How Nursing Informatics Leaders Can Help Make a Digital NHS a Reality
Technology is becoming more important to clinical practice, not just as a management reporting tool, but as an instrument to change the way we deliver care for the better. The government's ambitions are clear - Simon Stevens, NHS England's CEO is calling for technology to help "drive down variations in quality and safety of care" and reduce instances of avoidable patient harm in his Five Year Forward View.
Virtualware Health today announced the release of VirtualRehab 3.0, the first clinically validated therapeutic video game solution for Hand & Body therapy with CE approval. Designed for professional therapists who work with patients that suffer from severe neurological conditions, VirtualRehab 3.0 will help patients to improve balance and fine motor skills using clinically tested therapeutic games and motion capture technology powered by Microsoft's® Kinect Xbox One and Leap Motion®.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) and NantHealth today announced a strategic partnership with the aim of delivering and transforming cancer services using the most advanced molecular genomic and proteomic diagnostics, treatment decision support and unique IT integration capabilities for better informed precision treatment selection and care coordination.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have announced they are partnering with global software provider Orion Health to deliver a person-centric electronic record that will provide health and social care professionals across parts of south east London with information at the point of care, enabling better, faster, and more informed clinical and care related decisions.
Agfa HealthCare announces today that Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry has chosen its Enterprise Imaging unified management platform, as well as the XERO Viewer, which will allow sharing of images throughout the hospital and beyond.
Creating rapid, secure access to imaging data by on-site and off-site users is a major goal of informatics professionals attending the SIIM (Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine) conference held this year from May 28-30.