Record breaking waiting lists and staff shortages are causing NHS staff burnout. Digital solutions like remote monitoring are helping improve patient care and clinical outcomes. Are you curious to learn about the benefits of virtual wards and hear from pioneers ready to share their best practices? Then join us at LMDC23! The Luscii Medical Developer […]
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a statement on patient-related documentation to state they “are working quickly to review documents from our electronic records” that may not have been sent to GPs. In the statement it notes that following correspondence from the Care Quality Commission in mid-September, the trust “identified a […]
Content by Jeff Ball, chief growth officer, Lumeon. It has been said that, to a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. In healthcare IT, electronic patient records (EPR) systems have assumed the role of the hammer. And as more money is poured into such systems – £2 billion to digitise the NHS, including electronic […]
By Open Medical. There are a few fundamentals for effective clinical processes, and an electronic patient record (EPR) is one of them. But what do EPRs actually bring to the table, and is it enough? Conversation with Mr Krisztian Deierl, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and orthopaedic trauma lead at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (WHTH), […]
An NHS Trust that has pioneered the use of robotic-assisted surgery in the UK has become the first to complete 10,000 cases using the da Vinci Surgical System. Guy’s and St Thomas’ installed its first da Vinci system in 2004 and is now home to the largest robotic surgery programme in the country. Over the […]
More than half a million people in the UK have made organ donation decisions via NHS app, new figures show. The total number of organ donation decisions registered for the first time through the NHS app has increased by over a fifth over the last year to 546,825 (up 22% from 448,562 last August). The […]
eVTOL developer Joby Aviation is starting to make good on a massive contract signed with the US Department of Defense this year. The company is not only celebrating its delivery of Joby aircraft to the US Air Force, but it is also claiming to be the first company to deliver an all-electric air taxi to […]
Four months after announcing plans to bring its rental EV delivery service over from Europe to the US, Vay has hired its first teledriver – the first of many who will soon be remotely operating EVs throughout the country without a human physically present. Vay is a German teledriving rideshare company originally based in Berlin […]
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While technology has continued to revolutionize healthcare — from advanced imaging to genetic analysis — it has also, in the minds of many providers, dehumanized it. The foremost culprit is the electronic health record. As valuable as it is in so many ways, providers believe the EHR takes time and attention away from their patients […]
