Royal Free London NHS FT has introduced a new tool to help manage liver cirrhosis patients in the community. The CirrhoCare® App allows clinical teams to monitor patients with liver disease and spot any potential deterioration while they are at home. Liver consultant Professor Raj Mookerjee and his team, launched a […]
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News in Brief: Barts Health Long COVID app funding, RCN update, UKRI healthier lives AI, podiatry e-learning
Another week, another opportunity to round-up all the exciting developments within the health tech space. Across the past seven days or so, HTN has covered NHSX funding updates for digital pathways, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust’s new five-year deal with Babylon Health, a new solution from Fujitsu, and a digital shift […]
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Babylon partner to deliver digital-first services
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has agreed a new five-year deal with Babylon Health to introduce its value-based care service, Babylon 360, to support patients at the trust’s nine GP practices. The trust partnered with Babylon Health in 2020, introducing its COVID-19 app and providing its AI digital care […]
Fujitsu announces cloud hosting solution for Epic EPR
Fujitsu has announced a new solution to support healthcare providers to run the Epic electronic patient record in the cloud. Utilising the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Fujitsu said it has been “created to deliver a smoother, faster electronic patient record implementation, with easier consumption of […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Central London Community Healthcare digital strategy in focus
Our Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, has focused on digital strategies over the past few weeks, highlighting plans at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, North East and North Cumbria ICS, Oxford Health NHS FT, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS FT to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT. In […]
Health Tech for the Now dates announced
Following a successful year of the HTN Health Tech for the Now series, we are pleased to announce the dates that the events will take place on over the next 12 months, and announce our new focused sessions, following the success of our first-ever digital primary care conference. Over the […]
Evergreen Life partners with Cievert to champion patient-led healthcare
Evergreen Life has announced the acquisition of Cievert, a company that focuses on making complex care pathways simple through digital tools. Evergreen Life, established by former clinical pharmacist, Stephen Critchlow, aims to put people in control of their health and wellbeing to get the care they want. Through the acquisition […]
NHS cervical screening system to go live in October
A new system to support the NHS cervical screening programme is set to go live in October 2021, NHS Digital has announced. Ahead of the launch, NHS Digital has published resources to support cervical screening teams prepare for the system, highlighting actions to be taken before the system goes live. […]
Servelec acquires Elemental Software
Servelec has announced the acquisition of Elemental Software, a company specialising in social prescribing technology. Developed by former community workers, the technology is used to help connect people with support and services in there community to help address any social issues they are facing. The platform is used by GPs, multi-disciplinary teams, housing […]
Barts Health uses AI to scan 14.2 million documents to identify patients with diabetic foot disease
Barts Health NHS Trust has utilised AI technology to scan 14.2 million documents to find and identify patients with diabetic foot disease. The analysis of the documents aimed to find patients, who otherwise might have been unknown, and therefore enable the trust to focus its resources on a particular cohort. […]
