Digital Health and Care Wales has awarded a contract for laboratory information management services with an estimated value of nearly £25 million to InterSystems. The procurement was for “fully managed, cloud-based services to support the management and operational delivery for all NHS Wales laboratories” and all specialities within them. It […]
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Deep dive: insights into digital health education and training in China and Austria
Earlier this month, we explored electronic health records across Africa as part of our new international deep dive series; today, we’re taking a look at digital health education and the experiences of medical students in this area across China and Austria. Digital health education in China… In a study published last […]
Microsoft and Epic expand AI collaboration to tackle current healthcare needs
Microsoft and Epic have announced that they are expanding their strategic initiative combining Microsoft’s large-scale cloud and artificial intelligence technologies with Epic’s electronic health record ecosystem and healthcare industry experience, with the aim of addressing current issues affecting clinicians such as workforce burnout and staffing shortages. The development of the […]
New digital workplace solutions framework to launch
A prior information notice for a tender worth an estimated £1.5 billion has been shared by NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), highlighting intention to commence market engagement with suppliers around a framework agreement for the provision of digital workplace solutions. NHS SBS notes that “the scope of the intended framework […]
Microsoft collaborates with Epic to deliver “highly scalable public cloud” Azure Large Instances
Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Epic through the delivery of a Microsoft Azure Large Instances, a “highly scalable public cloud” that is “designed to achieve the scale needed to run a large Epic electronic health record database – up to 50 million database accesses per […]
Deep dive: exploring electronic health records in South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria
For our new series here on HTN, over the next couple of months we’ll be developing our international insights by sharing a regular deep dive into the world of health tech in different countries and continents. First up, we’re exploring electronic health records in Africa. Barriers and facilitators to electronic […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals seeks to engage market for its Innovation Pop-Up across seven digital areas: virtual care, network infrastructure, patient flow and more
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking to engage the market across seven thematic areas – clinical communications, virtual care, operations, SMART buildings, inpatient central monitoring, patient flow and network infrastructure – with a view to suppliers of digital solutions in these areas exploring the prospect of membership to the trust’s […]
Digital-first care company Babylon to sell UK business
Digital-first care company Babylon has announced that a previous proposal to combine their services with digital therapeutics company MindMaze will not go ahead. The news follows a previous announcement towards the end of June in which Babylon shared that they had received the proposal to combine with MindMaze. At the […]
Google Health combines large language models with AI vision encoders for X-rays
Google Health has shared an update on their work to build “lightweight, multimodal generative AI models for medical imaging” which uses a combination of large language models (LLMs) and vision encoders for X-rays. Researchers have noted that the work forms “an initial step towards a general purpose X-ray artificial intelligence system” and […]
Elective recovery implementation plan shares actions around Digital Mutual Aid System, NHS Digital Staff Passport and more
Following the establishment of the elective recovery taskforce – designed to “maximise all capacity available to us” by bringing together voices from across healthcare – the government has published an implementation plan which places focus in key areas, including empowering patients to exercise their right of choice and enabling longer-term […]
