UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced funding for 20 new health technology projects – ranging from robotic bowel cancer sensors and smart shoe insoles, through to helmets that perform brain scans, robots that support independent living, dissolving ‘needles’ and chips for monitoring the immune system remotely. The 20 projects are […]
Month: June 2021
IBM and UKRI to launch new £210m centre for digital innovation
The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and tech giants IBM have announced a new £210 million digital innovation centre, which will focus on advancing AI and quantum computing capabilities. As part of a five-year programme, the new Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI) will bring together expertise […]
Interview Series: Dr Michelle Webster, CCIO, and Shafiq Khalifa, Associate Director of IT, Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust
In the latest interview in the series, we speak with Dr Michelle Webster, CCIO, and Shafiq Khalifa, Associate Director of IT at Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust. We talk digital programmes, digital champions, ‘I want great care’ and ‘you said we did’ projects, patient apps, learnings, and lots more. […]
North West London launch online mental health platform
Central and Northwest London NHS Trust has rolled out a new mental health app across its local boroughs to help support children and young people with their mental health, and ensure a single, consistent service offer. Kooth is an app aimed at young people between 11 – 25 years and […]
Interview Series: clinicians that code, Dr Marcus Baw and Dr Simon Chapman
HTN recently sat down over Teams to chat with Dr Marcus Baw, a GP and software developer, and Dr Simon Chapman, a paediatrician at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Marcus and Simon joined us previously for a live session at HTN […]
BMA and RCGP call for delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme
The Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association have called on the government to delay the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme. On 12 May, NHS Digital announced the new primary care data collection service was set to come into place on 1 July 2021, to […]
MOD selects InterSystems platforms for new medical information system
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has opted for InterSystems’ HealthShare and IRIS for Health platforms to ‘underpin’ its new Defence Medical Information System, called Programme CORTISONE. The platforms will be used to help the MOD to deliver an “integrated ecosystem of medical information services” and to “rapidly develop new […]
Babylon announces multi-billion dollar merger and plan to become public company
Babylon, the global health tech company, has announced a new $4.2 billion merger with special purpose acquisition company, Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp. Once completed, the combined company will operate under the name of Babylon and trade under ‘BBLN’ at the New York-based Nasdaq Stock Market – seeing Babylon transition from […]
AI tool developed to streamline pathology workflow
A team of researchers, academics and pathologists from the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) has developed an artificial intelligence tool to help streamline pathology workflows – which could speed up diagnoses of prostate cancer. The multidisciplinary team from Oxford has created an algorithm that […]
News in Brief: VR endoscopy simulator, Nuffield’s new joined-up primary care platform
Friday has come around quickly again this week – and there’s so much more news we’ve still yet to share. The last seven days saw the announcement of a long COVID app, which is set to be released across 27 NHS trusts, as well as the appointment of a new […]
