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This week, Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, announced that from 2020 all fax machines in the NHS will be phased out, with a ban in place to stop Trusts purchasing them from January 2019. NHS organisations will need to demonstrate the use of secure email...

In his first speech, the new secretary of state for Health, Matt Hancock, has indicated that a further £75 million will be available for Trusts in order to help them put in place state-of-the-art electronic systems - allowing them to save money, crucially giving...

It makes sense to give clinicians the most complete possible access to patient data, test results, past visits, diagnoses, history and more. However, even the most up-to-date electronic medical record (EMR) system have holes that clinicians struggle to fill. That...

Despite the continued march of technology into healthcare, referenceable patient information remains the diagnostic gold standard of the care process. Giving clinicians the information they need and helping them to fully understand their patients and bring better...

The economic and social cost of mental illnesses to the economy is estimated at £105 billion a year – roughly the cost of the entire NHS. Much like every other part of our health service, efficiencies will have to be found if we are to continue to improve mental...

According to NHS England’s Data Security and Protection Requirements trusts must “remove, replace or actively migrate or manage the risks associated with unsupported systems by April 2018.” Before they can get rid of outdated operation systems, trusts must tackle the...

For a hospital’s emergency department (ED), a patient’s history remains the gold standard for care, often providing the surest path to diagnosis. However, in an ED environment, where patients include those suffering from dementia and other mental illnesses, the...