By Thomas Cooke, clinical services manager at Liva Healthcare The NHS plans to treat up to 2.5 million people with personalised care by 2024. Personalised care can mean many things, from medication targeted at a person’s own genome, to care plans based on a patient’s personal needs and preferences. The […]
Month: October 2020
TestCard raises £4.5 million in funding
TestCard, the company founded by Dr Andrew Botham and technologist Luke Heron, has raised £4.5 million in funding. The company aims to facilitate an earlier diagnosis by supporting people diagnose common conditions and diseases using the camera on their mobile phone. In November the company is set to launch an at-home UTI […]
Healthcare drone pilot to take place at Mid and South East Essex NHS FT
Over the next couple of months a pilot will take place for the use of drones to transport samples at Broomfield Hospital. The drone has a wingspan of three-metres and will be tested at a purpose built landing pad on the hospital site in Chelmsford. Although it has a large wing-span, […]
EMIS launches first EMIS-X application
Emis has announced the launch of the first application as part of its new EMIS-X cloud-based platform. The application, called Explorer, comes as part of a new EMIS-X Analytics suite to provide tools to support healthcare teams with data insights and analytics. Explorer is being used in a pilot to support researchers […]
Royal Devon and Exeter’s Epic go-live week
By David Kwo, EPR consultant and researcher, who provides a first-hand account of the EPR implementation and go-live at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. David has supported the trust as an external EPR assurance agent and advisor. On Saturday 10 October, at 4:45am, the Royal Devon and […]
Kent Community goes live with Rio EPR
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has gone live this month with the core part of the electronic patient record from Servelec. The trust is also in the process of implementing Servelec’s cloud-based interoperability platform Conexes, to share data between systems and apps. The first phase of the EPR programme […]
New virtual reality software for scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
Virtual reality software created by scientists at the University of Cambridge and 3D image analysis software company Lume VR Ltd has been launched. The new software allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells in 3D, rather than data on a screen in 2D. Called vLUME, it allows super-resolution microscopy […]
HTN Feature: Digital Social Care
In a two part series we explore some of the programmes and technologies supporting social care digitisation. In this part one of the series we speak with interoperability specialists Healthcare Gateway to explore data sharing, to hear about their work with the Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) programme […]
eConsult Health raises £5million
eConsult Health, the online consultation provider supporting primary care, has raised £5 million in investment from Gresham House Ventures. The company said the investment is to support their expansion into the secondary care market, maintain its position in primary care for its digital triage services, and continue the rollout of its urgent and […]
Single Electronic Patient Record planned across Lancashire and South Cumbria
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) has announced plans to move to a single electronic patient record across the region. The procurement is being led by the Lancashire Procurement Cluster (hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust), with the programme to include Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East […]
