Social care information from Durham County Council has now been made available through the health information exchange across the North East and North Cumbria. Adult social care staff can now share selected information about a person they are supporting, such as key medical and care history and details about any equipment or […]
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News in Brief: Certific invest in remote diagnostics, blood test to predict leukaemia, investment for ORCHA and more
As ever, it’s been a busy week in the health tech community – read on to find out more about some of the top stories from the past few days. Certific announces €7.4 million investment to advance remote diagnostics Certific, a platform enabling remote medical testing at scale, has announced […]
NHS England opens Adoption Fund for ICSs
NHS England has opened the latest round of its Adoption Fund to support integrated care systems (ICS) introduce or scale digital innovations that support people at home. Across three clinical work workstreams including gastroenterology, musculoskeletal and respiratory, ICSs can bid for up to £200,000 per ICS, per priority area. Projects must […]
NHS Scotland awards £40m national laboratory system framework
NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £40 million contract to Citadel Health to establish a framework for a laboratory information management system for all NHS health boards in Scotland. The 10-year framework agreement will provide laboratory information management services for 11 NHS health boards, allowing up to 5 years for all health […]
Holly Health raises £1.4m and partners with Age UK
Holly Health, a digital health coach to support behaviour change, has raised £1.4 million in funding from investors. The funding will be used to support the company’s work into sustainable behavioural change across populations and to tailor its digital health coach for healthy ageing support. Age UK Lewisham and Southwark has partnered […]
Health Technology Wales search for new digital solutions
Health Technology Wales, a national body within NHS Wales to support partner collaboration, has commenced a ‘digital open topic call’ to identify new digital health technologies for Wales to solve current health and care challenges. They are inviting different professionals from health and social care, technology developers and members of […]
Two Cheshire trusts to share electronic patient record system
Two NHS trusts in Cheshire have revealed plans to share an electronic patient record system. East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS FT plan to introduce one system, known as the Digital Clinical System (DCS), across the two trusts. The trusts have signed a contract with electronic patient record […]
Sussex ICS adopts new data tool to support bowel cancer screening
Sussex Integrated Care System (ICS) has worked with South, Central and West (SCW) to adopt a new tool to support its bowel screening programme. The ICS has been working with SCW’s geospatial team on a web application to identify hotspots of low bowel screening uptake and high cancer positivity rates within […]
Newcastle Hospitals digital initiative tackles waiting lists, audiology team new digital pathway
Digital transformation is happening across Newcastle Hospitals, with an initiative to tackle waiting lists, a virtual trial for patients with irritable bowel syndrome, and a digital pathway for the audiology team. The trust’s strategy, taking them through to 2024, states that they are “committed to becoming a fully digitally enabled […]
£20 million framework for digital flexible staff pools in primary care
NHS England has opened a £20 million framework procurement for local systems to deploy digital flexible staff pools to support clinical capacity in primary care. Suppliers who offer a digital solution are now being invited to apply to the framework, initially focusing on the deployment of GPs, to enable practices to post […]
