This email contains news for Healthcare Gateway customers No Images? Click here We’ve been shortlisted - HTN Awards 2018Healthcare Gateway and the Lancashire Person Record Exchange Service (LPRES) have been shortlisted in the Paperless Project of the Year category for the 2018 HTN Awards 2018 The LPRES programme enables the sharing of crucial health and social care information via a Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform supplied by Tiani-Spirit UK. The platform is supported by the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) and uses Documents Services to send clinical documents to over 300 GP practices. Find out more. “The MIG enables health and care organisations to exchange any type of clinical document and the LPRES project demonstrates the benefits of electronic document transfer. It’s always a pleasure to work with LPRES and it’s fantastic that the hard work of both teams has been recognised.” Peter Anderson, Managing Director, Healthcare Gateway. In the newsLeeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the new year in a bid to oust outdated tech from its wards. GP practices to begin trials of video consultationsThe Now GP app will be used by five groups of NHS practices and one ‘very large’ GP practice in England to facilitate video consultations with patients. Keep up to dateReal time help for Barnsley HospiceWe’ve launched a new case study, which shows how Barnsley Hospice are using the MIG to access GP information about patients admitted to their service. The hospice has a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social services, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, who access the Detailed Care Record service through the South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust electronic patient record system. They enabled Shared Record Viewer (SRV) earlier this year. Find out more. Service delivery updateScheduled maintenance Support notification emails to stop in January Follow us on Twitter Meet the team - Martin MacGillJob title - Head of Development When did you join the company and what's your role?I initially joined Healthcare Gateway in April 2014 as a Senior Developer, replacing the existing developer who had left the business. I became the Head of Development in April 2017 and since then we've released the enhanced MIG enhancement and introduced improvements to the quality and performance we deliver to our customers. What do you enjoy most about your role? Interesting fact EventsMaking a difference by integrating care event11 October 2018 - Hotel Mercure London Heathrow (10:00 – 16:00) We have a number of key speakers who will be presenting at the showcase event from Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Connecting Care, Bristol. Book your place. RemindersEnhancing data for effective careWatch our new video case study, which explains how the MIG has been enabled by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. Care home and hospice system becomes MIG accreditedThe Care Database is the latest system provider to become MIG accredited. Redundancies loom over major restructure at NHS DigitalHundreds of staff at NHS Digital will be forced to re-train or face redundancy following a major restructure. |