Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has introduced CardMedic, a communication app designed to help improve health equality and equal access to care, following a reported successful year-long pilot within the maternity department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The app works alongside the trust’s existing interpreting service to support the trust with […]
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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust goes live with electronic patient record
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust went live this week (6 June) with its electronic patient record system, replacing previous paper processes, with a digital record. The trust went live at 4am on Thursday, as part of a national programme to introduce an electronic health and social care record to cover […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals shares impact of virtual wards since November launch
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Inhealthcare have shared the impact of the trust’s virtual wards programme, launched in November 2023, to support six pathways within abdominal medicine and surgery and oncology. Introduced as an alternative to admission, or to support earlier discharge for patients requiring daily monitoring, the project […]
Announcing the second group of judges for the Health Tech Awards 2024!
Here at HTN we’re always looking forward to the Health Tech Awards sponsored by CCube Solutions, our annual awards programme designed to shine a spotlight on innovative thinking and best practice in the NHS and beyond. Each year, we gather an experienced and varied group of judges from the health […]
Cambridge University Hospitals consultant awarded funding to explore AI and video to identify gastric cancer
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT Consultant gastroenterologist, Dr Massimiliano di Pietro, has been awarded a funding grant of up to £365,000 to explore how artificial intelligence and video can help identify gastric cancer at an earlier stage. The funding for the programme, part of a wider £6 million Cancer Research UK […]
HL7 International and openEHR International consider aligning standards and specifications
International technical standards bodies HL7 International and openEHR International have announced their intention to explore a closer collaboration, and are jointly considering aligning some standards and specifications. In a joint statement by Rachel Dunscombe, CEO openEHR International and Charles Jaffe, CEO HL7 International, the pair outline how a collaboration could help “deliver […]
Hanley Consulting appoints Dr Keith Grimes as chief digital health officer to support EDATT’s AI launch for primary care
Hanley Consulting, the health tech start-up behind the innovative patient access and engagement solution, EDATT, has appointed Keith Grimes as its Chief Digital Health Officer to support the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI) powered multi-lingual digital assistant. Keith, with a background as a GP for 25 years and health […]
Case Study: Transforming the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine through digital innovation with OX.assisted reproduction
The Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) embarked on a transformative journey in collaboration with OX.DH, a leading healthcare technology firm with affiliations to the University of Oxford and Microsoft. The initiative aimed to revolutionise both patient and staff experiences at the clinic by implementing a cutting-edge digital infrastructure. The […]
FDA qualifies Apple Watch’s AFib history feature to be used in clinical studies
The FDA has qualified the Apple Watch’s Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) history feature in the US, which “opportunistically analyses pulse rate data collected by the general-purpose Apple Watch photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor” to identify episodes of irregular heart rhythms, for use in clinical studies. The Watch has qualified as part of the FDA’s […]
Help judge the esteemed Health Tech Awards!
Our favourite event of the year is here, where we hear about health tech projects and programmes from across health and care in the Health Tech Awards 2024 that have made an impact! We’re looking for a fantastic group of NHS professionals to help support the judging process for the […]
