Top 10 most read news stories

Though Covid-19 hasn’t dominated our lives and the information on wherever close to the identical degree as within the earlier two years, so much has nonetheless occurred within the final 12 months, notably within the ever-changing world of Digital Well being.

Let’s have a look again at Digital Well being’s hottest tales from the previous 12 months.

You could discover that the theme of Covid has been changed this 12 months, with our high few tales dominated by one unlucky ongoing scenario.

10. Second NHS official to join Palantir as it guns for £360m contract

There have been some huge ongoing tales in 2022 however few have sparked extra debate than NHS England’s procurement of a Federated Knowledge Platform (FDP) and US software program firm Palantir’s involvement.

In June, it was confirmed {that a} second NHS official was to affix Palantir after it emerged that the corporate was the “front-runner” for the £360 million contract, which had been bumped up from an preliminary £240m after the length of the contract was prolonged from three to 5 years.

It was introduced that Harjeet Dhaliwal, deputy director of knowledge providers at NHS England and NHS Enchancment would follow Indra Joshi, former NHSX director of AI, to the corporate.

9. Thérèse Coffey appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Again in September we had one more Secretary of State for Well being and Social Care – sure I do know it’s exhausting to maintain depend! Thérèse Coffey was appointed following a reshuffle of cupboard positions by the brand new Prime Minister, Liz Truss.

Truss remained as our ‘new Prime Minister’ for everything of her time in workplace as a result of she solely lasted 45 days. Coffey had changed Steve Barclay, who himself had solely been well being secretary for 2 months, however after Truss resigned and Rishi Sunak acquired his probability as PM, Coffey was gone and Barclay was reappointed.

8. UnitedHealth Group to buy GP IT provider EMIS for £1.2 billion

At eight is our story about American well being large UnitedHealth Group agreeing to accumulate EMIS Group in an all-cash deal price round £1.24 billion ($1.51 billion).

In accordance with a Reuters report on June 17, EMIS mentioned that it had agreed to be acquired by Optum Well being Options, an arm of UnitedHealthGroup. Bordeaux UK Holdings II Restricted, an affiliate of UnitedHealth’s Optum enterprise within the UK, can pay £1.95 for every EMIS share.

7. Dedalus to replace Lorenzo EPR with Orbis software

All the best way again in March, well being IT large Dedalus introduced that it’s going to stop providing the Lorenzo digital affected person report (EPR) system within the UK and Eire and can change to Orbis.

The corporate mentioned the transfer will assist NHS trusts and built-in care methods (ICSs) obtain the digital levelling up aspirations set out by the then well being secretary Sajid Javid (we actually have had a number of well being secretaries not too long ago), the place he referred to as for 90% of trusts to have an EPR by 2023.

Lorenzo, which for 20 years was inextricably linked to the NHS Nationwide Programme for IT, is being dropped in favour of the extra mature Orbis modular EPR product, which is utilized in over 1,000 websites in Europe and internationally.

6. NHS England to be ‘between 30 and 40 per cent smaller than current size’

Our sixth most learn story of 2022 was the information that the chief government of NHS England revealed that the organisation is predicted to be between 30-40% “smaller than the present mixed measurement of NHS England, Well being Training England and NHS Digital” by the tip of 2023/24.

In a letter to employees, Amanda Pritchard said that the official formation of ICSs on July 1 means “NHS England should now change the best way we work” including “this implies we have to scale back the dimensions of NHS England and be rigorous about what we do”.

5. NHS England planning to develop a £240 million ‘Federated Data Platform’

Into the highest 5 we go then and we’re sticking with NHS England to return to the a lot spoken about Federated Knowledge Platform. This story got here earlier than the one in tenth place, when NHS England first introduced plans to develop an FDP.

This in fact explains why the contract at this level was price £240 million earlier than, as beforehand said, it rose to an much more mahoosive £360 million. The announcement was made by way of a previous data discover forward of an open procurement.

The notice said that the information platform will probably be an “important enabler to transformational enhancements” throughout the NHS and will probably be an “ecosystem of applied sciences and providers”.

4. Outage of Advanced’s health and care solutions linked to cyber attack

As we transfer into our high 4, it gained’t take lengthy to work out that it’s dominated by one ongoing story: the Superior cyber assault. This story from early August confirmed {that a} main outage throughout quite a few well being and care methods delivered by Superior was associated to a cyber assault.

The day prior, the enterprise software program and providers supplier skilled points with quite a few well being and care merchandise, together with its Adastra software program which works with 85% of NHS 111 providers.

3. Client data exfiltrated in Advanced NHS cyber attack

At three we in fact stick with Superior with this story coming two months after the information first broke. This one revealed that shopper knowledge was accessed and extracted by hackers throughout the cyber incident.

The variant of malware utilized by the perpetrators was Lockbit 3.0, leaving some trusts with out entry to key software program methods for a number of months.

Superior confirmed that the perpetrators have been financially motivated and “have been in a position to briefly receive a restricted quantity of data from our surroundings pertaining to roughly 16 of our Staffplan and Caresys prospects”.

2. Part of Allscripts re-branded to Altera Digital Health

Your eyes don’t deceive you, at quantity two is just not a narrative linked to the Superior cyber assault.

Simply lacking out on high spot is our story from Could, the place it was confirmed that Allscripts’ hospitals and huge doctor practices enterprise had formally been purchased by Harris Laptop Company and would now be often called Altera Digital Well being.

Harris introduced in March that it was planning on buying a part of Allscripts which covers the Dawn, Paragon, Allscripts TouchWorks, Allscripts Opal, STAR, HealthQuest and dbMotion options.

1. Major outage of multiple health and care systems provided by Advanced

And eventually, the wait is over. Our most learn story of 2022 is, you guessed it, the key outage of a number of well being and care methods offered by Superior.

That is when the information first broke on August 4, the place the reason for the outages was unknown and there have been no hyperlinks to a cyber assault. The methods that skilled main outages have been Adastra, Caresys, Carenotes, Crosscare and Staffplan.

All outages have been initially handled as ‘crucial incidents’ and with the ‘highest precedence’ while beneath investigation. It took lower than 24 hours for the outage to be confirmed as being associated to a cyber assault, however it’s no shock that this primary story concerning the incident takes high spot in 2022.