Widespread adoption of digital health could save NHS 7.5bn

Research by Now Healthcare Group indicates huge savings through use of telehealth/digital consultations

picture of Digital consultations have the potential to save billions and improve the patient experience

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Better bed management could save NHS trusts £7m a year

Neil Griffiths of TeleTracking UK reveals how automated bed management solutions could save every NHS trust millions of ...

Medtech start-up announces $7m in funding

Medbelle’s end-to-end platform for medical to accelerate the digitisation of the patient journey

Launch of best practice standards for telehealth and connected health technologies

Philips presents results from three-year telehealth programme impacting over 100,000 patients

The role of biometrics in healthcare

David Orme of IDEX Biometrics explores the current limitations and security vulnerabilities within the UK healthcare ...

Could failure of NHS IT systems have contributed to 13-year-old's death?

Health Secretary highlights coroner's ruling that 'lack of co-ordinating record' was a factor in death of teenage ...

Specialist unit will lead NHS digital revolution

Health Secretary announces the finest minds in healthcare IT will come together to drive innovation and improvement ...

IP nurse call, trunking and service columns installed at Queen Elizabeth Hospital inShare

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham dubbed the UK’s first super hospital, the £545 million Queen Elizabeth Hospital ...

Patient data at risk from healthcare apps, researchers claim

New paper published in the British Medical Journal reveals healthcare app developers routinely share private patient ...

NHS technology leaders lack skills needed for innovation, study shows

SolarWinds’ annual IT Trends Report reveals Cloud First policy is being adopted more extensively, but 71% of public- ...

Comment: The real benefits of healthtech – releasing time to care

Professor Michael Thick, chief medical officer and chief clinical information officer at IMS MAXIMS, argues that ...

Banishing medication errors in secondary care

New report released to promote best practice standards of care for the management of medication across secondary care

Comment: Clinical partnerships - a lifeline for the NHS?

Bernard Ross of Sky Medical Technology reveals that clinical partnerships between the NHS and medical device developers ...

Innovate UK backs open source SME to drive new approach to NHS digital health

OpusVL consortium awarded record £790,000 grant to research and implement a new digital electronic observation ...

Sharing the load: The role of specialist finance in NHS shared services

Penny Pinnock, sales manager for healthcare and public sector at Siemens Financial Services (SFS), explains how ...

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