Moorfields Eye Hospital and Digital Surgery have been awarded a grant from Innovate UK to assess artificial intelligence (AI) cataract surgery technology. The technology has been developed by Digital Surgery, the company founded by surgeons Dr. Jean Nehme and Dr. Andre Chow to help train surgeons, improve theatre flow, develop surgical teams and […]
Month: January 2020
Sheffield Children’s live with new virtual reality app to help children having surgery
A new virtual reality app has been launched to support over 10,000 children a year who have planned surgery at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The app allows children to explore everything from the waiting area to the operating theatre to help prepare and familiarise themselves for their visit. The Little Journey […]
Health Data Research launches £2m health data science partnerships
Health Data Research UK, the national institute for health data science, is launching a new opportunity that aims to help patients benefit from health and care decisions that are informed by analysing large scale data. The work includes up to four projects and a new partnership that will integrate with […]
LIVI secures £119 million to expand across Europe
KRY, a large European digital healthcare provider, has announced it has raised £119 million to help the business accelerate its ambitious growth plans in Europe. The company provides a platform to enable patients to see a doctor or a psychologist by video, at a time and place that suits them. […]
NHS Wales partners with AdviseInc for spend analytics
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) Procurement Services has partnered with AdviseInc to implement advanced spend analytics across NHS Wales. The analytics tool will support NWSSP have visibility of all non-pay spend, including analysis and insight into product switching, supply route switching, EU exit analysis and price variation tracking. The […]
NHS Herts Valleys CCG awards business intelligence and data management contract
NHS Herts Valleys CCG has awarded a new business intelligence and data management contract to NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit. The CSU has been appointed to provide business intelligence, claims management and data management services in a new two-year contract. Elke Taylor, Acting Chief Finance Officer for […]
HTN Digital Week: What to expect from day two
HTN Digital Week is a week of online events to share and collaborate on healthtech, taking place 20th – 26th January 2020. The Week is being supported by our sponsors, Rhapsody, Dedalus and CCube Solutions. It is completely free for NHS professionals and includes over 20 webinars from a range of […]
Health tech startup raises £250k to develop visual patient record
A health tech start up aiming to leverage visual data differently has raised £250k in a recently closed pre-seed funding round. The company, ISLA, has partnered with Central London Community Healthcare to focus on leveraging visual data to improve end of life care and dermatology services and to utilise the £250k […]
Pathology and radiology test results live across Wales
All health boards across Wales can now access pathology and radiology results using the Welsh Clinical Portal. In December, Cardiff and Vale became the final health board to adopt the new digital radiology results reporting service. Rhidian Hurle, Chief Clinical Information Officer for Wales and Consultant Urological Surgeon “This is […]
Health Tech startups; a guide to building products your users will love
By Nova a company with 10 years experience working with health technology startups, developing products and services for the NHS, private care settings and direct to consumer markets. In this article we want to share some of the learnings we’ve made along the way, to help you develop your own […]
