The Panoply Holdings PLC, a technology-enabled services group, has announced the acquisition of healthcare transformation consultancy Difrent. The move helps the company expand into healthcare, where 75% of Difrent’s revenues are generated. Difrent’s clients include NHSX, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Business Services Authority, Public Health England, World Health […]
Month: September 2020
Six tech projects to benefit from £32m funding
Six projects have been backed by the government with new £32 million funding, announced as part of a keynote speech on research and development at London Tech Week 2020. The projects include airport-style walk-through scanners for cancer diagnoses and robotic muscles for patients who have lost muscle capability, such as patients who […]
Case Study: Lincolnshire – leading the healthcare information revolution
Lincolnshire is using the latest technology to enable healthcare professionals to share patient records Many of the challenges facing the NHS are writ large in Lincolnshire. The second largest county in England, over half of its population live in rural locations and, with one in ten residents over the age […]
Patient data capture platform raises £5 million
umotif, a patient data capture platform, has raised £5 million in a Series A investment round led by existing investor AlbionVC. Its app supports patients monitor themselves through clinical studies, and is typically sold into life sciences companies for patients to submit their data. The app has recently been used […]
Frimley Park picks EPIC as part of 5 year strategy
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £108m contract with EPIC for its electronic patient record (EPR). In late 2019, Frimley Health published an ambitious five year strategy, ‘Our future FHFT’, and set out plans for the EPR to be deployed in 2021, along with advancing in other areas of […]
Vine Health app partners with Breast Cancer Haven
Vine Health, the company behind a mobile app to support cancer patients, has partnered with Breast Cancer Haven to provide further resources and information to help cancer patients. In April 2020 the company was announced as one of the winners of TechForce19, a fund to support the roll-out of tech during […]
4 examples of AI in present-day healthcare
Over recent years there has certainly been hype around artificial intelligence and whether the reality of this technology meets those expectations. We tasked our reporter Matt White, as part of our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, to explore and research four examples of how artificial intelligence is being […]
Northampton partners with Doccla for virtual wards
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust has partnered with Swedish health tech start up, Doccla, to trial virtual wards for vulnerable patients. Doccla, found one year ago, has been developing its technology with the trust to deliver virtual wards supported by wearable and remote monitoring technology. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, NGH […]
Apple releases Covid-19 ‘Exposure Notifications Express’
Apple has released its iOS 13.7 which includes COVID-19 ‘exposure notifications express’, functionality hoped to make it easier for health agencies to join its coronavirus exposure notification system without the need to build an app. Termed ‘exposure notifications express’ is ‘only available when a Public Health Authority (PHA) supports it’, according to Apple and […]
Interview Series: Jonas Hjortshøj, Liva Healthcare
In our latest Interview Series, HTN speak to commercial officer, Jonas Hjortshøj from Liva Healthcare, about the importance of personalised healthcare and the work they have been doing with LloydsPharmacy. Could you tell us about your organisation? Liva Healthcare is an innovative health tech company headquartered in Copenhagen and London. […]
