One of the oldest and most extensive shared care records in England has successfully completed its transition to Orion Health, creating a platform for further expansion and development.

The Care and Health Information Exchange (CHIE), which started as the Hampshire Health Record 17 years ago, successfully completed the move in March and saw usage increase to a record 130,000 patient records viewed in June.

Opinion Article by Jamie Whysall, Head of Healthcare, Fujitsu UK.
The NHS is being asked to do more. That isn't new in itself, but the demands that are being put on trusts and their IT teams are being ratcheted up by the coronavirus pandemic.

They are being asked to prepare for more COVID-19 and a difficult winter. To recover the backlog of elective care that has developed over the past 18-months. To change in response to the arrival of integrated care systems and their agenda of more joined-up, more person-centred care.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Amadeus (MCE: AMS) announced that they are working together to help meet one of the major challenges facing travel companies today: checking and validating the COVID-19 health documentation of travelers at checkpoints where required.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHT) will receive £6m funding as part of the second wave of the Digital Aspirant programme.

The funding will support its five-year digital strategy, which aims to take the trust from a HIMSS rating of around 0.02 to level 6 in five years, as well as supporting its involvement in the region’s shared care record.

Opinion Article by Lynette Ousby, UK Managing Director, Alcidion.
There is a new energy emerging that might shake up the health tech market, and long-embedded challenges around siloed data and technologies.

Political will to move away from data being locked-in by deployed electronic patient record (EPR) systems has been reinforced in the NHSX draft strategy 'Data Saves Lives'.

Fujitsu in the UK has announced its support of the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) by bringing Epic in the Cloud to NHS trusts and UK healthcare providers.

The development means healthcare organisations looking to deploy Epic have the option, for the first time, to run the electronic patient record in the cloud.

The access to the world's largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human health and disease was launched through a genetic exome sequence analysis collaboration between AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). Managed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the browser gives access to results from analyses of whole exome sequencing data from 300,000 UK Biobank research participants.