Getting the interoperability care puzzle right
The integration of health and social care in Scotland, as in the rest of the United Kingdom, has been long talked about but scarcely accomplished in any real sense. However,…
NHS Scotland awards contract to scale up remote patient monitoring
NHS Scotland has awarded a contract to a provider of virtual healthcare in the UK to support the scaling up and mainstreaming of remote monitoring services across the country. Under…
Users will be at heart of new ‘digital front door’ to healthcare services in Scotland
Citizen engagement will be key in the development of a ‘digital front door’ to health and care services in Scotland, according to a government health technology leader. A new streamlined…
EIDO Healthcare: The proven experts in informed consent solutions for over 20 years
At EIDO Healthcare we are committed to helping our customers achieve excellence in the vital areas of informed consent and clinical governance. We provide medico-legally sound patient information and digital…
First smartphone-based ECG recommended by public health body
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued medical technologies guidance 64 (MTG64) recommending KardiaMobile as an option for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF). This is for people…
Informed consent and clinical governance in the digital age
At EIDO Healthcare we are committed to helping our customers achieve excellence in the vital areas of informed consent and clinical governance. We provide medico-legally sound patient information and digital solutions…
NHS Scotland CEO: ‘Digital approaches are vital to our recovery’
The last two years have been the most challenging that the NHS in Scotland has ever lived through. I am enormously proud of the way in which staff across our…
NHS Scotland ‘cannot afford’ to slow down digitisation, says tech boss
NHS Scotland “cannot afford to drop the pace” of digital transformation as it emerges from the pandemic, according to a former health tech boss. Deryck Mitchelson, who stepped down from his role…
Ministers urged to scrap Covid app relaunch over low usage rates
Ministers have been urged to scrap plans to relaunch Scotland’s “failing” contact tracing app as it emerged fewer than two in 10 people are using it properly. Despite new data…
Digital system to spot when hospital patients are getting sicker completes successful trial
A digital system that automatically alerts clinical staff when patients are becoming unwell has been successfully tested as part of plans for a new hospital in Lanarkshire. The Patientrack digital…