A new Care Navigation Service (CNS) has been created by South, Central and West CSU to bring together a number of patient facing services. The service includes Booking Management Support for hospital and patient transport, PALS & Complaints service and Directory of Services (DoS) support. Liam Williams, SCW’s Director of […]
Month: March 2019
HTN 100: Matt Hancock, Highland Marketing, Experiential HealthTech, EBO.ai and Big White Wall
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. ‘We must tackle the serious ethical challenges of DNA analysis’ Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s says at the Royal Society this week In a speech this week […]
Health projects awarded £23million
Awarded under the Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) programme jointly run by Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council a series of projects have received £23 million of government funding. The projects include software which enables radiologists to diagnose breast cancer more effectively and gene therapy to combat kidney disease. Life Sciences Minister […]
HTN Digital Week Launched
HTN is delighted to launch HTN Digital Week 2019, a week of online events and information sharing, taking place 10th – 14th June 2019 for the healthcare community. Utilising digital channels HTN Digital Week will provide everyone with an opportunity to share and collaborate on digital health. The Week includes live […]
Doctolib raises €150 million
Doctolib, a Franco-German company, founded in 2013 has raised €150 million of funding from investors, valuing the company at over €1 billion. Doctolib allows patients to find nearby healthcare professionals, book / manage appointments online 24/7, have remote medical consultations via video and receive a digital prescription in their online […]
GDE Salford Royal goes paperless with anaesthetic system
The anaesthetics department at Salford Royal is going digital, following the recent installation of GE Healthcare’s Centricity™ High Acuity Anaesthesia (CHA-A) Information Management Solution – known by clinicians as ‘CHAAS’. Salford Royal, a Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) organisation, is utilising the system to automatically collect data from medical devices at each stage […]
HTN Feature: Interoperability
In our latest feature we focus on interoperability and the exchange of healthcare information. Matt Hancock has been very clear in his intent for technology to revolution health and care, and it seems interoperability is now higher on the agenda than it ever was before. In our interviews with the […]
Patient monitoring technology benefits Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has benefited from technology from Oxehealth which has led to a significant amount of staff time saved and a reduction in falls from its patients, a clinical study has shown. The Digital Care Assistant technology at Manor Hospital’s Pembleton and Stanley wards that cares for inpatients […]
New CEO and CSO for EMIS Health
EMIS Group has announced two senior appointments, Suzy Foster as Chief Executive Office and Bob Brown as Chief Solutions Officer. The appointments follow the company recently announcing EMIS-X, it’s next generation platform. You can read our exclusive interview with Pete Malcolm, EMIS Group Chief Technology Officer on EMIS-X here. Suzy Foster […]
AI-enabled mental health treatment platform goes live
Ieso Digital has announced it will integrate Artificial Intelligence into its therapist platform for the first time. It will enable therapists in the UK and US to receive data-led insights about each patient during the assessment stage of treatment, providing them with predictions of a patient’s presenting condition, severity of […]
