Scan.com, a healthcare referral and digital platform for booking and receiving medical scan results, has raised over £9 million in Series A funding. The funding is said to facilitate new product development for UK insurance pathways and to scale-up the company’s operations to five additional US states. Based in London and […]
Month: April 2023
Cambridge Hospitals trials device to improve movement for Parkinson’s disease inpatients
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has launched a pilot of a medical device hoped to support Parkinson’s disease inpatients in significantly improving their movement. The body-worn device developed in Cambridge will now be offered to Parkinson’s disease inpatients at the trust. Called the CUE1, the device is commonly worn on […]
Digital primary care innovation hub launches in Humber and North Yorkshire
A digital primary care innovation hub has launched across the Humber and North Yorkshire, with an aim to accelerate, research, evaluate, and identify innovations that support primary care strategic priorities. The Humber and North Yorkshire Digital Primary Care Innovation Hub is said to be the “front door” for digital innovation […]
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB awards digital mental healthcare service
Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded a 3-year contract to Kooth PLC for its digital mental healthcare service for children and young people in the region. The £273,877 per annum contract for the digital service is set to continue the offer in the region, providing seven-day access […]
Trial launched to evaluate app for treatment for psychosis
A team of experts from King’s College London, University of Bath and The McPin Foundation have partnered with healthtech startup Avegen Health to develop and trial a new app aimed to help patients with feelings of paranoia. Through a clinical trial, the mobile app that aims to help users think of […]
Join us on 19 April for HTN Now: live webinars and research on a range of health tech topics
Join us this Wednesday, 19 April, for a day of live webinars and research on a variety of digital health topics, including remote monitoring, patient flow, records management and behavioural change solutions. At 9am, we hear from Dr Gemma Donovan of Generated Health and Dr Sabine Van Der Veer from […]
Eight guiding principles for responsible development of AI
A perspective article entitled ‘Guiding principles for the responsible development of artificial intelligence tools for healthcare’ has been published in Nature journal, with the intention of expanding guiding AI principles to assist it in “fixing deeply engrained and too often overlooked challenges in healthcare.” The researchers share eight non-exhaustive principles […]
“Infrastructure and connectivity are the backbone of reliable digitally enabled services” Pritesh Mistry on HTN Let’s Talk
Welcome back to our podcast HTN Let’s Talk, sponsored by Spirit Health! For the latest episode, we interviewed Pritesh Mistry, policy fellow for digital technologies at The King’s Fund. We discussed digital priorities for the NHS, the opportunities for integrated care systems, challenges in interoperability and more. To start off Pritesh […]
“Every action counts towards achieving a regenerative and sustainable healthcare system”
Content by Open Medical for HTN’s latest feature series focusing on sustainability. Everyone is accountable 80 percent of the carbon footprint of the NHS is attributable to clinical decisions. Although adjusting clinical practice presents a significant opportunity to decrease carbon emissions, it’s not that simple. Several factors come into play, such as […]
Innovation key to improving services and reducing waiting lists, 90% of NHS Scotland staff say
InnoScot Health has published findings from a recent survey highlighting how 90 percent of staff agree that “innovation must be at the heart of improving NHS Scotland services and helping to tackle pandemic backlogs”. The research study asked 602 NHS staff between October and November 2022 a series of questions […]
