Improving new starter turnover: case study
NHS Employers - This case study outlines how East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust worked to improve experiences of staff in their first year of employment at the trust. The trust improved the overall on-boarding experience including starting induction before day one in the role and introducing an online portal for new starters, along with the benefits and the challenges of doing so. This work has resulted in an improvement in new starter turnover of nearly 20 per cent.Case studyNHS Employers news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 2, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
NHS financial temperature check: finance directors ’ views on financial challenges facing the NHS in England
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) -This is the seventh in the HFMA ’s series of briefings setting out finance directors’ views on the financial issues facing the NHS in England. The briefing draws on the responses of 73 finance directors of trusts and foundation trusts and chief finance officers of 100 CCGs. The NHS financial temperature check provides a nation al picture of finance directors’ views of the financial outlook and the challenges NHS finance staff are facing.BriefingInfographicHFMA - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 6, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Department of Health group accounting manual 2017 to 2018
Department of Health (DH) - This guidance is aimed at DH group bodies (including CCGs, NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and arm's length bodies) to help them complete their statutory annual reports and accounts for 2017 to 2018. GuidanceDH publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 23, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
BIOTRONIK ’s Pacemakers Get 3 Tesla MR-Conditional Approval in Europe
BIOTRONIK won European regulatory approval allowing its Edora, Evity, and Enitra series of pacemakers to be safe for 3 Tesla full body scans, as long as certain precautionary measures are taken. This approval will allow more patients to take advantage of the high quality imaging that the more powerful MRI scanners offer, as previously these implants had MR-conditional approval up to only 1.5 Tesla. Full body scanning, on the other hand, opens up scanning of the chest, heart, and other organs close to the pacemaker and its leads.
Since these are existing pacemakers and it’s getting a bit confusing which are cleared fo...
Source: Medgadget - June 14, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
The benefits of ID scanning: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
NHS Employers - This case study shares King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's experience of implementing scanning equipment and software to retrospectively check staff documentation.Case studyNHS Employers news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 9, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: New technologies Source Type: blogs
It Is Very Important To Make Sure Data Mining Patient Records Is Properly Managed.
Here is a saga that has just started to unwind and be revealed.http://uk.businessinsider.com/deepmind-royal-free-london-nhs-deal-inexcusable-mistakes-2017-3?r=US&IR=TDeepMind's first deal with the NHS has been torn apart in a new academic studySam SheadMar. 16, 2017, 8:07 AM A data-sharing deal between Google DeepMind and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust was riddled with "inexcusable" mistakes, according to an academic paper published on Thursday.The "Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms" paper — coauthored by Cambridge University's Julia Powles and The Economist's Hal Hodson — questions...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 21, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 11th March, 2017.
Here are a few I came across last week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----https://www.digitalhealth.net/2017/03/will-artificial-intelligence-change-radiology/How will artificial intelligence change radiology?Artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is being heralded as the brave new frontier of clinical IT, Kim Thomas reports on how it is already beginning to reshape radiology imaging and diagnostics.Jon HoeksmaEditor, Digital ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
This Mini MRI is Adorable and Improving Neonatal Care
Who knew MRIs could be cute? Researchers from the University of Sheffield, GE Healthcare, NHS Foundation Trust, the Sheffield Teaching Hospital, and the Wellcome Trust collaborated to bring us a miniature FMI scanner for newborns. The scanner is only one of two in existence, and was recently installed at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital ’s Jessop Wing in South Yorkshire, England. The other is stationed at Boston Children’s Hospital but is not in use. Around the size of awashing machine, the scanner is apart of an initiative to diagnose brain abnormalities and other birth complications in newborns, in particular preemi...
Source: radRounds - February 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
The field of medical AI is buzzing. More and more companies set the purpose to disrupt healthcare with the help of artificial intelligence. Here, I collected the biggest names currently on the market ranging from start-ups to tech giants to keep an eye on in the future.
Artificial Intelligence has to and will redesign healthcare
No one doubts that artificial intelligence has unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. Although many have their fears and doubts about AI taking over the world, Stephen Hawking even said that the development of full ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Healthcare Design AI big data digital health drug development GC1 genetics healthcare companies Innovation medical imaging Personalized medicine pharma Source Type: blogs
Consultation on use of resources and well-led assessments
NHS Improvement -This consultation contains proposals for how NHS trusts and foundation trusts can make effective use of resources, leadership and governance enabling them to provide sustainable high quality services for patients. The deadline for responses is 14 February 2017.ConsultationOnline response formNHS Improvement - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 22, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Consultations Leadership and leadership development Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
NHS reference costs 2015 to 2016
Department of Health (DH) - This document provides the most up-to-date information about how NHS expenditure was used to provide health care by NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts. Reference costs are the unit costs to the NHS for providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients in England.Reference costsAssociated documentation (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 15, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
What if the NHS had to balance its books like local government?
The King's Fund -The NHS if is a collection of essays that explores hypothetical scenarios and their impact on the future of health and care. Our aim is to encourage new thinking and debate about possible future scenarios that could fundamentally change health and care. This essay by Lord Kerslake, Chair of King ’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and President of the Local Government Association, argues that there would be benefits if the NHS had to balance its books in the same way as local government.Read it nowThe NHS if... collection of essays (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 29, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Financial sustainability of the NHS
National Audit Office -In 2015-16, NHS commissioners, NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts reported a combined deficit of £1.85 billion, a greater than three-fold in crease in the deficit position of £574 million reported in 2014-15. According to this report, the financial performance of NHS bodies worsened considerably in 2015-16 and this trend is not sustainable.ReportSummary reportNational Audit Office - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 21, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme 2016 to 2017: guidance on the application of the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme
Department of Health -This guidance is primarily for NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts who provide treatment for injuries whose costs are recoverable under the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme (ICR). It sets out the circumstances where costs can be recovered and the process under which this is undertaken, as well as giving some guidance on how ICR payments should be recorded in annual accounts.GuidanceDepartment of Health - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 1, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Why Aren ’ t Google And Apple Saving Healthcare?
Tech companies could change healthcare with their knowledge about disruption and could lead the way to medical innovation. Why isn’t that happening already?
It is a fact that healthcare is unsustainable. American health spending will reach nearly $5 trillion, or 20 percent of gross domestic product by 2021. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there is a worldwide shortage of around 4.3 million physicians, nurses, and allied health workers. So how could we change it?
The most likely solution is technology. The introduction of artificial intelligence, robotics, social media, various sensors and wearables i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 6, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine gc4 Source Type: blogs
