£12.1 million in funding has been awarded to six innovations through the NHS Cancer Programme, an initiative supported by SBRI Healthcare and the Accelerated Access Collaborative. The funding programme aims to support innovators by focussing on improving early detection and diagnosis of cancer; either to enhance efficiency, coordination or communication through the […]
Month: April 2023
“The irony of this is we launched the MindYourself App and I totally reached burnout” panellists discuss healthy digital innovation
On 20 April, we attended Bruntwood Sci-Tech’s event on healthy digital innovation, which featured a panel of speakers with unique and varied experience across psychological and digital tech sectors. Speakers included Dr Jan Smith, psychologist and creator of the MindYourself App; Alex La Via, founder of Live More Offline; and Tim Brazier, managing […]
“Digital teams are the cornerstone of building a truly digital organisation” NHS Providers on effectively embedding digital into your trust
A guide to embedding digital in organisations has been developed and shared by NHS Providers and Public Digital as part of the Digital Boards programme, which aims to build board understanding of the potential and implications of the digital agenda, ultimately increasing confidence and capability to harness opportunities. The guide […]
The role of digital in green plans from five integrated care systems
How are integrated care systems going green, and what is the role of digital? Join us as we explore five ICS green plans to explore the digital sustainable priorities and projects underway across the country Somerset ICS Alongside priorities such as leadership and governance, supporting staff to engage with the […]
TympaHealth raises over £18 million
TympaHealth, a digitised ear and hearing health assessment tool, has raised over £18 million in Series A funding, led by Octopus Ventures. The tech is described as bringing “together three different diagnostic and treatment tools into one hand-held portable system” as a digital otoscope, microsuction system and hearing assessment tool to form […]
“Once you’ve invested in digitising data, it opens up new avenues” Vijay Magon on solutions and benefits for digitising patient records
At HTN Now last week, we were joined by Vijay Magon of CCube Solutions for a discussion on patient records management, interoperability and system-wide access and sharing. Vijay’s presentation focussed primarily on how electronic document and records management can be shared in order to support citizens in becoming more proactive […]
World Health Organisation to publish online guidance on managing infodemics
In a new blog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights the need for a “systematic approach to monitoring infodemics and developing infodemic insights that are reproducible and evidence-based”. WHO points to the way that the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it an “overwhelming” amount of information, including mis- and dis-information, stating: […]
Digital uptake of the NHS App and online primary care services, in relation to sociodemographic characteristics
A study entitled ‘Quantifying digital health inequality across a national healthcare system’ has been published in Research Square, setting out how the researchers analysed data from 6,356 primary care providers across England to test the association between population characteristics and digital uptake. “Quantifying sociodemographic inequalities within digital health uptake is […]
Where should digital investment go in the short-term?
Our latest poll explores the question of digital investment and the various avenues of need within the healthcare system. We asked our audience: Where should digital investment go in the short term? Participants were asked to choose between the following four options: innovation and med tech, core systems, workforce and patient-facing […]
Transformation and innovation in focus in UCLH’s five year strategy
University College London Hospitals NHS FT has published its strategy for the next five years, with a focus on improving patient services, transformation and innovation. The new strategy focuses on five themes: to provide high-quality patient care, invest in a diverse workforce, deliver world-leading research and innovation, achieve excellence in […]
