NHS Digital has tweaked its electronic referral system, to smoothen the process of making a hospital appointment. The e-Referral Service (e-RS) is used by primary care doctors to talk to and seek advice from secondary colleagues ahead of making a formal referral. e-RS is an… Read More »NHS Digital tweaks e-referral system to hospitals
The UK government agency NHS Digital has awarded an £8m digital system that processes coronavirus test results to healthcare software specialist X-Lab without competition. According to a tender document, the “extreme urgency brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic situation” justified the decision not to open… Read More »NHS Digital awards £8m COVID record contract to X-lab
Equity investor Gresham House has invested £5m into the NHS’s digital triage provider eConsult Health, allowing the service to expand to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. eConsult provides online consultation services to NHS primary care organisations and will use the investment to maintain its… Read More »NHS digital triage provider to expand with £5m investment
Three UK companies have combined their digital health technologies into a single remote consultation service for GP surgeries combining triage, video calls, patient messaging and treatment information. The platform combines eConsult’s digital triage tool – which was added to the NHS app a few weeks… Read More »Healthcare tech firms team up on consultation tools for GPs