The Data Alliance Partnership Board has approved a new diabetes record information standard, recommended by The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB). PRSB was tasked by NHS England to develop a standard information requirement specification, to ensure health and care teams have the information to advise and support a person with diabetes […]
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£19 million awarded to develop NHS Spine platform
NHS England has awarded a £19 million contract to Aire Logic Limited, to develop an open platform for NHS Spine services. Through a four-year deal, the supplier will establish a “new, more open platform” that includes migrating existing services of the current NHS Spine platform. The programme will see the […]
NHS England announces investment to accelerate patient portals, with implementation target set
NHS England has announced a national expectation that all non-specialist acute trusts establish a patient portal in 2023/24, a letter to regional directors notes. NHS England’s chief operating officer, Sir David Sloman, and national director for digital channels, Joe Harrison, have sent a letter to NHS directors to confirm additional investment […]
NHS Grampian launches innovation initiative
NHS Grampian and InnoScot Health have launched an initiative to encourage innovative ideas from staff. Through an innovation competition for NHS Grampian staff, the health board aims to inspire its workforce to submit their ideas to improve patient care. The competition hopes to “stimulate innovative thinking and problem solving while laying a platform […]
News in brief: digital prehabilitation service, data quality team recruitment in Doncaster, remote monitoring for cancer patients and more
As usual, over the past days there have been many exciting new stories in the health tech community. In this article, we explore some of the main stories from across the country that caught our attention. Digital prehabilitation for head and neck cancer patients A new pilot project offering digital prehabilitation […]
Researchers develop speech analysis app to diagnose depression
Specialists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and Semmelweis University are developing an app based on speech analysis, designed to help diagnose depression. The AI-based technology is hoped to speed up screening for the disorder, and is currently functional, however it requires further testing before launching the developers […]
West London NHS highlights innovation and population health management in five-year strategy
North West London NHS Trust has published its five-year strategy this month, developed to respond to the changing needs of its local community, with a “major focus on tackling local health inequalities”. It sets out five strategic priorities, to focus on collaboration and system leadership; population health, inequalities and co-production; […]
Microsoft and Epic to bring OpenAI service to EHRs
Epic and Microsoft have announced a collaboration this week to integrate and develop generative AI capabilities into the Epic electronic health record. The organisations announced the news at HIMSS in Chicago, noting their plans to combine the Azure OpenAI Service with the Epic EHR. One of the first solutions being […]
Diagnostic imaging company raises over £9 million
Scan.com, a healthcare referral and digital platform for booking and receiving medical scan results, has raised over £9 million in Series A funding. The funding is said to facilitate new product development for UK insurance pathways and to scale-up the company’s operations to five additional US states. Based in London and […]
Cambridge Hospitals trials device to improve movement for Parkinson’s disease inpatients
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has launched a pilot of a medical device hoped to support Parkinson’s disease inpatients in significantly improving their movement. The body-worn device developed in Cambridge will now be offered to Parkinson’s disease inpatients at the trust. Called the CUE1, the device is commonly worn on […]
