Difrent and Visionable have announced a partnership to support healthcare organisations utilise video for collaboration. Launching this month, Difrent, a professional services company with a background of working with Public Health England and NHS Business Services Authority, will now support Visonable a health tech video collaboration platform. The alliance will […]
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Bolton NHS FT goes live with eObs tap & go tech from Imprivata in eight weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with tap & go eObs technology from Imprivata, the healthcare IT security company, in just eight weeks. The new solution ensures clinicians have the fastest route to access eObservations, in the Patientrack system used at the trust. Phillipa Winter, Chief Informatics Officer, Bolton […]
Oviva raises $21m Series B to roll-out diabetes programme across Europe
Oviva, a digital provider of Type 2 diabetes treatment across Europe, has today announced its raised $21m in Series B funding. The company has to date raised $34m and offers an evidence-based digital solution to stop the progression of and reverse Type 2 diabetes and obesity-related conditions. Its solution provides […]
Interview Series: Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-founder, Locum’s Nest
Last month we spoke with Ahmed Shahrabani from Locum’s Nest to hear more about the company and its plans for the next 12 months. Can you tell me about yourself and your organisation? I am a doctor by trade and co-founder of Locum’s Nest. I was born in Oman in […]
Challenger pharmacy startup raises £440k
A early stage start up medino, has raised £440k to challenge the pharmacy in your phone market. medino aims to take on the UK high-street retailers to make online pharmacy shopping convenient and easy. The company in December surpassed 50,000 orders and plans to use the funding to continue its growth, following […]
Bolton goes live with Allscripts Sunrise
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is now live with the Sunrise Acute Care platform from Allscripts. In October the trust went live across all wards and its A&E department, using a pathway implementation approach, when a patient is uploaded to the system their journey is continually managed digitally. Phillipa Winter, Chief […]
Orthopaedic Research UK announces first startup investment
Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK) has announced its first investment as part of the newly launched Ronald Furlong Fund, established this year in memory of the charity’s founder. The charity has invested in Renovos, a company from the University of Southampton, who will receive the first investment from the newly launched the […]
Highland Marketing blog: Roaring into the 2020s
Mark Venables, chief executive of Highland Marketing, looks back at some of the key trends in the UK health tech market in 2019, at how they affected demand for the consultancy, content, PR and marketing services it provides, and at how they will play into 2020. Politically, 2019 was a […]
Moorfields receives grant to develop use of AI in cataract surgery
Moorfields Eye Hospital and Digital Surgery have been awarded a grant from Innovate UK to assess artificial intelligence (AI) cataract surgery technology. The technology has been developed by Digital Surgery, the company founded by surgeons Dr. Jean Nehme and Dr. Andre Chow to help train surgeons, improve theatre flow, develop surgical teams and […]
Sheffield Children’s live with new virtual reality app to help children having surgery
A new virtual reality app has been launched to support over 10,000 children a year who have planned surgery at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The app allows children to explore everything from the waiting area to the operating theatre to help prepare and familiarise themselves for their visit. The Little Journey […]
