A contact tracing system has this week been launched in Wales, initially a telephone based process, followed by an online system next week. Anyone who has a positive coronavirus test result will be contacted by a team of contact tracers and asked for details of everyone they have had close […]
Month: June 2020
20 year old Dubliner secures £12.9m funding
Evervault, a Dublin-based company founded by 20 year old Shane Curran, has raised £12.9m in Series A funding to develop ‘privacy cages’ that simplify data protection. The company is building API functionality for data privacy, initially to sell the technology to financial services and healthcare sectors. The API functionality termed ‘privacy cages’, […]
Southern Health & Social Care Trust picks Civica for new employee app
Southern Health & Social Care Trust, based in Northern Ireland, has chosen to use a new employee app from Civica. The app was developed in 4 weeks to support communications and sharing of information with employees during COVID-19. It will be used to inform healthcare professionals of the latest updates […]
Interview Series: Lauren Bevan, Head of Health and Social Care, BJSS
In this edition of our Interview Series we talk with Lauren Bevan from BJSS, to discuss the impact of COVID on the health tech industry. Can you tell me about some of the projects you’ve been working on over the past few weeks? We’ve been working a lot with NHS […]
Digital platform developed in 5 days to support COVID-19 testing
Mid and South Essex Health Care Partnership (HCP), which covers all care sectors in the mid and south Essex area, has benefited from a digital system to support key worker COVID-19 testing. An innovative bank shift platform created by consultant Dilshan Arawwawala, called Shift Partner, was extended in 5 days […]
London North West rolls out clinical messaging app
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has rolled-out Hospify, a clinical communication app, for its 10,000 staff. In March the app was approved for the NHS Apps Library to support healthcare professionals communicate using a secure, approved tool. Co-founded and developed by NHS vascular surgeon Neville Dastur and former technology […]
Humber Teaching NHS goes live with Lorenzo ePMA
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is now live with the Lorenzo ePMA module, adopting a digital approach to prescribing and administering medicines. Staff at the mental health trust across 70 sites, can now digitally access a patient’s medication information and issue prescriptions from anywhere. Dr John Byrne, Executive Medical Director, Humber Teaching […]
