Cerner Millennium will be used at the new NHS Nightingale hospital in London, the 4,000 capacity bed temporary hospital to support the coronavirus pandemic. The Board of Barts Health NHS Trust will host NHS Nightingale, taking on ‘formal legal responsibility for the operation and governance’ of the new hospital. The hospital […]
Month: March 2020
EMIS, Uni of Oxford and RCGP launch COVID-19 GP data research initiative
A new research programme has been launched seeking GP practices to contribute patient data to help develop a deeper understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic in general practice. The Nuffield Department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford and the Royal College of General Practitioners are working with primary care […]
Video: Advice for the development and sale of your innovation into the NHS
Last month we caught up with Clinical Entrepreneur Philip Alton. He’s the founder of two early stage health tech startups Senti and Lister. During our catch-up we discussed some of the challenges he has faced, and the learnings and advice he has for those developing innovations with a view to selling […]
NHS Apps library sees jump in visits and mental health research survey launched
The NHS Apps Library, containing over 70 approved health apps, has seen unique visits to the website jump from 22,000 per week to 52,000 per week in March.Mental health apps in the month were the most searched for category, with an average of 6 visits per minute. Clearly, government-imposed self-isolating […]
Video: Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information, Wirral University Teaching Hospital
In January, as part of HTN Digital Week, we heard from Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information at Wirral University Teaching Hospital on population health management in the Wirral region. In this webinar Paul discusses the journey and experience that the Wirral team have been on as they have worked to […]
Trusts adopt COVID-19 impact assessment tool and new mental health module launched
The COVID-19 impact assessment tool launched just 2 weeks ago has been utilised by trusts across the country to support live hospital planning and demand assessment. The company behind the tool, Draper & Dash, developed the system to allow trusts to view and analyse national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data, […]
HTN COVID-19 Webinar Learning Series
HTN is pleased to today launch a new Health Tech Webinar Learning Series to support sharing information and learnings on the role of technology to support the current pandemic. We invite you to attend our first webinar in the series on Wednesday 1st April at 1:30 focusing on population wide […]
Babylon launches COVID-19 care assistant
Babylon Health has launched a new digital care assistant to support lower-risk patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The care assistant has been launched to support people with questions or concerns, and for those that are self-isolating as part of treatment. The company said it hopes the app supports lower-risk patients, […]
NHS teams-up with tech giants for live COVID-19 data dashboard
NHS England and Improvement and NHSX have teamed up with tech giants to consolidate key data sets to inform COVID-19 decision making. The group is to develop a data platform and dashboard that will provide organisations with secure, reliable and timely data to make informed, effective decisions. The data will […]
Text messaging service launched for people with symptoms of COVID-19
NHSX, NHS Digital and the NHS Business Services Authority have developed and launched a new messaging service to support those at home suffering with suspected Coronavirus symptoms. For those who access NHS 111 online and complete a short assessment will be sent daily SMS messages to check how people are […]
