Emergency departments in three hospitals across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have deployed Alcidion's Miya Emergency, digitising paper processes, saving clinical teams time, automating tasks, and providing trust-wide visibility of patient status and A&E activity.

Clinical professionals and end users were deeply involved in this complex undertaking, from the moment a decision was made to deliver a new emergency department electronic patient record.

NHS organisations will be able to save valuable time and resource in the procurement of technologies that can make a significant difference to patient experience, in the latest iteration of the government’s G-Cloud procurement framework.

Airwave Healthcare, which works with hospitals to deliver affordable and innovative technologies to help to entertain, educate and inform patients, is for the first time making its services available through the G-Cloud framework.

Clinicians working at five of the six trusts in the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) can access test results from across their pathology network, following a summer roll-out of Clinisys' ICE OpenNet.

Clinisys ICE is an order communications and results reporting system that is used extensively in NHS hospitals and GP practices.

Care homes looking to digitise their administration and care procedures have a new option with the launch of Epic Care in the UK.

Epic Care is a modular, scalable system developed by Clanwilliam that has a track record of simplifying the delivery of complex care at both residential and nursing homes across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

SPARK TSL has appointed David Hawkins as its new sales director, to support take-up of the SPARK Fusion infotainment solution by NHS trusts and health boards.

SPARK Fusion is a state-of-the-art platform that can be integrated with core IT systems using HL7 messaging to deliver efficiency-enhancing apps alongside communication, entertainment, and information services to staff and patients.

Lyn Whitfield, content director at Highland Marketing, takes a look at Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, immediate reaction, and next steps. The review calls for a "tilt towards technology" to improve productivity. But, for the moment, the funding and policy required to invest in serious change are not on the table.

Every politician needs a story to tell about the state of the country and how it got to be the way it is, so they can spin a narrative about their actions. On Thursday, Lord Darzi delivered a novella length account of the state of the NHS and how it ended up in "serious trouble."

A former national chief information officer for health and social care in England, Will Smart will join the Alcidion Group board in a global role from October. He will provide strategic insight as the company continues to support healthcare organisations in different parts of the world digitise frontline services.

During an extensive career in digital health, Smart has advised senior government ministers, has played leading roles in initiatives including the Global Digital Exemplar programme and has helped to drive technology adoption from within the health technology industry.