The Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge has created a new, interactive dashboard which allows local health systems to view the inequalities in the distribution of the general practice workforce, across individual practices and areas. Hosted on the Primary Care Unit website, the dashboard shows data from across all […]
Month: August 2021
Croydon NHS launches mapping tool
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has launched an interactive mapping service to help visitors route their care and plan their visit in advance. Available through a mobile app and desktop, a range of resources including a website and how-to guides are available for users to access at home. Dan Rennie-Hale, Director of […]
Cambridge University Hospitals video prescriptions for children, artificial pancreas tech and AI to speed up dementia diagnosis
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) has announced a range of health tech innovations, including video prescriptions of children talking about their chronic illnesses, AI to speed-up dementia diagnosis and an artificial pancreas combined with an algorithm. Clinical teams at the trust are now prescribing videos of children talking […]
NICE and the AHSN Network announce new healthcare innovation collaboration
NICE – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – and the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) have revealed plans for a new collaboration. The two organisations are set to work together on embedding innovations into the healthcare system, for the benefit of patients. By combining their strengths, skills, […]
Health Tech Trends Series, we would love to hear from you!
The HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, is back for the latest round of questions! The HTN team are now working on the next features in the series and we would love your help to answer six questions. We would like to understand, in terms of digital transformation, […]
Humber, Coast & Vale ICS opens £2m tender for single maternity system
Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System (ICS) has opened a £2 million tender to procure a single maternity system. The ICS is looking for a supplier to be in place for April 2022 to deliver a single system to be used across three or four local trusts, including Hull […]
Royal Free adopts app to manage liver patients in the community
Royal Free London NHS FT has introduced a new tool to help manage liver cirrhosis patients in the community. The CirrhoCare® App allows clinical teams to monitor patients with liver disease and spot any potential deterioration while they are at home. Liver consultant Professor Raj Mookerjee and his team, launched a […]
News in Brief: Barts Health Long COVID app funding, RCN update, UKRI healthier lives AI, podiatry e-learning
Another week, another opportunity to round-up all the exciting developments within the health tech space. Across the past seven days or so, HTN has covered NHSX funding updates for digital pathways, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust’s new five-year deal with Babylon Health, a new solution from Fujitsu, and a digital shift […]
NHSX opens funding applications for digital perioperative pathways
NHSX has opened up applications for digital perioperative pathway support, through a new fund, with the aim of helping Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to streamline services. The Perioperative Care Adoption Fund, part of a wider collaboration between NHSX, NHS England and NHS Improvement, and Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), […]
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Babylon partner to deliver digital-first services
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has agreed a new five-year deal with Babylon Health to introduce its value-based care service, Babylon 360, to support patients at the trust’s nine GP practices. The trust partnered with Babylon Health in 2020, introducing its COVID-19 app and providing its AI digital care […]
