For Day Two of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy Workstream Lead at Health Education England. Henrietta presented a session on ‘digital literacy’ and the importance of digital capabilities in the delivery of health and social care. Henrietta said: “Health Education England is embarking on a massive piece of work […]
Month: September 2020
Microsoft Research Project InnerEye releases its AI software as open-source
The Project InnerEye team at Microsoft Research Cambridge has released its InnerEye Deep Learning Toolkit as open-source software on GitHub. Following years of development on a machine learning toolkit, the goal of the project has been to democratise AI for medical image analysis and empower developers at research institutes, hospitals, life science organisations, and healthcare providers […]
COVID cases data overlay on Google Maps
Google is to release new functionality this week to overlay COVID cases data on Google Maps. Data from 220 countries will be used to overlay Google Maps, enabling a user to drill down to a location to understand key metrics, such as the seven-day average of new COVID cases per […]
HTN Summit 2020: Day Two
HTN Summit 2020 Day Two included 6 sessions from a range of speakers from across health and care. In this article we round-up all the action from the webinars that took place. Starting us off we welcomed Helen McGuire and Ainhoa Arjona from Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, on a session taking us through their journey […]
Video: Hugo Mathias, CIO, presents the use of robotic process automation at Northampton General
The first session of HTN Summit 2020 we were joined by Hugo Mathias, CIO at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust for a session focusing on the use of robotic process automation. Hugo said: “Across the board, there are lots of opportunities to provide automation, and we’ve recognised trying to implement our […]
Coventry and Warwickshire set to introduce Integrated Care Records
The Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Record programme has announced plans to roll-out its shared care record this Autumn. The platform will ensure health and care records for patients across the region will be available to authorised health and social care practitioners. The programme includes GP practices within Coventry and […]
HTN Summit 2020: Day One
Welcome to the HTN Summit 2020 summary of the key themes and discussions from the first day. In this article we round-up all the action from the webinars that took place. The HTN Summit is a two-day digital event showcasing innovation in health technology across eleven online sessions, where healthcare […]
Video: Peter Thomas, Director of Digital Innovation, Moorfields Eye Hospital discusses digital innovations
For Day One of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Peter Thomas, Director of Digital Innovation and Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS FT. Peter talked about the digital innovation programme at Moorfields Eye Hospital with a particular focus on the introduction of remote consultations, remote monitoring, shared care with community […]
Health tech experts reflect and share learnings
In this two part feature HTN asked health tech experts to reflect on some of their learnings this year, an exercise we also did at HTN and found extremely valuable. Following an open brief, we were looking for a variety of comments, in which we have received. The contributors reflect […]
£8.7m awarded to 7 trusts for electronic prescribing systems
£8.7 million has been awarded to 7 NHS trusts to support the move to electronic prescribing systems. The third wave of funding comes as part of a £78 million programme launched in 2018. At the time 13 trust were announced to receive a share of £16 million, and then £29.4 million […]
