A research paper has been published this week focusing on the use of AI and machine learning to support early detection of pulmonary tuberculosis via chest radiography, following an international study across 10 countries. The deep learning system (DLS) was trained to detect active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), with the study […]
Month: May 2021
NHS Digital publishes primary care stats on COVID-19 patients for the first time
Statistics about COVID-19 patients in primary care have now been published by NHS Digital, as part of its new ‘Coronavirus as Recorded in Primary Care’ publication. It marks the first time this information – which includes the number of people in England recorded by GPs with either a positive COVID-19 […]
News in brief: new laser tech for liver transplants, ORCHA collaborates on app library
During a week in which NHS England announced the roll-out of 30,000 iPads to support ambulance crews across the country, while Greater Manchester Combined Authority issued a new tender for its GM One Network, health tech has once again been prominent in the headlines. At HTN we’ve also been busy […]
University of Surrey and Vinehealth awarded £1m grant
Vinehealth and University of Surrey have been awarded a £1 million grant to trial a support app for patients undergoing cancer treatment. The grant, from Innovate UK, is to to fund a randomised controlled trial of the cancer companion app, which aims to support patient self-management. Its mobile app supports cancer patients […]
Interview Series: Wes Wright and Andy Wilcox of Imprivata
Digital identity experts, Imprivata, recently joined us for the latest edition of HTN Now – to offer their expertise and experience in a webinar alongside Andy Kinnear, Partnership Director at Ethical Healthcare. HTN spoke to Andy Wilcox, Imprivata’s Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Wes Wright, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the company, […]
LSE–Lancet Commission on the future of the NHS calls for re-evaluation of digital health
The Lancet and the London School of Economics (LSE) recently published a report on its joint-commission, which was launched to independently evaluate the NHS – focusing on areas such as spending, sustainability, changing health needs, IT and digital technology. Set up in 2018 for the NHS’s 70th anniversary, the commission’s […]
Greater Manchester opens tender for ‘GM One Network’
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), and partner authorities across Greater Manchester, have issued a tender to find a supplier for its ‘GM One Network’, a single active network infrastructure across the region’s public sector sites. GMCA contracted UBDS to undertake a discovery and develop an outline business case for the GM One […]
Grimsby hospital goes live with EPMA
Grimsby hospital has today gone live with its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system on its Amethyst Ward and its Stroke Unit. The hospital becomes the third and final of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust’s EPMA programme, following the system going live at Goole hospital in October 2019, […]
30,000 iPads to be sent to ambulance trusts
NHS England has announced today that 30,000 iPads will be provided to support ambulance crews across England. Funded by NHSX, the investment aims to see the introduction of up-to-date technology used across ambulance crews, and provide the functionality to support use cases such as the ability to send pictures of patients […]
Huma raises £91 million to scale internationally
Huma, a digital platform that supports a ‘hospital at home’ model, has raised $130 million (£91m) from investors. The company said the investment will be used to scale the platform, and to support pharmaceutical and research industries to run decentralised clinical trials. In 2020, the company was supported by NHSX to […]
