Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust is delivering vital discharge information to GPs within hours instead of weeks, thanks to a successful electronic record-sharing initiative powered by EMIS Health. Using the Correspondence Hub solution, which enables digital delivery of previously manual correspondence, the Trust is already speeding up the delivery of documents, including discharge letters, which used to take two weeks to reach GPs.

NantHealth, a subsidiary of NantWorks, LLC, a high speed secure cloud-based information technology provider combining genomic science and big data to transform healthcare, has completed the acquisition of Harris Corporation's (NYSE:HRS) commercial Healthcare Solutions (HCS) business, a clinical systems integration innovator.

Carestream Health entered the radiography/fluoroscopy (R/F) market with two systems that deliver high-quality, cost-effective imaging: the CARESTREAM DRX-Excel and CARESTREAM DRX-Excel Plus. These systems can enhance workflow and perform contrast exams using fluoroscopy that can be associated with a radiography image,

Opinion Article by Colin Henderson, Managing Director, Orion Health UK and Ireland.
Enlightened policymakers have moved beyond just looking at health and social care integration, and are looking to population health management to safeguard the future of the people they serve. Population health management recognises that people's lives involve more than health and social care.

Theresa Griffin, MEP for the North West, met Tunstall Healthcare Group to discuss how technology-enabled housing is supporting a wide range of people in Liverpool. The discussions followed the launch of the European Single Digital Market and the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Parliament.

Opinion Article by Myriam McLoughlin, Account Director, Highland Marketing.
The BBC recently reported that the Welsh Conservative party would introduce a £10 fine for patients who frequently miss NHS hospital appointments, should they win power at next year's assembly election.

Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd has become the first in its market to achieve Level 2 of the Information Governance Toolkit (IGT) as a NHS Business Partner. IGT is an online tool from NHS England developed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) that enables organisations to measure their performance against information governance requirements.