Health tech supplier Pando has partnered with the British Army for its clinical communications app to keep deployed medical staff from the Defence Medical Services connected whilst in the field. The trial of Pando is part of Project LARA, an initiative to develop a suite of telemedicine capabilities to reduce the […]
Month: August 2020
Health tech specialist launches melanoma screening test for primary care
Moletest, a British based health tech company, has launched a new tool to support primary care providers with screening for skin lesions suspected of melanoma. The company hopes the tool can substantially reduce the number of unnecessary dermatology referrals to secondary care by over 50% by using the rule-out screening test for […]
University of Sheffield app supports motor neurone disease patients
A new app developed by the University of Sheffield and tech company ADI, has gone live at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT to support patients living with motor neurone disease (MND) who are receiving remote care. The trust accelerated the roll-out of the app, ahead of a planned system for remote […]
Barts Health launches new app to aid Covid-19 recovery
Barts Health NHS Trust has launched a new rehabilitation app to aid recovery of Covid-19. The app has been developed by health tech company Living With, along with clinicians from Barts Health and University College London researchers. In late 2019, University College London Hospital launched a version of the app to help […]
Crown Commercial Service agrees cloud deal with IBM
Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the UK Cabinet Office executive agency and trading fund, has signed a public cloud agreement with IBM. The three-year agreement hopes to accelerate the adoption of cloud services, by supporting public sector organisations access the IBM cloud tools. The announcement on the agreement stated that the NHS […]
NHS SBS launches new procurement framework
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has launched a new £500m Digital Workplace Solutions Framework for NHS and wider public sector. The framework initially includes 28 suppliers and is to run until August 2022, with the potential to extend for a further two years. The framework has an estimated value of […]
NHS 111 online hits over 30 million users in 4 months
NHS Digital has highlighted over 30 million people have used digital channels during the pandemic to seek health advice. In mid-March NHS 111 online was used more than 950,000 times a day, 95 times higher than it normally would have been used previously, and 30 million people visited NHS 111 online […]
DigitalHealth.London Digital Pioneer Fellowship opens
DigitalHealth.London has opened its Digital Pioneer Fellowship programme for applications, aiming to support professionals employed by NHS organisations in London to design and lead transformation projects. The 12 month programme is now in its third year, and aims to recruit up to 30 Fellows to focus on accelerating the pace […]
HTN Voice: Getting digital inclusion onto the health and care agenda
The rapid deployment of healthcare technology has been one of the most commented features of the NHS’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet a significant minority of patients cannot benefit from new, digital services; and risk being overlooked in the rush to go ‘digital first’ in a post-Covid reset. So […]
Babylon publishes research report on AI in primary care
A research paper has been published in Nature Communications by a team of Babylon scientists that has explored the use of machine learning in primary care. The paper, titled ‘Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning’, explores the use of AI, believed to be a first , […]
