It’s been another busy week for the health tech community. Here at HTN we’ve picked out some of the top stories that caught our eye for our News in Brief – read on to find out what’s been happening. New data dashboard to improve colorectal cancer care A new national […]
Author: HTN
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS to introduce 16 digital pathways
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System is partnering with Spirit Health to scale-up its virtual ward programme and at-home long condition management across the region. The ICS plans to introduce 16 digital pathways, covering 1.1 million patients, using the company’s remote monitoring platform. The 16 clinical areas include: heart […]
The Walton Centre to develop chatbot to target waiting lists
The Walton Centre NHS FT and a consultancy services company have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence chatbot. Tata Consultancy Services is working with the trust to develop an automated solution to help reduce waiting times for patients and create efficiencies. Initially the chatbot will be developed as a prototype, be […]
£6.7m tender opens for digital maturity assessment
NHS England has opened a new opportunity to procure a supplier to deliver a digital maturity assessment programme. A two year contract worth up to £6.7 million, with an option to extend for a further year, will require a supplier to deliver a baseline and an enhanced assessment of NHS trusts […]
Amazon to acquire US primary care provider for £3.25bn
Amazon has announced its latest move into healthcare, through the acquisition of One Medical, a “technology-powered U.S. primary care organisation”. The deal for £3.25bn ($3.9bn) will see Amazon acquire One Medical, a subscription-based service where people can have access to doctors through in-person, digital, and virtual care services, for a monthly […]
North East telemedicine project expands for stroke patients
The North East Ambulance Service alongside the Integrated Stroke Delivery Network in the region are expanding their telemedicine project, where ambulance clinicians video call the stroke units directly. The organisations have been working together to improve emergency stroke care by implementing audio visual calls from the ambulance. The technology in place will allow […]
Wales to evaluate AI pain management tech
A funding programme in Wales is to support a pilot phase and evaluation of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered pain assessment tool. Life Sciences Hub Wales, with the Gwent Regional Partnership Board via its Technology Enabled Care Programme, will be providing funding for 12 months to pilot the PainChek tool in care environments […]
NHSE opens procurement for delivery partner to support frontline digitisation programme
NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has opened a procurement process to partner with a delivery supplier to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. The programme aims to provide national support for locally led digital transformation, with the aim of this procurement to find a delivery partner for the provision of advice, support, expertise […]
Wales to establish £100m hospital electronic prescribing framework
Digital Health and Care Wales, on behalf of NHS Health Boards across Wales, is to establish a new multi-vendor framework for electronic prescribing and medicines administration solutions. Aiming to establish a framework agreement where NHS organisations on a local basis can call off their requirements, the scope will include software […]
PRSB publishes information sharing standards to support diabetes management
The Professionals Record Standards Body (PRSB) has released new information sharing standards to support diabetes management. The development of the standards comes in response to “information about a person’s diabetes… not all being digitally shared between the different professionals involved in their care,” PRSB states. The body also notes “inconsistency in […]
