University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Carestream’s medical imaging solutions to support co-ordinated, collaborative care across the Trust’s hospital site. The solutions will provide workflow management, clinical repository, diagnostic and image distribution functions as well as analytics applications to simplify medical image management and empower effective integration of services across sites for enhanced […]
Month: January 2019
First robotic heart surgery a success from 20 miles away
Dr. Tejas Patel, Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist of the Apex Heart Institute at Ahmedabad has performed heart surgery from a distance of 20 miles away. The procedure, which lasted just 15 minutes was to place a stent in the second artery that was clogged, using an internet-enabled robotic arm […]
Highland Marketing tech and security predictions, 2019
What will be the key health tech and security trends affecting the NHS in the coming year and beyond? Highland Marketing asked members of its advisory group for their predictions. James Norman, healthcare CIO – EMEA at DellEMC I think there are going to be a few key initiatives that […]
Boots UK acquires Wiggly-Amps
Boots UK has announced the acquisition of Wiggly-Amps Limited, a health technology company providing solutions that enable patients and their GPs to better manage their prescription needs. Boots UK the largest pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer with over 20,000 healthcare providers and over 6,500 pharmacists has acquired the company to […]
HTN Newsletter
In December we released a feature looking into tech trends and predictions for 2019 and we continued our HTN 100 series: HTN 100: Shaping Cloud, Egton Online Triage and Care to Translate HTN 100: NICE, NELFT, Imprivata and Olympus HTN 100: Insource, digital dictation, Dedalus and Servelec Highland Marketing looked ahead […]
Tech trial hopes to detect multiple cancers
Cancer Research UK has funded a trial to test whether technology can identify cancers from a patients breath. Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, a Cancer Research UK-funded scientist from the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge, is leading the trial “The PAN trial is seeing if you can use a breath test […]
NHS Education for Scotland launches tech guideline learning resource
NHS Education for Scotland has launched the ‘Introduction to Technology Enabled Care’ (TEC) learning resource to address the recommendation for a national approach to learning and development from the research report – ‘Supporting Scotland’s Workforce’. The learning resource is available free of charge and is aimed at staff in the […]
