NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire CCG has launched a health and wellbeing app library to support people in the region access approved apps. Supported by ORCHA, the health app advisor and evaluation organisation, the library helps to provide people make informed decisions on the best apps to use, and supports healthcare […]
Month: December 2020
Rare disease diagnosis programme launched across 45 GP practices
Health tech company Mendelian has partnered with Modality NHS Partnership to launch a programme to provide support for rare disease diagnosis for over 450,000 patients across 45 GP practices. Due to start in January 2021, Mendelian’s technology will support primary care diagnosis of rare disease, throughout Modality’s GP practice network. The technology […]
Clinical studies tech start-up uMed raises £3.7m
Health tech startup uMed has raised £3.7m in new funding for its solution that helps automate processes in running clinical studies. The latest funding follows a previous raises of £1m in October 2019 from Playfair Capital which continues as an investor in its latest round. The company now plans to use […]
New Turing fellows announced to develop AI tech
Fifteen researchers have been awarded Turing AI Acceleration fellowships, to develop artificial intelligence technologies. The technologies will be developed to combat cancer, support data modelling, cybersecurity and use AI tools with crowdsourced information to track the spread of infectious diseases. Named after AI pioneer Alan Turing, the fellowships are supported […]
