As the curtain came up on HTN Now June 2021, we were joined for our first live webcast by the digital healthcare company Ideal Health, to discuss how to lead a successful digital health implementation. Offering a ‘how to’ for health and care organisations, Jonah Aburrow-Jones, Director of Ideal Health, […]
Month: June 2021
Interview Series: Tremaine Richard-Noel, Head of Emerging Technology at Northampton General Hospital
HTN chatted with Tremaine Richard-Noel, Head of Emerging Technology at Northampton General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (NGH), ahead of his upcoming appearance at HTN Now June 2021. Before his live webinar session on Thursday 17 June at 3pm, where he’ll discuss robotic process automation (RPA) and its application within the NHS, we […]
Salford Care introduces new remote monitoring app for heart failure patients
Healthcare teams at Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance Group, is piloting the use of a remote monitoring system to support heart failure patients. The tech includes a smartphone app designed by connected care supplier Dignio and easy-to-use bluetooth devices. It’s currently being used by teams in […]
Frimley Health picks Hyland as part of five-year strategy
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has selected OnBase from Hyland, an information platform, to digitise and manage clinical documents. In September 2020, Frimley announced it would adopt Epic as it electronic patient record, part of a £108m deal. The trust in late 2019 published an ambitious five-year strategy, ‘Our future FHFT’, […]
News in brief: NHS Arden and GEM analytics contract, Welsh Nursing Care Record roll-out, surgical robot to speed up cancer ops
This week we’ve been building up to our latest instalment of HTN Now – a series of live webcasts and content – so it’s been a busy time. But that hasn’t stopped the health tech news. In the past few days alone we’ve also covered NHS Digital’s two month delay […]
HTN Now June 2021: What to expect from our live webcasts
The next instalment in our health tech for the now series is almost upon us, with four days of live health tech sessions and content from a variety of digital leaders. With only five days to go until the next HTN Now event in the series, which begins on 14 […]
Interview Series: “It’s all about people, process and technology” – Tony Bowden, Chief Exec at Helicon Health
HTN got in touch with Tony Bowden, the Chief Executive of Helicon Health, to follow up on the health tech and medical research company’s entry in our first Digital Playbook. A spin-out from University College London (UCL), originally founded on work done in the fields of health informatics and multi-professional education, […]
Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN releases study on GP prescribing decision support
Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) has carried out an analysis on how using a prescribing decision support system has benefitted GPs and other primary care prescribers – with the use of tech in this area having the potential to support safety. The study by the AHSN was […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ plans to continue using virtual visiting app for intensive care patients
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has been using its virtual visiting platform project, Life Lines, to improve communication for patients in intensive care. Originally created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic – as friends and family were not freely allowed to visit hospital patients in person – […]
NHS Digital announces delay to collection of GP data
NHS Digital has announced a two month delay to the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme, a primary care data collection service originally set to come into place on 1 July 2021. On 12 May, NHS Digital announced the data collection service, to make near-real-time information and data […]
