DigitalHealth.London has today announced the 20 new digital health care innovators to be supported by the 2019-20 programme. Now in its fourth year, it supports small and medium organisations accelerate the adoption of innovations into the NHS. The Accelerator is receiving approximately £1.7 million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund as […]
Month: September 2019
£130m investment for gene-based therapies and artificial intelligence
The Government has today announced it will invest over £130 million in life-changing treatments for arthritis and cancer and for pioneering gene-based therapies for diseases including dementia and Parkinson’s. An investment of £50 million with support NHS diagnostic services and support the work of existing Centres of Excellence in digital pathology […]
Interview Series: Mat Oram, CEO & Co-founder, AdviseInc
In our latest Interview Series we spoke with Mat Oram, CEO & co-founder of AdviseInc, helping healthcare make sense of spend data and saving the NHS millions. AdviseInc’s Price Benchmarking solution has benchmarked over 45,000 suppliers, 1.7m products and 245 hospital providers providing access to past national and local spend […]
Blog: the mini budget
By Lyn Whitfield, Highland Marketing’s strategy and content director Amid the Brexit turmoil, chancellor Sajid Javid delivered a mini budget with a headline £6.2 billion for the NHS. However, as this analysis from Highland Marketing explains, most of this money had been announced before, it only covers one year, and […]
Moorfields researchers opening up development of AI
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology are researching ways to open up the development of AI algorithms to healthcare professionals without programming experience. The team is using Google AutoML, a machine-learning algorithm that learned to build an algorithm to analyse medical images and provide diagnoses. For simple […]
Imprivata and Ascom partner for ‘tap and go’ access
Imprivata®, a leading healthcare IT security company, is partnering with Ascom a provider focused on mobile workflow, to deliver a single sign-on solution for its users. The ‘tap and go’ technology will mean clinicians have speedy access to patient and clinical data when they need it. The partnership will remove […]
Ruth May on the hunt for 10 NHS App ambassadors
England’s Chief Nursing Officer, Ruth May has today launched a drive to find 10 passionate NHS ambassadors to promote the use of the new NHS App. Ambassadors for the app will be drawn from a range of different backgrounds, locations and clinical roles, and will play a critical role in […]
New app helps reduce procedural anxiety for children
A new study from Edge Hill University has shown that children using the new Xploro app are significantly less anxious before undergoing procedures than those who received traditional hospital information. Evidence shows children who are less anxious about hospital procedures have better outcomes, with the new Xploro app designed to […]
Health Tech sees highest valuations in over 5 years
A report from Hampleton Partners has highlighted the health tech sector has seen record valuations in the first half of 2019. The first half of 2019 recorded an increase in healthtech M&A activity, with 100 deals closed (11 per cent more than in 2H 2018) and around $8.3 billion in […]
New framework for cloud services
A new procurement framework has launched to streamline the process of purchasing cloud solutions. Launched by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) the innovative Cloud Solutions Framework helps the NHS, local authorities, police, educational establishments, and any other public sector organisation, to access the cloud services at best value-for-money from 24 […]
