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On Thursday 26 March 2020, the Open Data Institute Leeds, Beautiful Information and NHS Digital joined forces to host the inaugural Open Data Saves Lives hackathon in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It attracted over 50 participants across the spectrum of public and private sector organisations from local authorities, universities and NHS trusts to clinical commissioning … Continue reading “Being Radically Open during the COVID-19 outbreak: Covid-19 Open Data Hackathon”

NHS Improvement has decided to move the COVID-19 collection into another collection separate to that which is already collected for daily sitrep. There are currently no plans to automate this collection. The daily collection of the COVID-19 metrics is to be submitted and validated manually via a new portal which can be accessed here. For … Continue reading “Latest NHS Improvement guidance on COVID-19 daily metrics submission”

On 12 February 2020 we presented a stand at the excellent ‘Two’s Company: The What, Whys and Hows of Digital Twins in Industry Today and Tomorrow’ event hosted by Discovery Park in Sandwich, Kent. The event was a celebration of the best digital innovation across many sectors, including health, with some keynote presentations from Siemens … Continue reading “BEAUTIFUL INFORMATION MEETS DIGITAL TWINS”

Operating theatres are the most expensive part of any hospital and, often, the most inefficient. It’s estimated that an extra 290,000 routine operations could be performed in the NHS each year with better efficiency. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement calculates that each trust could save £7 million a year by running ‘productive theatre’. … Continue reading “An award-winning Bluetooth Operating Theatre solution launches in the UK”

Following our successful first open day last November, we’re delighted to announce another virtual event taking place on Thursday 30 April 2020 from 12pm – 1.30pm. In December 2019, the Emergency Department Patient Tracking List was awarded best project by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and this will feature as part of the virtual … Continue reading “BEAUTIFUL INFORMATION INVITES YOU TO ITS SECOND OPEN DAY”

The analysts’ revolution! Thursday 19 March 2020 09:30 – 16:00 Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham B4 7XG Population Health Management (PHM) requires a radical shift in the use of analysis. This event explores this shift. It is for both analysts and decision makers using analysis. Health and social care systems do not make best use … Continue reading “Midlands Population Health Academy”

We have teamed up with Alamac on a new regional initiative, which combines regional health data from four acute care providers across Surrey Heartlands’ Integrated Care System, to help improve outcomes for patients. The web-based dashboard brings together real-time Emergency Care data from across six sites. It then collates it into a single, clear and … Continue reading “Surrey gets regional data insight”

This month we have started work on developing the new Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance Patient Tracking List (PTL) which will be a centralised tracking list of patients for the whole of Kent and Medway, to monitor them throughout their cancer treatment pathway. Staff will be able to see where a patient is on their … Continue reading “Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance Patient Tracking List (PTL)”

We are working with The North Manchester Diabetes Centre and the University of Salford to capture the ‘current status’ of diabetes on a digital dashboard. The dashboard will initially focus on ulcers and amputations to establish key metrics for clinicians. To start, the project will rely on manual input but the long-term aim is for … Continue reading “Diabetes dashboard for North Manchester”