to gain access to Microsoft 365 tools in a landmark deal with the technology company. NHS Digital said it's expected to save the health service hundreds of millions of pounds.
Read more here:
🚨 DIGITAL HEALTH EXCLUSIVE ALERT 🚨
We can reveal the 24 trusts which have been selected in the first wave of the newly announced Digital Aspirant programme.
Find out here 👉
Natasha Phillips (
@NatashaRoseP
), chief nursing information officer at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been named the CNIO for
@NHSX
Documents, seen by The BMJ, have revealed immunity passports are to form part of the governments new plans to ramp up testing.
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A care home in Cumbria has been using Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 technology to allow clinically vulnerable residents to be seen by their GPs without leaving their home.
Full story 👉
The chief executive of
@NHSDigital
has said some healthcare technology which has been rolled out at scale in response to the Covid-19 outbreak is “here to stay” but there will be some processes which will need to be reviewed.
Read our story here -
The vice president and general manager of
@Oracle
@CernerUK
,
@DistieProfit
, has told Digital Health News that the NHS should never treat the implementation of electronic patient records (EPRs) as IT projects.
Full story 👉
Sunderland Royal Hospital has become the first in the north of England to be awarded Level 7 status from the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS).
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The Christie has signed a two-year contract with UK consultancy Avenue3 to build and deploy its Patient Engagement Platform and E-Referral solutions, underpinned by openEHR technology, making it the first trust in England to do so.
Full story 👉
Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust (
@GSTTnhs
) has delayed the implementation of its new £450 million electronic patient record (EPR) to allow more time to launch the system safely.
Full story 👉
The London Care Record has saved health and care professionals’ time up to a value of £44.4 million, helping them provide safe and effective care more quickly, according to an independent economic evaluation published by OneLondon today.
Full story 👉
More needs to be done to close the digital skills gap amongst NHS staff, and the lack of digital know-how could be hampering efforts to transform healthcare, new research has revealed.
Full story 👉
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest, has selected
@nervecentrehq
's next-generation EPR to drive forward its digital capabilities and improve patient care in what the company called a transformative deal.
Full story 👉
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Matt Hancock announces second wave of Digital Aspirants at Digital Health Rewired
@DHRewired
Thirty-two trusts will receive funding to boost their digital maturity.
Read more here:
Cerner is supplying its electronic patient record software to NHS Nightingale, the temporary ICU hospital being run by Barts Health NHS Trust at London ExCel to treat coronavirus patients.
Full story here 👉
New planning guidance states NHSX, along with NHS England and NHS Improvement, will be exploring what the level of funding should be in order to achieve full use of digital technology in the NHS by 2024.
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The outgoing CEO at
@NHSDigital
@simonrbolton
has told the Health and Social Care Committee that recruiting people and getting the right digital skills into the NHS is his “biggest challenge”.
Full story 👉
On train from KX up to Leeds getting ready for
#dhss19
the Digital Health Summer Schools 18-19 July where we’re expecting about 500 current and future NHS IT leaders for two days of networking, collaboration and best practice exchange
🚨FRAMEWORK ALERT🚨
@NHSX
has published new guidance outlining how NHS organisation should be driving digital transformation and what success looks like.
Full story here 👉
It's a big day for NHS IT today as
@nhsx
officially launches. We've got a number of pieces on the site this morning including an interview with CEO
@matthewsgould
who spoke to Digital Health News about money, GDEs and touring the country
🚨 Voting open 🚨
Voting opens today for elections to Digital Health’s three professional advisory panels, which represent Digital Health Networks, a professional community of more than 7,000 NHS IT leaders.
Full story 👉
CIO David Walliker has said the blueprints had the potential to bridge the gap between knowledge silos in the NHS, but only if they’re utilised by other trusts
The government has mandated that all trusts across England should adopt barcode scanning of high-risk medical devices by March 2024 to digitally transform the NHS and ensure its long-term sustainability.
Full story 👉
Big news this morning - Beverley Bryant is leaving
@System_C
to take up a board position as chief digital information officer at
@GSTTnhs
and
@KingsCollegeNHS
New
@digitalhealth2
digital responses to
#Covid
-19 weekly webinar series launches this Friday
Register 👉
Tomorrow
@VMware
&
@wifispark
will detail how they are working with
#NHS
organisations to enable them to very rapidly mobile-enable their staff
An NHS stamp of approval is the most important factor for clinicians when recommending digital health solutions, new research has found.
Read more here -
ICYMI - Digital Health spoke to
@NHSDigital
's chief nurse
@JoD1905
about the clinical informatics and what advice she would give to digital nurses.
Read the interview 👉
Get the inside track on key initiatives at one of the most digitally mature teaching hospitals in the
#NHS
. Book now for
@DHSummerSchools
to visit GDE
@uhbtrust
: Spaces limited.
#DHSS18
A US ‘digital doctor’ has said he believes the world is about to enter ‘a golden era’ of health IT which will lead to better care for patients.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has become the first European hospital to achieve the HIMSS Stage7 international digital maturity benchmark.
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Former NHS chief clinical information officer, Dr Simon Eccles said that people seeking digital roles in the NHS face a “career rockface” because there is no clear pathway.
Full story 👉
The Digital Health Networks have sent an open letter to Matthew Gould and Dr Simon Eccles on the steps needed to get CCIOs and CIOs on NHS boards.
Full story here -
Prof Joe McDonald said key lessons from NPfIT had not been learned and it remained difficult for local NHS IT leaders to have honest conversations with the centre
Personal child health records are set to be digitised earlier than planned under government plans to give families greater access to their children’s data.
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Patient safety must be central to the design, development, and rollout of electronic patient record systems, a report from Patient Safety Learning has stated.
Full story 👉
Health app evaluation organisation
@OrchaUK
evaluated more than 5,000 apps against 260 performance and compliance factors and found that majority do not meet the minimum safety requirements
The finalists of the Digital Health Awards have been revealed 👀 and you can find out who won at
@DHLeadersSummit
next month.
Find out who our finalists are below 👇
The new NHS mandate prioritises electronic health record (EHR) targets, development and delivery of the federated data platform (FDP) and transformation of the NHS app in an effort to help recovery and improve the working of the NHS.
Full story👉
Prime Minister announces extra £20 billion a year in funding annually for the NHS and argued technology must be a crucial part of driving productivity improvements over the next decade