Digitising Continuing Healthcare from Hospital to Home
Digitising paper and automating the workflow around the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Assessment process promises to help reduce Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC); improve the quality…
Technology Insight
Integration is Everything: Why Joined Up Care Requires Joined Up Systems
Hicom’s Mark Vizard outlines why integrating diverse datasets is key to effective pathway design. But in the rush for a ‘single version of the truth’,…
Nervecentre Launch Next Generation EPR Designed by Clinicians for Clinicians
Nervecentre Software has called for a radical new approach to NHS digitisation with the launch of its Next Generation EPR The platform – the first…
Diabetes Tech to be a Key Focus of DPC2018
“The time to be technology laggards is over,” says Dr Partha Kar, DPC2018 keynote speaker and National Associate Clinical Director Diabetes, NHS England, in his…
World’s First Hand-held Infrared Devices for COPD & Other Conditions
A hand-held device that would give early warning of ‘acute events’, and so avoid the hospitalisation of thousands of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
How Robots are Changing Community Pharmacy
Reports suggest that nearly 70 per cent of community pharmacies in Denmark use automated or robotic dispensing technology. This figure drops to between 30 to…
How Digital Health Is Taking the Industry by Storm
We’ve digitized calling a cab, getting our groceries and communicating with friends, so it’s only a matter of time before we totally digitize health, too….
The Shifting Power in Diabetes Management: The Products Behind the Progress
Diabetes is unrivaled amongst modern health issues. The World Health Organisation reports that there are 422 million adults living with diabetes in 2017, and the number is…
The Vision of ‘Smart Ambulances’ goes Hand-in-Hand with a Data-Empowered Paramedic
By Graham Murphy, BU Leader of RDT – a Philips Company The healthcare sector is in the midst of a technology revolution. The NHS has…
Automated Care Pathways for Surgery and Procedure Patients
By Jussi Määtä, CEO & Founder of Buddycare The higher the patient’s knowledge about the surgery is, the higher self-caring abilities the patient has, resulting…