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Electronic observations – how safe is it?
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An honest account from a junior doctor on moving from paper to electronic observation charts and why user testing should be done before rolling it out in hospitals.- Posted
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Content ArticleHealthcare is advancing at a quicker rate than ever before. With the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), you can now get a cancerous mole diagnosed with a mobile device. The reliance on technology has never so great. With technology predicted to replace as much as 80 per cent of a physician’s everyday routine, we must question what the new threats posed to patient safety are? This article, written by CFC Underwriting, explains some of the pitfalls of the new technology. CFC is a specialist insurance provider.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published in association with The Beryl Institute. PXJ is committed to disseminating rigorous knowledge and expanding the global conversation on evidence and innovation on patient experience. Grounded in their core principles, PXJ engages all perspectives, with a strong commitment to patients included.
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Content ArticleFor the past two years, Scalpel Ltd have been building technologies that improve patient safety in surgery. We have found a lack of understanding of why we need to invest in patient safety. In this blog I discuss surgical errors and the urgent need to invest in patient safety.
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An introduction to NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety Team
HannahMcCann posted an article in NHS Digital
We are NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety team and I’d like to tell you more about who we are, what we do and why we do it.- Posted
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NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety team – Our day to day work
HannahMcCann posted an article in NHS Digital
On a day to day basis, the NHS Digital Clinical Safety team are involved in several wide-ranging and very different projects. As you know, clinical safety should be part of everything the NHS do. Every project, every programme, every deployment. Clinical safety should be considered, understood and implemented to the highest calibre. So as you can imagine, we are a busy team. For those manufacturers with systems in use, we deal with live incidents, upgrades, further geographical or functionality deployments. For those creating new systems we are supporting them in their clinical risk management process, running hazard workshops, creating hazard logs and writing the supporting documentation. We are constantly reviewing and peer reviewing, assessing compliance and marking against the standard requirements. We assist suppliers and health organisations to self-audit their compliance against the standards so they may improve their clinical safety position. We are assessing new and emerging apps and mobile health solutions to ensure they are going through the same standard of assessment as the traditional computer-based systems and we are providing representation across the NHS to ensure clinical safety remains paramount to the work being done. One of the biggest branches of our role is training delivery. We know first-hand the importance of having a team that are educated and confident in clinical risk management.- Posted
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Drugs.com: UK medication database
Claire Cox posted an article in Medicine management
Drugs.com is the largest, most widely visited, independent medicine information website available on the internet. Their aim is to be the internet’s most trusted resource for drug and related health information. They are trying to achieve this aim by presenting independent, objective, comprehensive and up-to-date information in a clear and concise format for both consumers and healthcare professionals.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe use of health technology has grown exponentially in the past few decades, and the proliferation and complexity of this technology has led to new risks to patient safety. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) discussed this issue in their report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, and concluded that achieving better health care requires “a robust infrastructure that supports learning and improving the safety of health IT.”
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Content ArticlePressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to encourage prevention and treatment. The US-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality created On-time pressure ulcer healing to help nursing homes with electronic medical records address pressure ulcers that are slow to heal.
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Content ArticleThis article describes the qualitative methodology developed for use in CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System), the confidential database set up for the UK railways by the University of Strathclyde. CIRAS is a project in which qualitative safety data are disidentified and then stored and analysed in a central database. Due to the confidential nature of the data provided, conventional (positivist) methods of checking their accuracy are not applicable; therefore a new methodology was developed – the Applied Hermeneutic Methodology (AHM). Based on Paul Ricoeur’s ‘hermeneutic arc’, this methodology uses appropriate computer software to provide a method of analysis that can be shown to be reliable (in the sense that consensus in interpretations between different interpreters can be demonstrated). Moreover, given that the classifiers of the textual elements can be represented in numeric form, AHM crosses the ‘qualitative–quantitative divide’. It is suggested that this methodology is more rigorous and philosophically coherent than existing methodologies and that it has implications for all areas of the health and social sciences where qualitative texts are analysed.
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Content ArticleLiverpool is leading the way in the use of smartphone technology to deliver and monitor care in people’s homes. The city is the first to introduce a digital system with almost all domiciliary care providers – giving instant information about 9,000 vulnerable residents to their families and professionals. The use of an app allows care providers and families to see when a visit is carried out by a carer, for how long and how the person responded.The effect is better informed families and care managers and improved care. Liverpool is the only authority in Europe to be using the technology across its city, with all but one of its 18 domiciliary care providers using everyLIFE PASSsystem. It was made possible through a grant of one million Euros of European Union funding secured through the EU STOPandGO programme of which the Innovation Agency, the Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast was a key partner.
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Content ArticleUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), IBSL (UK) Limited and Santa Lucia Pharma Apps SrL (SLPA), with support from EMAHSN and Loughborough University, have deployed a unit dose closed loop medicines management solution in four wards at UHL and undertaken an 18-month evaluation of the project (OptiMed-ID) in preparation for a Trust-wide rollout.
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Content ArticleNationally, it is estimated that nearly 1.4 million people in the UK are affected by atrial fibrillation (AF), and a quarter of these people are unaware that they have AF. AF causes an irregular or abnormally fast heart rate. It increases the risk of stroke by up to five times, with about 12,500 strokes per year directly attributed to AF. Recognising and receiving proper treatment for AF is important because the strokes due to AF are often more severe, with a survival rate of only 50 per cent and a risk of increased disability among those who do survive, compared to those who have a non-AF related stroke. At the age of 40, we all have a one in four lifetime risk of developing AF. Eleven AHSNs have contributed to the detection of 365 patients with undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, in one year. This means that the equivalent of one stroke per day has been prevented by this work, saving lives, reducing disability, and saving almost £8.5 million to the NHS and social care.
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Content ArticleRhidian Bramley is a consultant radiologist and associate medical director at the Christie NHS FoundationTrust. In this blog he discusses how unintended consequences from implementation of digital solutions can have an impact on patient safety.
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Information Commissioners Officer: guidance on GDPR
Claire Cox posted an article in GDPR
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) gives guidance on how to handle information about people's healthcare and medical affairs.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis joint statement from the Health Research Authority and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, supported and endorsed by the Devolved Administrations, sets out the legal and ethical requirements for seeking and documenting consent using electronic methods. This statement is aimed at electronic signatures obtained for clinical trials.
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Content ArticleInformation on when software applications are considered to be a medical device and how they are regulated written by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
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Content ArticleThis policy from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sets out their vision for digital, data and technology in health and care.
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NHS Digital - Internet First policy and guidance
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Digital
This is the Internet First policy, standards and guidelines defined by NHS Digital. The document will help health and social care organisations make their digital services accessible over the internet. It describes how to make them secure, scalable and, where possible, consistent.- Posted
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Video: Introduction to the clinical safety team at NHS Digital
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Digital
The clinical safety team at NHS Digital provide clinical safety assurance service across the whole of NHS Digital's work and to the wider health and social care service in England. They ensure that the health IT used by care professionals is safe and that organisations have met mandatory clinical safety standards.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis review by Van Velthoven et al, published in BMJ Open, provides a systematic overview of standards for the development of health apps based on those for software of medical devices and clinical information systems.
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NHS Test Beds programme - NHS England
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Test Beds
The Test Bed Programme brings NHS organisations and industry partners together to test combinations of digital technologies with pathway redesign in real-world settings. The goal is to use the potential of digital technologies to positively transform the way in which healthcare is delivered for patients and carers.- Posted
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Using online patient feedback to improve care
Claire Cox posted an article in How to engage for patient safety
A guide from The Point of Care Foundation supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to understand how to use online patient feedback to improve quality in healthcare.- Posted
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