Paper correspondence fails 40,000 women Over 40,000 women England have not received correspondence for cervical cancer screening following an error to send out the letters between January and June 2018. It is estimated 10% of these were test results and the remainder inviting women for screening or reminders they were due. The […]
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Nine councils awarded funding to use digital innovation to create social care of the future
NHS Digital has announced 9 councils have been awarded funding for digital innovation following a call for applications earlier in the year. The digitisation projects include, devices for measuring anxiety triggers, online financial self-assessment and benefits checker tools, and an app for social care providers, enabling them to collate important employment […]
Australian health region benefits from bedside tech
Patientrack’s new Bed Board module will replace bedside whiteboards for ACT Health, meaning healthcare professionals no longer need to manually write updates. The system pulls in data from multiple systems to display critical patient information at the patient bedside including demographics to aid in positive patient identification, patient location, estimated date […]
Instant messaging vital during a crisis
New guidance for the NHS will help staff use instant messaging safely to co-ordinate patients’ care during emergencies. Healthcare professionals have turned to communication channels such as Whatsapp to deal with emergency situations. The new guidance will help NHS organisations and staff to make a judgement on how and when to […]
NHS Digital funding to help adult social care provider sector build a digital future
NHS Digital has awarded £784,000 to the members of the Care Provider Alliance to deliver a new sector-led service which will offer digital support for social care providers. From now until March 2021, the members of the Care Provider Alliance will work to understand current levels of digital maturity, […]
Amazon expands HIPAA eligible machine learning
Amazon AWS has announced that Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible services. Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that automatically creates text transcripts from audio files will allow healthcare organisations to create text transcripts calls with […]
Elliott and Veritas team up to buy Athenahealth for $5.7bn
Athenahealth has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Veritas Capital for $135 per share in cash. Athenahealth is a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory customers in the States, the sale price of $5.7bn represent a per share purchase price premium of approximately 12 percent over the company’s […]
DeepMind Streams team to be joining Google
The team behind DeedMind Streams the mobile app that supports doctors and nurses to deliver faster, better care to patients—will be joining Google. Deepmind said “Over the past three years we’ve built a team of experts in what it takes to deploy clinical tools in practice – engineers, clinicians, translational researchers and […]
Start-up aims for 90% accuracy for cancer screening with AI
Lancor Scientific a London-based startup will open a new cancer research laboratory that aims to push for 90% accuracy for cancer screening by utilising AI. The research facility will explore the market viability and roll-out of Lancor Scientific’s patented Tumour Trace OMIS (Opto-magnetic Imaging Spectroscopy) device and the utilisation of AI technology, with […]
More women attend breast screening thanks to success of digital inclusion project
An NHS project using social media to improve health by boosting digital inclusion has led to a 13 per cent increase in first time attendances for breast screening in Stoke-on-Trent over four years. The local initiative saw information about screening posted on Facebook community groups, which empowered and enabled women […]
