Boots UK is to pilot an innovative new video GP service provided by LIVI to help make access to healthcare even easier. The pilots will take place in North West Surry and a private service in the London Liverpool Street store. LIVI allows patients to see a GP by video consultation […]
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Interview Series: Joachim Werr, CEO, Health Navigator
This week we interviewed Joachim Werr the CEO of Health Navigator, a company that helps predict and prevent avoidable urgent and emergency care by combining data and artificial intelligence with proactive health coaching. We asked Joachim how Health Navigator started: I was an emergency room physician, trained in Stockholm, and […]
NHS Digital partners with University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM for new hub for clinical trials
NHS Digital has partnered with the University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM to develop a new hub that aims to revolutionise the way in which clinical trials are delivered. NHS DigiTrial, the NHS Health Data Research Hub for Clinical Trials, is one of seven hubs announced this week to enable cutting-edge […]
HTN 100: TomTom, new accelerator launches and health.io raises £50m
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every week email news@thehtn.co.uk. TomTom Telematics helps Kent Central Ambulance Service TomTom Telematics is helping Kent Central Ambulance Service to meet its NHS targets for patient delivery 97% of the […]
7 new health data hubs launched
Seven new data hubs are to be rolled out across the UK to speed up research for new medicines, treatments, and technologies that support quicker diagnoses and save lives. The hubs will use the latest advances in technology to connect and analyse health data from existing locations and in partnership […]
New research study supports SkinVision App
A new study published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV) has determined SkinVision, a skin cancer application has a sensitivity of 95.1% in detecting the most common forms of skin cancer. SkinVision’s awareness and tracking solution supports individuals with the early recognition of skin cancer. […]
Industry View: Health and Care Innovation Expo
Health and Care Innovation Expo 2019 was the biggest NHS-led event of the year. Held on 4-5 September at Manchester Central, it attracted people from the NHS, social care, local government, the third sector and the commercial sector. It focused on bringing the NHS Long Term Plan to life, and this […]
HTN Digital Week 2020 registration now open
HTN has today launch HTN Digital Week, a series of online events to share and collaborate on healthcare technology, taking place 20th – 26th January 2020. Supported by Dedalus UK, CCube Solutions and Rhapsody the week provides a range of webinars, features, interviews, special reports, live videos and social media […]
Worcestershire Health and Care partners with Clinithink
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, a Global Digital Exemplar Trust is now using Clinithink’s CLiX ENRICH solution, recognised for delivering quality improvements. The solutions provides clinical natural language processing using AI technology to accurately ‘read’ and interpret up to two million clinical documents an hour, automating the review of clinical […]
Liva Healthcare wins funding to help treat pregnant women at risk of Type 2 diabetes
Liva Healthcare, the digital health coaching company, has this month secured funding from the EU Horizon 2020 fund to develop the: ‘Impact Diabetes Baby 2 Bump’ research project. The company will work with researchers from seven universities including the University College Dublin, the University of Bristol and the University of Granada, […]