You might remember 1976. The summer was sweltering, Concorde took to the skies and Abba had a hit with ‘Money, Money, Money’ – the second success from their chart-topping album Arrival which catapulted them to global stardom. The arrival of Christmas last year illustrated how the NHS is struggling with […]
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Second wave of NHS England test beds launched
NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences have launched a new competition to identify a second wave of ‘test beds’ that will allow organisations to apply for a share of up to £6 million in funding. The Test Beds programme is a joint programme between NHS England and government. It involves […]
Introducing Uber Health for USA patients
Uber has announced a new service, Uber Health, to allow healthcare providers to assign rides for their patients. In the announcement, Uber said 3.6 million Americans miss doctor appointments due to lack of reliable transport and no-show rates could be as high as 30%. Uber Health is a way for […]
Surgeons trial new technology in fight against liver cancer
Surgeons working at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are pioneering the use of new technology to help them treat cancer of the liver. New software called LiverMultiScan is being trialled at the Trust to support specialists make better use of MRI scans carried out in advance of liver surgery, giving them a […]
New podcast series launched to share innovations in primary care
The Eastern Academic Health Science Network is launching a series of podcasts that explore innovative ways of managing primary care under pressure. Each episode aims to uncover the secrets of successful primary care teams working in the NHS today. The Primary Care Talks host, Dr Hasan Chowhan, interviews fellow GPs to find […]
The NHS takes crucial steps towards adoption of the cloud by Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper and Dash
The government has taken a significant step towards supporting cloud-provisioned environments for storing NHS patient data as a means to drive better value and security for healthcare services which includes public and private data. As part of a shake up by NHS Digital, new methods for collecting, accessing and analysing […]
Bradford District Care designs business intelligence dashboard
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust Ward and Community has designed a dashboard to provide access to consolidated integrated data in a timely, accurate and secure manner. It allows users to retrieve information via standard reporting, self-service query or a data interface and the dashboards provide business units with live […]
HTN February 2018 Newsletter
In February we announced the Health Tech Awards 2018 in association with CCube Solutions are open for entries and we were delighted to launch with 12 great categories from Best Use of Data to User-led Innovation. We interviewed Hicom in a really interesting piece about them, their work and what the year […]
NHS Digital and techUk partnership to focus on 6 key themes
NHS Digital and techUK have outlined their view on the future challenges they need to tackle to accelerate their partnership and they have agreed six main areas to focus on in 2018. These include working with small and medium enterprises so that they might share in NHS and social care business […]
VitalityHealth launches new Vitality GP service
VitalityHealth has launched a new Vitality GP service which transforms the health insurer’s capability to deliver class-leading primary care benefits that members can access quickly and easily. VitalityHealth is now the only organisation offering and funding three choices of GP access for every member – face-to-face, video-call and 24-hour phone […]
