Why community care fails when connectivity is an afterthought
Community care isn’t a pilot anymore, it’s policy. The direction is set, hospital to community, analogue to digital, sickness to prevention, and systems are moving to support it. But in the...
Beyond HSCN: Future proofing your healthcare network with Redcentric
The future of HSCN is uncertain. It's essential to future-proof your organisation and be ready for any changes.
Gigabit Pathways funding now available
We can help you to complete your funding requests for the Gigabit Pathways initiative, supporting you in accessing improved connectivity to meet patient and digital transformation
Working from home in healthcare: how to securely access HSCN remotely
In this article, we’ll show you how healthcare professionals can access vital HSCN data remotely, without sacrificing on IT security.
Healthcare Digital Transformation Trends 2022
Technology is reshaping healthcare and changing how we look at and manage patient care, clinics, and medical facilities. Investment in healthcare technology is growing rapidly and is predicted to...
The Complete Guide to Digital Transformation in UK Healthcare
Digital transformation is revolutionising UK healthcare. This guide explains its challenges, benefits and how it may help your organisation.
What is HSCN? Your Guide to the Health & Social Care Network
This is your complete guide to the HSCN. Learn what it is, how it affects your health and social organisation and how you can connect to the HSCN.
HSCN Secure Remote Access Tokens FAQs
Secure remote access to HSCN services and data provides clinicians critical information to support them to make informed decisions on the move. Get your questions answered below on HSCN secure remote...
Public cloud connectivity – securing access to AWS and Azure
We can say that the time for “moving to the cloud” has now passed with 88% of UK businesses using public cloud services in 2018, but yet security still remains as a major worry. With such a large...
Internet First: FAQs
HSCN is an important transitional step towards the Internet First policy, making digital health and care services available over the internet. In this FAQs article we look at what will this mean for...
Does the end of Windows 7 mean greater efficiencies for your clinicians?
January 2020 may have marked the end of support for Windows 7 but FOI requests released the same month show that a staggering 46% of machines in the NHS are still running the OS, this despite the...
HSCN CSP and Cloud Connectivity: Connecting Healthcare to AWS & Azure
Following the Government Digital Service’s effective green light to public sector use of the public cloud, health and care service providers and clinical application ISVs are keen to exploit public...
What to do when your N3 tokens expire: HSCN remote access
For the last two years people have been transitioning from N3 to HSCN and at the same time, replacing the overlay services they took. With the BT bridging gap from N3 to HSCN collapsing in August...
Transitioning from N3 to HSCN
By the end of the decade, the NHS’s N3 wide area network will have passed into IT history: as of 2017, the transition to the next generation Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) will begin....
Why HSCN is better than N3
As of April this year, all health and care organisations will fully transition to the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN), leaving N3 a thing of IT past. For over fifteen years, N3 has provided a...
Digitising the NHS and connecting to AWS
In 2016 Redcentric announced that it was offering connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which was a logical move given customer demand for AWS requiring N3 connectivity and cloud services. We...