Dr Simon Wallace
In a recent webinar hosted by Digital Health, Dr Paul Altman, consultant nephrologist and chief clinical information officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, explained how speech-enabling their Cerner Millennium electronic patient record (EPR) has helped the trust accelerate its digital transformation plans. Prior to rolling out Nuance’s Dragon Medical One speech recognition software, […]
Nuance recently hosted a webinar, which looked at the benefits of speech-enabling the Epic EPR with Dragon Medical One. If you missed it, here is what was discussed. Dr Brian Zimmerman – Nuance CMIO and a physician working at an Epic hospital in Ohio – opened up proceedings by giving audience members a live demonstration […]
Cerner and Nuance have been working closely together to develop AI technologies and deploy solutions jointly with trusts to optimise workflows and enhance the clinician experience. This partnership has enabled the seamless integration of Nuance’s Dragon Medical One speech recognition software with Cerner Millennium, making it faster and easier for clinicians to update their electronic […]
One of the few positives we can take from the pandemic has undoubtedly been the innovation in healthcare during 2020. With the pressure on, the use of various technologies was adopted or accelerated to strengthen the NHS response to Covid-19 and keep services running. The optimisation of healthcare that AI and machine learning offers has […]
The survey results are sobering and reveal diminishing levels of resilience, wellbeing and increases in stress and anxiety amongst the NHS workforce. Two thirds of respondents agreed their work-life balance has worsened since the start of the pandemic. Our survey was conducted from 16th September to 4th October, before a surge in cases saw the […]
Burnout among healthcare staff continues to be a challenge. “Emotional exhaustion, elements of depersonalisation and feelings of reduced personal accomplishment … [often leading to] negative effects on patient care, increased errors, decreased self-worth and care,” said Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer at HIMSS, as he described the feeling and impact of burnout on healthcare professionals, […]
As NHS organisations work through the backlog of elective surgeries postponed during the last peak of the Covid-19 crisis, it is hugely important to ensure surgical departments are maximising efficiency where possible, while maintaining the quality and safety of the care they deliver. Documentation has a large part to play in this and is key […]
Earlier this month, we hosted a Digital Health Best Practice Webinar with our partner Microsoft, exploring how NHS Trusts across the UK have been using AI-powered clinical speech recognition to help mitigate the impact of the global pandemic. As well as key insights from myself, Dr Simon Wallace (Chief Clinical Information Officer at Nuance), and […]
The way a patient’s spell in hospital is coded is based on an important narrative. Not only does this narrative impact the financial returns of an organisation, but collectively the data produced from codes also provides a view of the care a setting delivers, the state of the public health, and much more. The need […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health and economic challenge. The impact of this novel coronavirus has felt shocking, yet experts have warned for years that a global pandemic is inevitable and that a crisis such as this should be considered a question of not ‘if’, but ‘when’. As we look to the future […]
There are many roles in the NHS that we fail to acknowledge, and most are critical to the way the NHS runs. One such role is the clinical coder which is often seen as a backroom function. On my visits to NHS hospitals, I find clinical coding departments tucked away from frontline activity and in […]
Recently we have seen the collapse of Thomas Cook, leading many to consider the fate of businesses that don’t, or can’t, move with the times. In a recent column ‘Clicks not bricks’, commentator Roy Lilley likened the challenges faced by the travel agent, to the challenges faced by GPs. He says, not unlike Thomas Cook, […]
