It’s been another busy week for the health tech community. Here at HTN we’ve picked out some of the top stories that caught our eye for our News in Brief – read on to find out what’s been happening. New data dashboard to improve colorectal cancer care A new national […]
Month: July 2022
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS to introduce 16 digital pathways
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System is partnering with Spirit Health to scale-up its virtual ward programme and at-home long condition management across the region. The ICS plans to introduce 16 digital pathways, covering 1.1 million patients, using the company’s remote monitoring platform. The 16 clinical areas include: heart […]
Join us 3 August for HTN Digital Primary Care
Join HTN and colleagues on Wednesday 3 August for our virtual event focused on all things digital primary care. HTN events provide the opportunity for healthcare professionals to share learnings, experiences and solutions on different topics and across different areas of digital in health and care. They are open to […]
Interview: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas on building a digital workforce
For our latest interview, we were joined by Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning at Health Education England (HEE). Henrietta chatted about her work in building a digital workforce, the core skills she believes a needed for digital work, advice she would give to people starting out, and more. Can […]
The Walton Centre to develop chatbot to target waiting lists
The Walton Centre NHS FT and a consultancy services company have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence chatbot. Tata Consultancy Services is working with the trust to develop an automated solution to help reduce waiting times for patients and create efficiencies. Initially the chatbot will be developed as a prototype, be […]
HTN Festival: Open Medical on adding value to your EPR
The HTN Festival concluded with a live session by Open Medical on adding value to your electronic patient record (EPR) and what it means in the context of digital health, delivered by Medical Director and orthopaedic surgeon Michael Shenouda. Michael began by laying out important questions to consider around the […]
£6.7m tender opens for digital maturity assessment
NHS England has opened a new opportunity to procure a supplier to deliver a digital maturity assessment programme. A two year contract worth up to £6.7 million, with an option to extend for a further year, will require a supplier to deliver a baseline and an enhanced assessment of NHS trusts […]
Apple shares current and future plans for healthcare
Apple has shared a report on how their products are helping users, developers and health organisations make improvements in personal health, research and care, as well as providing detail on its future plans. The report begins by stating that all health and fitness features are developed with two overarching principles. […]
Amazon to acquire US primary care provider for £3.25bn
Amazon has announced its latest move into healthcare, through the acquisition of One Medical, a “technology-powered U.S. primary care organisation”. The deal for £3.25bn ($3.9bn) will see Amazon acquire One Medical, a subscription-based service where people can have access to doctors through in-person, digital, and virtual care services, for a monthly […]
North East telemedicine project expands for stroke patients
The North East Ambulance Service alongside the Integrated Stroke Delivery Network in the region are expanding their telemedicine project, where ambulance clinicians video call the stroke units directly. The organisations have been working together to improve emergency stroke care by implementing audio visual calls from the ambulance. The technology in place will allow […]
