Month: September 2019

News Secondary Care

7 new health data hubs launched

Seven new data hubs are to be rolled out across the UK to speed up research for new medicines, treatments, and technologies that support quicker diagnoses and save lives. The hubs will use the latest advances in technology to connect and analyse health data from existing locations and in partnership […]

Apps

New research study supports SkinVision App

A new study published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV) has determined SkinVision, a skin cancer application has a sensitivity of 95.1% in detecting the most common forms of skin cancer. SkinVision’s awareness and tracking solution supports individuals with the early recognition of skin cancer. […]

News Secondary Care

HTN Digital Week 2020 registration now open

HTN has today launch HTN Digital Week, a series of online events to share and collaborate on healthcare technology, taking place 20th – 26th January 2020. Supported by Dedalus UK, CCube Solutions and Rhapsody the week provides a range of webinars, features, interviews, special reports, live videos and social media […]

Secondary Care

Worcestershire Health and Care partners with Clinithink

Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, a Global Digital Exemplar Trust is now using Clinithink’s CLiX ENRICH solution, recognised for delivering quality improvements. The solutions provides clinical natural language processing using AI technology to accurately ‘read’ and interpret up to two million clinical documents an hour, automating the review of clinical […]

Apps

St Thomas’ pharmacist develops medications app

Gayle Campbell a pharmacist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has developed a new medications app to support patients take their medications correctly. The app called MedTap, features videos with NHS clinicians to provide answers to common medication questions such as when and how to take pills, what to do about […]

Secondary Care

Health Foundation award £67K to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to build digital road map

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £67,000 from the Health Foundation’s Advancing Applied Analytics programme to develop new software aimed to transform NHS outpatient care. The project will use machine learning to track 32 million datasets containing patient arrival times, length of consultations, duration of appointments and […]