Nominet Trust has awarded Corporation Pop £50,000 through its seventh round of Social Tech Seed funding. The award will enable the Manchester-based digital agency to further develop their Patient’s Virtual Guide, an innovative mobile app that accompanies child patients through the hospital system, improving the patient experience by providing relevant […]
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People living with diabetes benefit from watching films online
A pilot service-evaluation study, undertaken by Swansea University, has shown that watching short health information films online helps people living with type 2 diabetes reduce their HbA1c – an established marker of diabetes control. The report, to be published in the May issue of the international journal Primary Care Diabetes, […]
Surrey to provide integrated care for over 1 million patients
Four CCGs in Surrey will start rolling-out Patients Know Best (PKB) records for integrated care for 1.03 million people across the area. All GP practices, Hospital staff of four NHS Trusts, Community and Mental Health Services health and social care staff in four Surrey CCGs will use PKB to see […]
New video clinic for cancer patients
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is piloting a telemedicine video clinic to help cancer patients. The telemedicine initiative is part of a clinical trial looking at treatment for myeloma cancer (cancer of the bone marrow.) The telemedicine pilot is running for 12 weeks and allows our patients to attend […]
Inhealthcare and Roche Diagnostics partnership brings new innovation to self-testing market
Digital health specialist Inhealthcare has developed a pioneering mobile app to bring a new level of sophistication to the home monitoring of long-term conditions by the NHS. The app, called My Inhealthcare, partners a Bluetooth-enabled self-testing device for NHS patients launched by Roche Diagnostics Ltd, the Swiss-based global healthcare company. […]
Healthcare giant Optegra partners with Doctify
Eye health giant Optegra is leading the way in healthcare by collaborating with enterprising platform, Doctify.co.uk. Optegra has announced their partnership with Doctify, a platform which revolutionises the way patients connect with medical specialists. In this digital age, healthcare must keep up with the ever-evolving tech sector – something that […]
Babylon announces £50m investment to build AI platform
UK based digital healthcare company, babylon announces circa US$60m (~£50m) investment to build the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform in healthcare, to support medical diagnosis and predict personalised health outcomes globally. babylon’s technology, available from any mobile device or connected computer worldwide, aims to put an accessible and […]
IMS MAXIMS launches vital signs mobile application
IMS MAXIMS has today launched a vital signs application at eHealth Week. Delegates at the event will be the first to use the app, designed to improve patient outcomes by enabling staff to respond to a patient’s condition from anywhere in the hospital before it becomes life-threatening. The application uses […]
Nottingham electronically screen every patient automatically for Sepsis
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is the first Trust to roll-out a real-time, mobile sepsis screening application with integrated clinical alerts to get the right intervention from the right doctor at the right time. Every adult patient across the 75 wards in Nottingham Hospitals is now being automatically e-screened […]
Highland Marketing: How can SMEs engage with the NHS?
Healthcare thrives on innovation. Small and medium sized businesses can be a great source of innovation. You would have thought the NHS would be keen to embrace their products and ideas. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. The NHS may be national, but it is not a single monolithic institution, run […]
