The Royal Free Hospital, part of The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, has gone live over the weekend with its Cerner electronic patient record. On Saturday 2 October, Royal Free Hospital went live with the system, joining two thirds of the trust – Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital […]
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NHSX announces funding for 14 projects
NHSX has announced the winners of one of its funding programmes, The Digital Health Partnership Award, naming 14 projects to receive between £100,000 – £500,000. The funding scheme has been created to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies that support patients with long-term conditions, and focuses on scaling digital […]
Report: A challenge on two fronts – safeguarding mental health in a post-COVID landscape
Feature by Orlando Agrippa, CEO & Founder of RwHealth – A Healthcare & Life Sciences Company To download the Mental Health Sector Report 2021, please click here The technology landscape mirrors the world’s struggle to regain its equilibrium post-COVID. New apps and telehealth solutions pop up in our feeds each week, […]
States of Guernsey selects EPR suppliers
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 […]
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 […]
