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Alcidion’s Miya Noting enhances clinician experience at South Tees

Nurses and doctors at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have highlighted the positive impacts of Miya Noting, a new digital noting solution which saves time and simplifies ways of working. On the first day of using the Miya Noting component, healthcare professionals said they were amazed by the hours of time saved. One junior

Topics | Clinical Decision Support | Digital Health | Patient Safety

How to get patients flowing: 12 uses of AI to unblock hospitals 

There is a great deal of focus given to the use of explainable AI in diagnostic applications, supporting clinicians in improving both the accuracy of diagnosis and in the speed to arrive at a diagnosis. A recent article titled ‘The AI will see you now’ published in the Wall Street Journal highlights the power of

Topics | Clinical Decision Support | Data & Analytics | Digital Health

How command centres are driving safe, efficient patient flow through hospital and beyond

Every day, our integrated care systems manage the delicate balance of providing the care patients need, whilst creating capacity to support new patients as they come into the system. This task is more complex than it may seem, with a wide range of constraints including management of staffing levels, bed availability, specialist capabilities, equipment availability,

Topics | Clinical Decision Support | Data & Analytics

Addressing Challenges in the User Experience with A Human-Centered Design Approach

When it comes to building virtual care solutions, designing an intuitive user experience is key. However, challenges can arise in the user experience when developers fail to consider the solution from the perspective of different user personas. Take for instance, Alcidion’s smartphone app, Miya Care, which empowers patients to remotely share clinical data with their

Topics | Digital Health | Out of Hospital & Virtual Care | Patient Engagement

Rewind to Rewired: Reflections from our CEO, Kate Quirke

Has the digital healthcare market moved on enough in the last 20 years?  We think it has, but are buyers just going to stick with what they know?  Digitising acute trusts has been a priority in the NHS for the last 20 years. Yet progress has been slow with persistent use of paper, lack of

Topics | Clinical Decision Support | Digital Health | Interoperability

How can we make patient flow effective and more efficient for the NHS?

Bed availability and NHS waiting times continue to hit headlines. Winter pressures have evolved into a year-round headache, with little chance for busy hospitals to recover during the spring and summer months. Combined with a growing elective backlog of more than 7 million people waiting for treatment the drive to maximise capacity and efficiency, whilst ensuring

Topics | Clinical Decision Support | Digital Health | Patient Safety

Celebrating women in digital health

On #IWD2023, Alcidion celebrates the enormous contribution women bring to the STEM space. We are proud to work with and support programs that deliver opportunities for women to expand their professional development and enhance the collaboration of women in digital health. Congratulations to Alcidion’s Anna Joseph and Renee Schofield on being accepted into the 2023 AIDH

Topics | Women in IT

Joining data across regions and key opportunities for patient flow

Recently, HTN interviewed Alcidion’s UK Commercial Director, Tom Scott and CTO, Vivek Krishnan on how Alcidion is helping Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) join up data across entire healthcare systems quickly and safely. Joining up data across regions Tom: I would say that a key way to achieve data flow across an ICS is to utilise

Topics | Digital Health | Interoperability

The WIDH Leadership Program Experience

Alcidion was proud to support the inaugural Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Women in Digital Health (WIDH) Leadership program in 2022. Congratulations to Alcidion’s Samantha Townsend and Rhian Sketcher as well as all recent graduates in developing their personal and professional digital health careers. Here, Sam and Rhian share their experiences in the program,

Topics | Women in IT

My personal experience managing COVID with Miya Care

Miraculously, despite many close calls, I had managed to dodge COVID over the past two years… until a month ago! After an outing with friends, the tell-tale signs of a cough were present and with a bright red line on a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) my illness was confirmed. I happened to be working on

Topics | Digital Health | Interoperability | Out of Hospital & Virtual Care | Patient Engagement

Interoperability with Open Standards

Interoperability is critical for the future of healthcare and the desired continuum of care, yet it continues to be a challenge faced by healthcare providers worldwide. Advances in technology have made it possible to move healthcare data efficiently and securely from one system to the next. To achieve this, conventional healthcare software vendors are opting

Topics | Digital Health | Interoperability

Initiation and Planning – setting up for success

The theory behind project management and software delivery at Alcidion is well documented to ensure we take a consistent and proven approach to our client engagement.  Let us look at some practical activities that Alcidion encourages during the Initiation phase of an engagement to set our clients and ourselves up for success. As part of

Topics | Digital Health | Life at Alcidion