The six NHS health boards across the North of Scotland have gone live with a joint electronic medicines management platform to enhance clinical decision-making and reduce the risk of errors. The first ever multi-locality deployment of System C's pharmacy stock control (PSC) and hospital electronic prescribing medicines administration (HEPMA) systems will benefit over 25,000 staff across 66 hospitals and 5,163 beds.

A systemic cause of patient harm could be better avoided with the help of technology, following the launch of Miya Results Tracking by health tech company Alcidion.

The new digital solution is designed to reduce the risk of test results not being followed up. It has been built to help healthcare professionals in hospital settings to more easily visualise, prioritise and acknowledge high volumes of tests results generated for patients every day, and to take appropriate action in a timely manner.

Bayer moves ahead with advancements across its comprehensive Radiology portfolio as well as expanded offering in its digital business and services. The company announced that new clinical and pre-clinical data for gadoquatrane, Bayer's novel investigational macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent currently in Phase III clinical development, will be presented at the 2024 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) - taking place from February 28 to March 3, 2024, in Vienna, Austria.

Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (MSE ICS) is working with Orion Health on a shared care record that will help it to address some of the most pressing health and social care issues faced by its population.

To support the development of the shared care record, the ICS and Orion Health are adopting an innovative strategy that focuses on solving real-world problems.

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, announced it will introduce its latest differentiating, AI-enabled innovations to improve patient care at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) annual meeting in Vienna. By leveraging AI, these new technologies can help healthcare professionals make more accurate diagnoses, streamline workflows, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

The trust's Oldham laboratory has completed technical go-live, with its Salford site also set to follow. Collectively the laboratories provide a wide range of general and specialist pathology services that support diagnoses for patients in the region. This includes one of the largest dermatology departments in the country, and gynaecology services that cover six hospitals.

Opinion Article by Mark Hindle, vice president EMEA, Orion Health,.
It's going to be a busy year in the shared care records space. NHS leaders, ShCRs and their suppliers are going to have plenty of work in hand to drive adoption, improve maturity, share data across boundaries, and start thinking about how to extend the use of ShCR information to system leaders and patients.