24/7 text messaging services launched to support those in crisis

The Shout helpline operates 24/7 and connects people in need – those feeling suicidal or suffering a mental health crisis
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Barnsley Hospital develops digital whiteboard for patient information

The ProWard system was developed in-house by the hospitals information team and aims to provide a single point of access
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NHS Grampian ditches pagers for faster mobile messaging service

Staff at NHS Grampian are now able to communicate vital patient information within seconds rather than wasting time trying to
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Tameside and Glossop employ Civica’s cloud-based solutions

The software company’s CostMaster cloud solution will provide the trust with a clearer view of its cost data to better
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Imprivata partners with Microsoft for cloud-based platforms

The Identity and Access Management cloud platform will be used to address challenges that healthcare customers face with digital solutions.
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£22m competition launched to set up ‘Digital Innovation Hubs’

Part of a £37.5 million funding programme launched last year, the innovation hubs will give UK scientists and clinicians access
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GP at Hand makes “destabilising” move to become primary care network

The NHS funded GP app, which launched in 2017, told Digital Health it was “well placed” to become a primary
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Technology ‘part of the jigsaw’ to bolster GP numbers, Royal College says

Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said recent financial commitments for technology would help keep the
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Four medical students share in new digital health technology bursary

The bursary is a joint initiative between BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and DRIVE, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s new
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Digital health hub to be scaled up across England after successful pilot

After its successful pilot in Nailsea, Somerset, it’s to be expanded in North West London, the Wirral, Blackburn, Middlesbrough and
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