Feature by Highland Marketing Digitising hospitals was the focus of NHS IT policy for twenty years. The job is still unfinished: so what are the options for trusts – and the integrated care systems that are planned to take over health tech strategy and funding next April? The Highland Marketing […]
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Digital mental health tech raises £39 million
Ieso Digital has announced that it has secured £39 million in Series B financing, to develop its evidence-based digital therapeutics solutions. The company said the funding will be used to “develop autonomous therapy systems” and hoped to “match the standards of human care delivery”. In the announcement, the company highlighted […]
National digital record for children and young people with epilepsy to launch
A digital platform for children and young people with epilepsy is to go live in December 2021, through a partnership with the Young Epilepsy Charity and health tech supplier Patients Know Best (PKB). The organisations have partnered to deliver a national solution which can support children and young people with […]
Researchers launch AI prostate cancer study
A new research study has launched to progress how artificial intelligence technologies can help predict whether prostate cancer may return for patients following treatment. Dr Anna Wilkins and Dr Erik Sahai, along with Prostate Cancer Research and partners, launched the study in June 2021, to explore whether computer modelling of cell migration […]
National consultation launched to draft 111 referral standard
A national survey has opened to gather feedback to support the development of a new 111 referral standard. The draft standard is said to be based on a project from 2018 that focused on urgent care information flows, and aims to review and develop a new standard to include “new information from […]
Agenda released for HTN Now AI, Analytics and Data
Join HTN and colleagues on 30 November for the second in the HTN Now Focus series – five one-day online events to include: Supporting Digital Integrated Care Systems; AI, Analytics and Data; Electronic Patient Records; Digital Strategy, Transformation and Change; and Digital Mental Health. For the AI, Analytics and Data edition, we’ll explore an […]
Video: North East and North Cumbria ICS shares its digital care programme and approach
In October, for HTN Now Focus, our online event for Integrated Care Systems, HTN welcomed Dr Mark Dornan, GP and co-chair at Newcastle Gateshead CCG and SRO for Digital Care Programmes at North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS), to the virtual stage. Dr Dornan shared North East […]
Wales awards £2 million tender for digital clinical assessments and interventions
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has announced the intention to award a £2 million contract to Healois, an online provider of specialist child and young person’s mental health services. The body is to award the contract for CAMHS clinical assessments and interventions via the company’s digital platform, to help increase capacity […]
News in brief: ‘DadPad’ app available, RCN’s online diabetes resource, new platform for Nottingham
There’s been plenty of health tech news to share across the last seven days, including updates in the world of data and numerous industry developments. Highlights include the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust selecting the Agilisys platform to develop its analytics capabilities, while Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has signed up […]
University Hospitals of North Midlands publish analysis used to develop prediction tool
Researchers from the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and Staffordshire University, have published a new report into their analysis of hospital admission data used to develop a predictive tool. The paper, entitled: ‘A predictive model for identifying patients at risk of delayed transfer of care: a retrospective, cross-sectional […]
