In our latest interview series we spoke with Dr James Burnstone, CEO from Elucid mHealth, a Manchester based company supporting patients to take their medication properly. We asked James a few questions: Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your organisation? Elucid mHealth is a digital health company […]
Month: June 2019
New survey finds slow tech adoption is impacting pharmacy services
A new survey has found that 87% of pharmacists believe the profession has been slow in its adoption of new technology when compared to other sectors. The survey, commissioned by Omnicell UK, also revealed an over-riding consensus that automation within pharmacy could improve both patient and care home services. 80% […]
Sensyne Health partnership to accelerate AI data-driven drug discovery
Sensyne Health, Evotec, OSI and the University of Oxford have created a new partnership called LAB10x to accelerate data-driven drug discovery powered by AI. Evotec SE a global drug discovery and development company, the University of Oxford, Oxford University Innovation Ltd and Oxford Sciences Innovation aim to accelerate the translation […]
HTN 100 Featuring: SCR, Dedalus, Fertility Startup, Canon Medical and Imagex
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. Pharmacist can now access the Summary Care Record with one-click Pharmacists can now access vital patient information through a new Summary Care Record (SCR) 1-click function. The […]
IMS Maxims partners with Better by Marand
IMS Maxims has partnered with Better by Marand to provide its e-prescribing system, OPENeP through a reseller agreement. The partnership provides the company with an extension to its electronic patient record by integrating the e-presrbiing platform for its customers. In 2018 Matt Hancock announced a £78 million fund for NHS trusts […]
McKesson UK acquires medicines management app Echo
Echo the online medication management platform has been acquired by Mckesson. The company who also owns Lloyds Pharmacy has acquired the app as part of the organisation’s new digital healthcare strategy, which is centred around providing more simple, convenient ways for their customers to manage their health online. Catherine McDermott, chief […]
Opinion: Regionalisation is no silver bullet for NHS diagnostic pressures – but it must not fail
Regional approaches to imaging are spreading in the NHS. This will end institutional tribalism, transform peer support, and allow patients to benefit from diagnostic expertise like never before, writes Richard Turner, executive director at Change Healthcare. In the late 1990s, radiology was a very different place. Still analogue, departments relied […]
Case Study: Electronic prescribing drives improvement at Torbay and South Devon
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust delivers acute care at Torbay Hospital and runs five community hospitals. It provides health and social care to the local population of 375,000 residents and over 100,000 holiday visitors each year. The Challenge The NHS Long Term plan states that over the next five […]
Enhanced version of EMIS App Library launched
IQVIA an advanced digital health prescribing, monitoring and studies platform has collaborated with EMIS Health to launch an enhanced version of the EMIS App Library. The collaboration enables GPs, clinical pharmacists and other clinical staff to find and recommend high quality, critically validated digital health apps to patients through EMIS Web. EMIS […]
Self-testing tech expands after successful evaluation
An evaluation into self-testing technology for patients receiving treatment for long-term heart conditions in north Manchester has seen a reduction in the chance of blood clotting and has prevented at least five possible strokes. NHS Manchester Health and Care Commissioning commissioned the evaluation in partnership with the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, […]
