Health tech startup uMed has raised £3.7m in new funding for its solution that helps automate processes in running clinical studies. The latest funding follows a previous raises of £1m in October 2019 from Playfair Capital which continues as an investor in its latest round. The company now plans to use […]
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New Turing fellows announced to develop AI tech
Fifteen researchers have been awarded Turing AI Acceleration fellowships, to develop artificial intelligence technologies. The technologies will be developed to combat cancer, support data modelling, cybersecurity and use AI tools with crowdsourced information to track the spread of infectious diseases. Named after AI pioneer Alan Turing, the fellowships are supported […]
How can we make the most of a rapidly digitalised landscape, whilst still looking after our NHS people?
By Niamh McKenna, Chief Information Officer, NHS Resolution As a Board Member at Skills for Health, I was thrilled to host their recent digital focussed event, ‘2020: A Catalyst for Rapid NHS Digital Transformation’. Joining panellists from NHS England & Improvement, Health Education England, and Microsoft, we looked to dissect […]
One digital front door; revitalise your weight loss programme with ShapeUp4Life
By Solutions 4 Health The association between excess weight and poor outcomes with COVID-19 has led to even greater pressure on public health organisations to deliver successful weight loss programmes; ShapeUp4Life presents an effective solution to this long-standing problem, and now offers digital programmes to support services. The well-established relationship […]
Somerset NHS deploys quality and compliance software
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a software platform from Radar Healthcare to help with quality, compliance and risk management. The tool brings together operational and regulatory processes to help identify live incidents, mitigate risks and use real-time information to support safety. In April 2020, Somerset Partnership merged with […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ picks Restart for technical integrations
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has chosen ReStart to provide technical consulting, managed services and integration solutions. The trust will use the solution from Restart to migrate over 170 interfaces from a previous solution to InterSystems’ Health Connect. ReStart has also been contracted to provide 24hr managed services […]
NHS to pilot blood test to detect cancers
A blood test to detect more than 50 types of cancers will be piloted from mid-2021 across the NHS. The Galleri blood test, developed by GRAIL, is to be tested on 165,000 people, and if proven successful will be rolled-out more widely to help identify cancers earlier. The test, which checks […]
NHSX to develop new Data Strategy for Health and Social Care
NHSX is to launch and implement a Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, as part of measures announced by Matt Hancock this week to streamline processes and reduce excess bureaucracy. The new report ‘Busting bureaucracy: empowering frontline staff by reducing excess bureaucracy in the health and care system‘, sets […]
CliniSys and Software Testing Solutions partner to automate LIMS software testing
A new partnership between CliniSys and Software Testing Solutions has been announced to support automated software testing of laboratory management and ordering services. The partnership will support pathology labs introduce automated testing for the clinical laboratory, and help system deployments, software upgrades and patches be delivered and implemented into a live environment […]
Coventry and Warwickshire licences anonymised ophthalmology patient data
Artificial intelligence and health data company, RAIR Health, has signed a deal with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust to access anonymised patient data in the field of ophthalmology. The company focuses on the development of proprietary insights from ophthalmic data and images, and has signed a non-exclusive data license […]
