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BJ-HC spoke to representatives from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its charity, CW+, about digital health innovation success and the importance of frontline clinician support

The government is investing £4.2bn to support the adoption of digital technology across the NHS over the five years up to 2020, but how much of that is going into strengthening cyber defence capabilities?

 The Reform think-tank is urging the NHS to follow a series of practical steps from a new report looking at AI in healthcare in order to ensure the system maximises the potential of this technology to ‘narrow’ some of the gaps in health provision.

New figures from HIMSS Analytics reveal that around 200 hospitals from Europe and Latin America were validated at Stage 6 and 7 of the EMRAM last year.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will invest in developing its EHR solution, with a roadmap to be published towards the end of January.

BJ-HC spoke to Kate Warriner, Healthy Liverpool Digital Lead, Royal Liverpool GDE Programme Director, NHS Liverpool CCG, at the recent King’s Fund event in Leeds on sharing health and care records.

Global digital exemplar launches new app to improve the experience of children in hospital.

The trust will initially be looking to deploy a ‘fully integrated’ Patient Administration System (PAS), Maternity, Renal and Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA).

The UK government will invest £75m into delivering recommendations from an independent review on AI, released earlier this year.

As the Public Accounts Committee says the NHS is not ‘well placed to learn from its mistakes’, we take a look at improvements in developing an open and transparent culture across the system.