Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with eConsent to digitise the consent process. The solution from Wellbeing Software ensures accurate patient information is consistently captured and the necessary permissions required for any surgical procedure. It enables consent forms to be created dynamically, pre-populated with individual patient demographics and presented to […]
Month: March 2019
NHS Digital’s Daniel Ray named second in dataIQ top 100
NHS Digital’s Daniel Ray has been named the second most influential data and analytics practitioner in the UK by dataIQ’s top 100 list. The dataIQ list is the only fully-curated power list of data and analytics practitioners in the UK, with nominations from across both public and private sectors involved […]
AI research programme launched in London
CAP-AI, a pioneering research programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI), is underway at Barts Life Sciences involving project teams from Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London. The organisations will support London-based Small/Medium Enterprise (SME) with the aim of creating a new product that can be commercialised. Comprised […]
HTN 100: 4K at Ayr, Torbay and South Devon ePMA and EBO.ai expands to UK
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. EBO.ai expands into the UK EBO.ai, an artificial intelligence company, has announced the opening of its new UK office. The company was initially founded in Malta. “AI […]
Babylon launches in Canada
Telus Health and Babylon are together launching Babylon by TELUS Health, a future-forward virtual healthcare solution that promises to revolutionise how Canadians take control of their own health from the convenience of a smartphone. The solution will provide access to healthcare support and information 24/7 and aims to improve efficiency of […]
Salford Royal GDE launches own app library
Salford Royal a Global Digital Exemplar has launched its own app library. The Trust said: “With over 325,000 health care apps on the market, there is now a solution to help residents of Salford find the best and safest ones, in the shape of an easy-to-use library on the web: […]
13 innovations join NHS Innovation Accelerator
13 innovations have joined the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) programme supporting priority areas for England’s NHS: Mental Health, Primary Care and early diagnosis and prevention of cancer. The NIA has supported the uptake and spread of 37 high impact, evidence-based innovations across more than 1,700 NHS sites since it launched […]
Feature: NHS Email Communication
During a speech recently at a NHS England conference Matt Hancock outlined ambitions for healthcare staff to email patients directly with information on appointments to reduce delays and cut costs in paper and postage. In the speech Hancock said “Email is as secure and cheaper than communicating through paper and […]
VR medical training company joins NHS Innovation Accelerator programme
Virti a virtual and augmented reality company specialising in medical training has been selected to join the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. The platform uses virtual and augmented reality combined with artificial intelligence to transport users into realistic, hard-to-access environments and safely assesses them under pressure to reduce anxiety and improve human […]
NICE Evidence Standards Framework for Digital Health Technologies V2 launched
NICE has published an updated version of its evidence standards framework for digital health technologies that sets out the evidence requirements for different types of tech. You can download the evidence standards framework for digital health technologies here. The first edition was published in December 2018 with the latest version updated […]
