Allscripts has secured a place on the Health Systems Support Framework that has been issued by NHS England. The framework contract has been developed to support the Five Year Forward View and Ten Year Plan agenda of integrated health and care services, population-level analysis and planning, and patient engagement. It will […]
Month: September 2018
Interview: Rob Brougham, UK MD of Ieso Digital Health
In our latest interview series, we spoke with Rob Brougham, UK MD of Ieso Digital Health. Ieso is a provider of digitally-enabled mental health care and delivers evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy online (CBT) to patients suffering from depression, anxiety and other common mental health conditions. By combining the power of technology with […]
New guidance for AI to benefit NHS
A new code of conduct for artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies will allow NHS patients to benefit from the latest innovations. Speaking at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo conference, health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy announced the initial technology partnerships Code of Conduct for Data-driven Health and Care […]
Canon Medical Research receives £140k to develop AI-powered cancer assessment prototype
Canon Medical Research Europe has been awarded £140,000 to develop a prototype that combines Artificial Intelligence and medical imaging technology to improve assessment for one of the most difficult cancers to manage, Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM). The Cancer Innovation Challenge aims to inspire novel data and technology innovations to help […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust benefits from Imprivata
Imprivata® has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed Imprivata OneSign® Single Sign-On, Imprivata Medical Device Access and Imprivata Authentication Management® platform to deliver real-time patient data to inform clinical decisions and streamline system access without weakening secure practices. The combined solution enables clinicians to securely access the Welch […]
HTN 100: Innovative treatment for depression and MYHEALTH@QEHB
HTN 100 is a 100 word challenge to help share health tech projects and learnings. In 100 words we want to hear about the technology you are using, the benefits, successes and tips. HTN 100 will be published every Friday! To participate email news@thehtn.co.uk. Innovative treatment for depression Alex O’Neill-Kerr, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS […]
150 trusts switch to e-referral service
NHS Digital has announced a total of 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have made the move to sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments through the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) and managed to beat the 1 October deadline to fully move to e-RS. Trusts that have already […]
Revealed: NHS trusts not discouraging WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other consumer apps
A new research report from CommonTime has discovered the majority of NHS acute trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools. The report highlighted that important steps to prevent staff sharing sensitive information via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other consumer applications were not being taken following responses from […]
AHSN funds a regional Health Information Exchange for the next two years
The Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria, working with its partners at Connected Health Cities, have agreed to fund a regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the next two years. The investment, worth £800K over the next two years, provides a more certain future for […]
RCP calls for doctors to embrace AI, but make sure it works for patients
In new recommendations for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to support doctors, the RCP has called on the medical profession to embrace the technology, but to make sure that it works for patients. The recommendations follow a roundtable event hosted by the RCP on 31 July 2018, at which experts […]
