Draper & Dash has launched a multi sector Global 2018 Data Analytics Challenge giving data scientists, analysts, developers and BI teams a chance to win up to $7,000 for showcasing their work. Draper & Dash (D&D) is a London based AI and Machine learning, predictive data and analytics company. […]
Month: November 2018
Interview Series: Dr Nick Harvey, co-founder of Digitalis
In our latest interview we spoke with Dr Nick Harvey, CEO of Digitalis, NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur and RCGP Entrepreneur. Dr Harvey has been a principle GP 7 years and a trainer for 5 years and is the co-founder of Digitalis, a platform that helps busy healthcare professionals meet their obligations to […]
HTN 100: Cera Care, Homerton upgrades its outpatient services and ECLIPSE case management
HTN 100 is a 100 word challenge and news brief 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. Sponsored by CCube Solutions Designed and […]
Health tech investor Clanwilliam Group expands into medical education with Obsidian
The Clanwilliam Group has welcomed Obsidian Healthcare, its 17th business to join the fast-growing group. The Obsidian Healthcare Group educates tens of thousands of healthcare professionals across the globe each year on new innovations, drugs and clinical best practice. The company works with clinical experts to design and deliver innovative educational programmes for […]
Blood test results shared electronically between Royal Papworth and neighbouring CUH
Blood test results from patients at Royal Papworth Hospital can now be sent electronically from the laboratory at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) back to Royal Papworth, thanks to a new link between the different electronic patient record systems used at the two Trusts. The complex link between the two systems […]
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent selected for NHS Test Bed Programme
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent has received £1.2m of new NHS funding to utilise innovative digital technologies and treatments that could lead to thousands of fewer hospital admissions nationally. The area is one of seven locations nationwide to become part of the NHS Test Beds programme. Clinicians at Royal Stoke University Hospital […]
New software could help identify ‘at risk’ students
A physics lecturer has developed software that can help identify students with potential stress, wellbeing or mental health related problems at University. Dr Andrew Markwick, a lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, has come up with a simple system that allows lecturers and […]
‘Human brain’ supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time
The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time. The newly formed million-processor-core ‘Spiking Neural Network Architecture’ or ‘SpiNNaker’ machine is capable of completing […]
Social Care Institute for Excellence to research leadership in integrated care systems
The NHS Leadership Academy has commissioned the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to undertake research to further the understanding of systems leadership in integrated care systems. A new report today, sets out the findings from this research and makes recommendations for the future. It’s the latest Future of Care Report […]
Health tech panel meets for the first time
The Healthtech Advisory board will advise Matt Hancock on his technology vision for health and social care. IT experts, clinicians and academics will come together at the first meeting of the Healthtech Advisory Board today to help guide the government on its mission to transform technology in the NHS. The […]
