For HTN Now: Citizen Transformation, we interviewed Dr Andrew Whiteley, Managing Director of Lexacom, to find out more about Lexacom’s role in primary care and how they support the Citizen Access programme through their digital dictation and speech recognition software. On Lexacom’s beginnings We go back to the mid 1990s, […]
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Study shares outcomes of digital therapeutic for treating panic disorder and PTSD
A study has been published in Frontiers entitled ‘Real-world outcomes of an innovative digital therapeutic for treatment of panic disorder and PTSD: A 1,500 patient effectiveness study’. Authors Robert N. Cuyler, Rahul Katdare, Simon Thomas and Michael J. Telch noted that prior clinical trials have shown “consistent clinical benefit” in […]
Featured interview: Open Medical’s Piyush Mahapatra on digital clinical innovation
For our December innovation series, we spoke to Open Medical’s Director of Innovation and practising orthopaedic surgeon Piyush Mahapatra on clinical digital innovation. Piyush discussed what clinical digital innovation means to him, its benefits and challenges, some of the innovative programmes he himself has been involved in, and more. Clinical […]
New and improved successor to the Summary Care Record application launching
The “new and improved” successor to the Summary Care Record application is launching in the form of the National Care Records Service (NCRS), designed to provide secure access to national patient information in order to support decision making and healthcare outcomes. The NCRS is available for all authorised health and […]
Special report: solutions and case studies supporting digital social care
Last week, new Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay announced the launch of a new £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund, which will aim to support integrated care boards and local authorities to improve capacity. HTN covered the aspects of Barclay’s speech related to digital healthcare here. Following that […]
Feature: what’s happening in health tech across the globe?
The scope of health technology is vast – spanning so many different conditions, professionals and technologies, digital health is always being used in new and innovative ways. In this feature, we’ll take a look at the some of the ideas, analyses and projects from different countries, showing the breadth of […]
NHS Wales App released in early ‘beta’ phase
A ‘beta’ version of the new NHS Wales App is being trialled this month with 1,000 people across ten GP practices. The private ‘beta’ phase has opened to test the functionality and features included in the app, ahead of a wider public launch next year. During the beta phase, Digital Health […]
NHS co-created app ShinyMind set to provide wellbeing and resilience support
NHS staff of “all levels” have been involved in co-creating an app called ShinyMind that aims to provide support with wellbeing and resilience. Originally founded by psychotherapist Rebecca Howard, ShinyMind began as a live mindset programme called ‘Your Mindset, Your Choice’ to support NHS staff. Across 12 months, this psychological development […]
National Data Guardian discusses the planned NHS federated data platform
The National Data Guardian, Dr Nicola Byrne, has shared a blog in which she discusses the planned NHS federated data platform along with the topic of public trust in data. Dr Byrne begins by highlighting how the NHS has amassed “comprehensive cradle-to-grave information about tens of millions of us, whatever […]
NHS England publishes case study on improving access to primary care through technology
NHS England has published a new resource entitled ‘Ensuring new technology provides primary care access for all’, in which they examine the case study of Swan Medical Practice in Birmingham, where an AccuRx online consultation system was introduced in November 2020 in order to manage triage and develop more efficient […]
