Digital Health Intelligence's latest snapshot report dissects the £68m opportunity in the NHS electronic bed and capacity management systems market segment. Digital Health News exclusively reported that NHS England was moving forward plans for a £68 million programme of investment in eBCMS as part of a series of measures to tackle spiralling waiting lists, now exceeding 7.5m. The snapshot report details how investment will be focused on the 15 trusts that are the worst performers on A&E waits and transfers, and divided into three categories. Trusts targeted for new systems, those targetted for optimisation of current ones; and finally hybrid approaches. The aim is to start to deliver initial improvements by the end of 2023-24 financial year. Funding is over three years. The snapshot report analyses the 15 trusts targeted for investment, including for the first time details of their NHS England Digital Maturity Assessment score and current systems used. The report details th
A new snapshot survey of Integrated Care System digital leaders has identified Shared Health and Care Records as their highest digital priority, followed by health provider digitisation. When asked to rank the highest local digital priority the top score was given to 'levelling up lower digital maturity organisations' with second spot given to 'convergence on acute EPRs across the ICS'. When asked what the impact of deep cuts to budgets will have on local ICS digital plans, 25% of respondents said it would have a big impact and 69% said it would have a significant impact. Asked about digital leadership appointed locally, an impressive 69% said that they had appointed a chief digital information officer; while half had appointed a CCIO; but none had yet appointed a CNIO. The small-scale survey suggests there may be a serious under-representation of nursing digital leaders within ICSs. The survey was undertaken by Digital Health on behalf of the ICS Digital Council, a
Virtual ward technology provider Doccla has acquired medically certified cloud-based platform OpenTeleHealth (OTH) in a transaction that expands Doccla's global presence, and extends its operations to 12 new markets, supporting co-founder and CEO Dag Larsson's claim that the company is now Europe's "leading virtual hospital". Since its founding in 2019, Doccla has rapidly become a leading virtual ward provider to the NHS and is now present within dozens of NHS trusts, and in one in three integrated care boards (ICBs). The acquisition means Doccla now has clients in 13 countries (10 in Europe), with almost 10,000 patients under active monitoring. Outside of Europe, Doccla is now present in Singapore, also through the acquisition. It is a significant step for Doccla and marks the point at which the company progresses to become Europe's virtual hospital. Notably, Doccla will immediately work with existing OTH clients, which include Siemens Healthineers in Sca
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