Soft tissue sarcomas are rare and difficult to treat, but machine-learning tools have uncovered distinct cellular communities that correlate with prognosis and immunotherapy success. Using novel machine learning tools developed at Stanford Medicine, researchers have mapped three distinct cellular configurations that correspond to clinical outcomes for patients with a rare, difficult-to-treat cancer called soft tissue […]
An oil pumpjack in a field in Grandfalls, Texas, on March 24, 2024. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Crude oil futures fell for a second day Wednesday as U.S. crude stockpiles rose. The West Texas Intermediate contract for May delivery fell 27 cents, or 0.33%, to settle at $81.35 a barrel Wednesday. The Brent contract […]
Introducing a single shared digital prescribing record across the NHS in England could avoid nearly one million drug errors every year, stopping up to 16,000 fewer patients from being harmed, and saving up to 22 lives every year, suggests a new study. The figures, which are based on the assumption that such a system could […]
The recently published Mid Mersey Interoperability Evaluation has demonstrated the significant impact that Access HSC’s integration between Rio electronic patient record (EPR) and Elemental social prescribing software have had in improving care at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has been using the Rio EPR system since 2015 and Elemental social […]
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care System’s Digitising Social Care (DiSC) programme has secured £7,500 of funding to research how to best support care homes for vulnerable residents to connect to Digital Social Care Records (DSCRs). DSCRs are a way of securely allowing health and care professionals to see relevant information in someone’s health […]
The latest learning and education strategy from NHS Education for Scotland (NES), set to run until 2026, shares a number of plans with a digital focus including updating its digital platform and holding a review of existing data architecture. Within the strategy, NES states that its purpose is to be an innovative and collaborative learning […]
Following the growing adoption of EPR systems across the country and a clear focus on NHS frontline digitisation, electronic document management plays a key role in supporting an organisation’s digital capability, providing access to unstructured information – clinical documents, medical images and patient record files. As well providing significant savings in the cost or paper […]
North West Anglia Foundation Trust has gone live with submitting inpatient and outpatient appointment, emergency department attendances and booking information data into the regional shared care record. Providers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS can now view this information through the shared care record, with North West Anglia being the first acute trust to go live. […]
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) has awarded a contract for a dental patient management software service to Newcastle-based Systems for Dentists Limited, for a reported value of 107,117.50. Set to run for five years to February 2029, the contract looks to replace previous patient management software, which was no longer supported by the software […]
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has opened a procurement opportunity on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board for a medical workforce electronic system. The procurement, valued at up to £900,000, seeks to provide a solution to support capacity and demand planning of the medical workforce including live data of staff levels, with an […]
