A heatwave piled more pressure on the NHS, with every ambulance service in the country moving to a level-4 alert. A specialist orthopaedic hospital trust signed an EPR deal with System C, as an Epic customer completed its go-live; but a national usability survey found widespread dissatisfaction with NHS IT.
AI and the potential biases that could be built into machine learning tools as they are rolled out across the NHS was a hot topic of the week, with papers and specialist websites discussing the issues and how to address them.
