The Greater Manchester Digital Platform has welcomed a new group of health tech suppliers to support the development of its next generation digital platform. The platform is being designed and built to hold, analyse and share information across health, social care and community settings across the region. The successful suppliers […]
Month: July 2020
Imperial College highlights text message reminders in cervical screening uptake
Research from a team at Imperial College London has shown sending a text message reminder can lead to more women taking up cervical screening. The findings also indicate the approaches and language used in the text messages can support greater uptake. The research has been published in the journal Preventive Medicine following a […]
Health Innovation Hub Ireland accelerator winners announced
Health Innovation Hub Ireland has announced the winners of its innovation competition to validate, pilot and fast-track solutions into the Irish healthcare system. Following a national health innovation competition, 15 health tech suppliers have been chosen. The competition was directed at companies who have an innovative product, solution or service […]
Bradford announces new health tech strategy
A new interactive digital roadmap, People First: Digital First, has just been launched in Bradford and Craven. Health and social partners across the area including Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT; Airedale NHS FT; Bradford District Care NHS FT; NHS Bradford District and Craven CCG; Bradford Council; Bradford Institute for Health Research; and […]
6 projects awarded share of £13m industrial strategy challenge fund
Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have announced 6 projects to receive a share of £13m as part of the industrial strategy challenge fund. The projects focus on cancer, liver and bowel health, and will use AI to bring together and better interpret data from multiple sources, aiming to […]
New mathematical principle used to prevent AI from making unethical decisions
A collaboration of researchers have found a mathematical principle can help regulators police Artificial Intelligence systems’ biases towards making unethical choices. In a research paper published earlier this month in the Royal Society Open Science, statisticians from University of Warwick, Imperial, EPFL and Sciteb Ltd have come together to create a […]
Oxford spin-out to launch £20 COVID test
A spin-out company from Oxford University named Oxsed Limited, has developed a test for COVID-19 that costs £20 per test. The team from the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science and Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research have developed a quick test which detects the presence of virus. The […]
Moorfields adopts AI and video consultations tech
Moorfields Eye Hospital has turned to AI to support and detect eye problems, and is providing video consultations to operate a virtual A&E department. Using AI to detect eye disease The hospital is part of a study to explore using artificial intelligence technology to detect eye disease among patients with […]
Royal Surrey ICU benefits from mobile tech
Mobile technology from three health tech suppliers has supported staff at Royal Surrey NHS FT deliver safer care during the past months. Utilising smartphones from Ascom, single sign-on from Imprivata and two-way video consultation technology from Attend Anywhere, it has reduced the number of clinicians needed to do ICU ward […]
Graphnet chosen for Northamptonshire integrated care record
Graphnet Health has been chosen as the county-wide integrated care record to be used across Northamptonshire, supporting 700,000 people. It means 69 GP practices, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, Kettering General Hospital NHS FT, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS FT, Northamptonshire County Council Social Care, 111 and GP out-of-hours service providers, and East […]
