Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know if you want to be “in the know”.
👇 News
🚑 East of England Ambulance Service is currently redesigning its website to make it easier for users to find the information they need and use its services online. The new site is expected to go live later this month.
The Life Sciences Hub Wales Innovation Directory for Wales is now live, allowing users to search over 260 life sciences-related organizations based in Wales. It directs users to the right people, whether they are looking for funding, consulting, research or manufacturing support. The Innovation Directory is currently in its BETA phase and will be continually updated and expanded as the life sciences landscape evolves.
🔎 Sussex ICS has launched a new digital discharge planner to enable multidisciplinary teams involved in further care to access health information for patients leaving hospital. The care handover dashboard will be integrated into Sussex’s existing Plexus shared care record, providing access to all teams and capturing patient wishes and preferences. It will provide a single source of truth and help all providers and organizations involved in a patient's care capture updates to their care records.
💰 Record my care, a London-based company whose software platform enables care homes and social care organizations to “go digital”, has raised an additional £3 million in funding from existing investor Mercia Ventures. This latest investment will enable Log my Care to become one of the leading providers in the learning disability sector and will help to expand its presence in home care.
⏳ London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in the country to develop a composite equity index, supporting consistent quality of care regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability and social and economic circumstances . The index will also function as a strategic tool to track the trust’s progress towards equity, highlighting both progress and areas for improvement.
❓Did you know?
A new study carried out by a medical cannabis clinic Release reveals that East Cambridgeshire is the healthiest region in the UK.
The study analyzed regional data from the Office for National Statistics, the NHS and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities to identify the healthiest UK local authorities.
The regions were classified on the basis of 17 indicators, grouped into five categories: environment, behavior, life expectancy, mental healthAnd disease. Results from each category were converted into an overall score out of 100 to determine ranking.
East Cambridgeshire came top with a final score of 67.76/100. This score is a result of the region being in the top 10 places in the UK for several of the factors analyzed, such as the proportion of current smokers, which influences the behavior index group, and mental health factors, such than the average life satisfaction score.
📖 What we read
World Health Organization – Exploring the digital health landscape in the WHO European Region: digital health country profiles
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