States of Guernsey Health and Social Care has named the suppliers for its new electronic patient record system, which forms part of its ‘My eHealth Record’ transformation plans. The programme, My eHealth Record, aims to create one electronic view of each patient, with an ultimate aim to modernise its health and social care […]
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CCube Solutions talk standards, patient portals and gleaning value from unstructured information
Ahead of the Health Tech Awards 2021 ceremony, HTN caught up with Vijay Magon, Managing Director at CCube Solutions – the headline sponsor for the awards programme – to talk data standards, patient facing tools and how to extract value from unstructured information… We began our chat by asking Vijay […]
‘Green Guide for Diagnostic Imaging’ launches
Feature by Canon Medical: Practical advice & guidance curated for radiology departments to help make progressive steps towards the NHS net-zero carbon emissions targets A five-point guide for the UK diagnostic imaging community, providing practical advice to start working towards meeting the aims of the NHS’ net-zero carbon targets by […]
News in brief: Dorset Care Record RPA, South Tees Hospitals, patient document software tender, mental health app launched
Welcome to our latest news in brief! During a busy week where the HTN team is live for HTN Now, there’s still lots happening elsewhere in the world of health tech. In this edition, we share a project using digital workers to perform manual tasks, a new mental health app […]
New Leeds Centre for HealthTech Innovation announced
The University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) have linked up to launch a new centre for the development of health technology. The Leeds Centre for HealthTech Innovation is one of three initiatives that have been announced to support the development of novel ideas ‘from the point […]
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland updates plans for its £300m Encompass programme
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland has provided an update on its ‘Encompass’ programme, a £300m 10-year work-stream to deliver a new electronic patient record for five trusts. The contract for the programme was signed in June 2020 to implement the Epic electronic patient record, develop its infrastructure and create up […]
Barts Health implements new app to support people with cognitive impairment
Barts Health NHS Trust, UCLPartners and Maldaba have rolled-out a new app to support people with cognitive impairment, specifically adults with a learning disability. The ‘Hear Me Now’ app and content-sharing remote service can be used to record information such as text, photo, audio, or video which is then stored in ‘boxes’ in the […]
Alder Hey enters co-partnership with NeedleSmart
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has entered into a co-development partnership with NeedleSmart, a specialist solution to needle safety and closed loop data. The partnership will see the development of the company’s hardware and data solutions accelerated, aiming to bring forward the solutions into healthcare. Consisting of three phases, […]
AccuRx raises £27.5 million
AccuRx, a health-tech company focused on ‘bringing together everyone involved in a patient’s care’ has raised £27.5 million in Series B funding. The company announced the news this week, with plans for the funding to be used to ‘build a patient-centred communication platform for the healthcare system’. Supported by Lakestar, a […]
4 days of health tech, HTN Now takes place next week
We’re only a few days away from the next edition in the HTN Health Tech for the Now series, when we welcome a fantastic group of people joining us to share their learnings and advice, as we delve into their digital programmes. There’s still time to register, with tickets free […]
