A new cardiac diagnostic device aimed at helping physicians rule out active ischemia in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain is being trialled at five of the most respected research facilities in the United States (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Baylor University, Houston, TX; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, […]
Month: July 2018
Cambio wins Coventry and Warwickshire PFM contract
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has finalised a five-year contract with Cambio Healthcare Systems for a patient flow management (PFM) system in a move to improve hospital efficiency and care quality. Won in open tender, the deal will see Cambio’s PFM rolled out across all mental health inpatient sites in […]
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS FT adopts Insource’s Patient Pathway
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has chosen to adopt Insource’s configurable Patient Pathway Plus (PP+) application to help the trust to proactively manage and accurately report its elective care and Referral-to-Treatment (RTT) patient pathways. Sarah Brisbane, Head of Contracts at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust explained, “We are […]
Digital Surgery deploys surgical artificial intelligence system
Digital Surgery has announced it has developed and demonstrated the world’s first real-time, dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) system designed for the operating room (OR). The company is building the data to power the future of surgery through its surgical procedure road maps, which aim to aid the surgical team in the […]
£37.5m investment in Digital Innovation Hubs to tackle Britain’s biggest health challenges
The new hubs will help connect regional health and care data with biomedical data in secure environments. This will pave the way for NHS, academic researchers and industry innovators to harness scientific knowledge and emerging technologies to develop new drugs and devices and improve health services. Funded through the Industrial […]
Opinion Piece: Ruairidh Barlow, MyTherapy
With the rapid advance of smartphone technology, and their seemingly universal use, all around the world people are working out how to best take advantage of it. Never before have we had the chance to access so many people so easily. Which, in a sector like healthcare, and even more so with public […]
NHS fax machines still gleaming: RCS finds over 8,000 owned by hospitals
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has revealed that NHS hospital trusts own over 8,000 fax machines. Richard Kerr, chair of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Commission on the Future of Surgery, has criticised the health service’s reliance on a technology that was in popular use about the last time […]
Specialist GP to help spread innovations to join up NHS health and social care
Dr Karen Kirkham, who runs a practice in Dorset and specialises in women’s health, will work with the wider GP community to spread tried and tested innovation and transformation techniques across the country. Dr Kirkham has been instrumental in setting up the trailblazing Dorset Integrated Care System where a new […]
Programmable tech used at King’s to control seizures
King’s College Hospital has become the first centre in Europe to implant a new generation brain stimulation device that uses scheduled programming to suppress the frequency and severity of epileptic seizures. King’s has a long history of treating patients with medication-resistant epilepsy who are not candidates for direct surgery to […]
PwC invests in healthcare technology startup Perfect Ward
PwC has announced their investment in the health technology business that has developed Perfect Ward, an online inspection tool aimed at improving quality in healthcare organisations and systems. Perfect Ward typically halves the time it takes to do a manual audit and as soon an inspection is completed, the results […]
