The Health Foundation has announced five partner organisations have joined its Networked Data Lab, a national network of healthcare data and analytics experts. The network brings together teams from across the country to develop a deeper understanding of the factors affecting people’s health in the UK. It will focus on […]
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Birmingham rolls out free stop smoking app
Birmingham City Council has introduced a free stop smoking service called Quit with Bella across the city. The mobile app provides users with a virtual coach and a community of users to provide support to each other to be smoke free. The app has been developed by Solutions 4 Health, a specialist […]
Cardiff Council adopts wearable tech to prevent falls
Cardiff Council has adopted a wearable solution for residents from HAS Technology, as part of their telecare response service. The wearable solution helps to identify certain health risks early on, to put preventative measures in place for its community and residents. The product, ARMED (Advanced Risk Modelling for Early Detection) uses […]
Civica acquires information specialist InfoFlex
Civica has announced the acquisition of Infoflex, an information management system used by over 65 specialities across 130 trusts. The idea for InfoFlex came from CEO, Marc Warburton’s experience in cancer research and clinical trials. Marc said to HTN last month “During my work in cancer research I would track the […]
AI could predict risk of lung cancer coming back
A research team of computer scientists and pathologists have trained an artificial intelligence tool to help determine which patients with lung cancer have a higher risk of their disease coming back after treatment. The study is part of Cancer Research UK’s TRACERx study, a £14 million, 9-year programme. The research is in its […]
NHS Wales Health Board to launch virtual assistant
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board has launched its Welsh and English-speaking virtual assistant called CERi, developed using IBM’s Watson Assistant. The Health Board has worked with IBM and Meridian IT to develop the virtual assistant to support patients, healthcare workers and the general public by answering questions and to […]
Kettering publishes health intelligence strategy
Kettering General Hospital NHS FT has published its new health intelligence strategy, outlining plans to July 2023. A key area of focus in the intelligence strategy is to provide data and information to support staff to make information-led decisions and it sets out the ambition of the trust to become the […]
Royal Cornwall NHS Trust adopts AI location tech
Royal Cornwall NHS Trust has adopted location tech from Navenio as part of its digital transformation strategy. Navenio, a spin-out of Oxford University, is providing its location-based hospital workforce platform to support clinical imaging assistants, radiology portering and service support. It can be used to assign tasks to healthcare teams based on […]
Sheffield Children’s research project explores tele-consultations
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has researched the use of telephone and video consultations with 4,418 patients and staff. The research project aimed to help improve video consultations and analyse patient and staff responses to the new ways of working during the pandemic. At first the trust introduced phone calls […]
Video: Dr Pauline Whelan discusses developing digital mental health platforms
On day three of HTN Digital Week in June we were delighted to be joined by Dr Pauline Whelan from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Whelan presented a session focusing on developing digital (mental) health platforms with children and young people. Pauline took us through the importance of […]
