Matt Hancock has announced through the GP IT Futures framework the need to create an open, competitive market to encourage the best technology used in primary care and to shake-up the sector. In the announcement it was stated that all systems will be required to meet minimum standards to ensure […]
Month: December 2018
Virtual reality gaming helps patients with visual vertigo
Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS FT has installed a state-of-the-art virtual reality computer gaming suite at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital to help patents with visual vertigo. The use of the technology has already led to a dramatic improvement in recovery times for patients suffering with the condition, with those using the […]
SW England deploys System C CarePlus
A single child health information system spanning the whole of South West England from South Gloucester to the Isles of Scilly, has successfully gone live based on System C’s CarePlus child health software. The system manages the records of 710,000 children, logging the health status of individual children and the […]
Health Innovation Exchange supports Oh My Mood to develop their mental health programmes
Mental health company Oh My Mood are developing their blended care pathways programme for the UK market, now with support from the Health Innovation Exchange project. Oh My Mood work with clinicians, universities to make evidence-based blended care pathways available to mental health therapists and service users in order to […]
Imaging innovation and AI raising the spirits of UK radiology
A new survey from Canon Medical Systems UK has highlighted innovation and AI as what enthuses radiographers and radiologists the most, followed by imaging improving patient outcomes (27%) and the use of diagnostic imaging replacing invasive clinical procedures (21%). The greatest challenges currently facing radiologists and radiographers were cited as staffing […]
MJOG partners with eConsult across Sunderland
MJOG has partnered with eConsult and Sunderland’s health funding authority as part of its new Smart Partners programme, which helps encourage the widespread take up of innovative digital healthcare services. MJOG and eConsult will support more than 280,000 patients covered by Sunderland’s Clinical Commissioning Group enabling them to be informed […]
New contract for Welsh national clinical benchmarking and analytics systems awarded to CHKS
CHKS has been awarded a new contract for the provision of an all Wales national and Health Board clinical benchmarking and analytics system. The system called iCompare will help the NHS organisations in Wales identify areas of good, and poor performance and encourage the sharing of best practice. CHKS will […]
HTN Newsletter
The past month was our busiest month yet where we held our annual Health Tech Awards 2018 and covered many great news stories. In our latest Interview Series we spoke with Dr Juilian Nesbitt founder of Dr Julian and Dr Nick Harvey, co-founder of Digitalis. We announced that you can now order […]
HTN 100: Shaping Cloud, Egton Online Triage and Care to Translate
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. Shaping Cloud selects Highland Marketing to help achieve its growth ambitions Shaping Cloud provides cloud consultancy and migration support to clients such as Salford Royal NHS Foundation […]
HTN Feature: Tech trends for 2019
We spoke with industry leaders to hear their views on some of the tech trends for 2019. Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash Healthcare: In the last year we have experienced a number of exciting changes in the health technology ecosystem. With the start-up community seeing an acceleration in the […]
