Month: November 2019

Secondary Care

Lincolnshire Community to implement digital referral service

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is working with digital health and remote patient monitoring specialist Inhealthcare. Inhealthcare is working with the trust to develop an easy-to-use online system for handling referrals that can be accessed by both patients and professionals. The company will be creating digital referral forms for 10 […]

Secondary Care

Elsevier acquires 3D4Medical

Elsevier has made its fifth acquisition in the past two years by acquiring 3D4Medical, a global anatomy education company. 3D4Medical created Complete Anatomy, an advanced 3D anatomy platform, revolutionising how students, educators, health professionals and patients understand and interact with anatomy. The platform now has more than one million registered […]

Apps International

Amazon Alexa can now send medication reminders

Amazon is moving into the medicine adherence space by adding new functionality to Amazon Alexa. Non-adherence is well documented, with greater than 30% of patients with long term conditions failing to take their medicines correctly. This can result in possible hospital admission or deterioration. Amazon said they have introduced the […]

News Secondary Care

East Kent Hospitals embraces AI for eye health

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is embracing artificial intelligence so patients can now have their eye health monitored by a computer. Doctors at the Trust worked with the University of Kent to develop the AI software that can detect signs of eye disease. The machine-based method compares new […]

News

Barts Health plans £7.6m IT infrastructure developments

Barts Health NHS Trust is to invest £7.6 million to move its IT networks onto the cloud and develop its IT infrastructure, following a series of approved loans announced in October. In October the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock announced £184 million in funding to modernise hospitals, of which Barts Health […]