In our latest Interview Series, we quickly spoke with Tobias Alpsten, CEO from iPLATO, a provider of mobile patient facing services to support access and delivery of healthcare. iPLATO is the company behind myGP, an NHS assured app, which is helping reduce the number of people booking a GP appointment by […]
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Musgrove Park Hospital makes steps to being digital
Musgrove Park Hospital, a Global Digital Exemplar is introducing iPads for doctor and nurses and has introduced a range of apps to support its services. The trust received £10 million in funding to support the digitisation of its hospital, and now 10 out of 25 wards are using tablet devices […]
Wireless microcomputer implant first for UHB
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has implanted a wireless microcomputer into its first patient. The wireless in-heart microcomputer was recently implanted into a patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. The device, called V-LAP, is implanted into the heart’s left atrium, and provides accurate data about the heart and its performance, […]
Digital participation programme supports patients with hearing and sight loss
NHS Digital’s Widening Digital Participation Programme and mHabitat have completed a project to recommend a series of apps to support patients with hearing and sight loss. mHabitat led a research project with patients with hearing and sight loss to understand the barriers they encountered in making and attending GP appointments. […]
Draper & Dash acquires Civil Eyes Research
Draper and Dash a specialist healthcare Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning provider has acquired Civil Eyes Research, a leader in healthcare benchmarking and insights. It marks the first acquisition for the company, to strengthen its offering of predictive analytics, bench marking, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Civil Eyes Research was founded […]
Health Navigator revenues up 250%
Health Navigator, a previous DigitalHealth.London accelerator has announced a year of exceptional growth, with revenues up 250% and an increase of 30% in staff. The company now supports 7 NHS trusts and 9 CCGS, and has recently been announced as a Finalist in the HTN Awards with its partnership with Vale […]
Greater Manchester unveils £14.3m digital transformation programme
Greater Manchester has unveiled plans for a £14.3m digital transformation programme to develop advanced technologies across its public services. The programme will focus on joining-up vital information and remove the current barriers of its services using a variety of different technical systems that are unable to share information. Under the plans, a […]
Portsmouth CCG first for latest electronic prescription upgrade
All GP practices in Portsmouth CCG are now live with the latest upgrade as part of the Electronic Prescription Services (EPS). The latest upgrade, Phase 4, has been piloted by the CCG and now 100% of practices are enabled for prescriptions to be sent electronically. NHS Digital said once the […]
HTN 100 Featuring: TPP, Fitbit and ORCHA
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. TPP first for Full Rollout Approval for GP Connect: Appointment Management TPP has received Full Rollout Approval for the Appointment Management capability as part of the […]
Medtech Accelerator awards £150k to two innovations
Medtech Accelerator, a specialist financial scheme for early stage medtech innovations, has announced awards totalling £150,000 to two innovation projects in the fields of critical care logistics and cornea replacement surgery. LocANTS, a software platform that facilitates the sharing of critical data when moving a patient between hospital sites, and […]
