Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS’s digital strategy is available in text and video format, covering their visions, goals, digital strategy mission and actions for the future. The strategy opens with a comment from Dr Jane Haplin, CEO and SRO For Digital Transformation Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. Dr Haplin highlights the […]
Year: 2023
Industry view: Where in healthcare do you expect the digital focus to lie in 2023?
For our latest industry view piece, we posed three questions to our health tech audience: where in healthcare do you expect the most digital progress to be made? Does your expectation match your hope – do you think the focus will be on the areas that need it the most? If you […]
East Suffolk and North Essex launches robotic knee surgery app
Patients undergoing robotic knee surgery at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, are now being offered additional support through a specialist phone app. Medical technology company Smith+Nephew partnered with digital health experts Huma in order to create the app, with the aim of tailoring […]
Peppy Health raises £37 million for US expansion
Peppy Health, a platform that provides workplace health support, has secured £37 million in a Series B funding round led by Albion Capital, to support US expansion. The company’s platform is said to “support your employees through underserved areas of health that fall through the gaps all too often – […]
Frontiers study explores user engagement in mobile apps for people living with schizophrenia
A study entitled ‘User engagement in mobile apps for people with schizophrenia: A scoping review’ has been published in Frontiers, aiming to better understand the factors and strategies that may encourage user engagement and facilitate extended use of apps for people living with schizophrenia. Authors Raquel Simões de Almeida and […]
Funding awarded to innovations that support stroke patients
Seven innovations that support stroke patients have been awarded a share of £5 million, through a funding programme led by The Accelerated Access Collaborative and SBRI Healthcare, in collaboration with the Stroke Association. The programme focuses on using digital solutions to address challenges around pre-hospital diagnosis, rehabilitation, and life after stroke. Initially funding […]
16 healthcare data research programmes launched
Health Data Research UK (HDR) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are launching research projects to examine how winter pressures can be eased by the NHS. By using data-driven approaches, the research aims to identify pressures, understand the causes and develop ways to overcome and avoid […]
Government publishes draft guidance on NHS protection of patient data
The Department of Health and Social Care has published draft statutory guidance for NHS England with regards to how it should exercise statutory functions intended for transfer from NHS Digital. The draft regulations, named ‘Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023’, have […]
Radar Healthcare partners with Circle Health Group
Radar Healthcare has partnered with Circle Health Group to introduce its risk management and compliance system across 54 hospitals. With the aim of unlocking safety data to improve patient outcomes, Circle Health hospitals will move away from using multiple systems and use one platform across its network. The project started […]
North Tees and Hartlepool introduces app for surgery support
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has introduced an app to help patients prepare and recover from surgery. Patients who are undergoing joint replacements (knee and hip) can have the option of using the mymobility app, as a way to receive advice and support. The trust piloted the app last […]
