Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) is using digital letters for its Outpatients services, with Inpatient letters due to go live in early 2022. The move means that patients are able to view appointment letters on their smartphones – providing the ability to confirm, cancel or rebook appointments […]
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Scan service partners with AI specialist to launch pregnancy wellbeing app
Window to the Womb, a provider of baby scan services, has linked up with BlueSkeye AI to launch Avocado, a new pregnancy wellbeing app. Avocado App uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to support mood management and wellbeing throughout pregnancy. The technology will be rolled-out throughout Window to the Womb’s clinics, […]
NHS England publishes digital priorities for 2022/23
NHS England has published its digital priorities for the next 12 months, as part of a wider release on operational planning guidance across a number of areas. Entitled ‘2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance’, the 40-page document was released on 24 December 2021 and sets out NHS objectives for the next […]
Interview Series: Alcidion’s team talks acquisition news and EPR implementations
It’s been a busy past 12 months for the healthcare informatics company, Alcidion, which announced its acquisition of Silverlink Software, a specialist Patient Administration System (PAS) provider which works with the NHS, at the end of 2021. The news arrived just months after the company had made another major move in […]
Health tech predictions for 2022: “there will be a big focus on up-skilling healthcare workers”
As we warmly welcome in another year, we’ve gathered industry reflections on 2021, and NHS priorities for 2022. But what about health tech predictions for the next 12 months? HTN asked the experts what they expect to happen, and what they’ll be working on, in 2022 – and we received […]
Swansea scoops £2.4 million in funding renewal for dementia data portal
Swansea University has been awarded a funding boost of £2.4 million to continue its development of a dementia data portal. The Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Data Portal – a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) – aims to be a ‘world-class data repository’ to support research into dementia. Its goal is to […]
NHS tech priorities for 2022: “digital innovation will remain front and centre”
As the New Year approaches, HTN is keen to keep to looking forwards. So, to continue our festive features series, we asked health tech professionals from, or who work alongside, the NHS, to tell us about their priorities for 2022. Find out below, where you can read about some of […]
Bowel Cancer UK launches text support service for patients
Bowel Cancer UK, has partnered with a text message micro-learning platform called GoodCourse, to develop a mobile phone text based support programme for patients. Focused on people who have recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer, it’s believed the platform would be the first text message support service of its kind […]
Health tech reflections 2021: “a year that demonstrates human resilience”
It’s December, which means it’s time for our festive features – perfect for reading with a coffee and a mince pie. Whether you celebrate the festivities, or just the holidays, this is the perfect time of year to sit back and reflect, before preparing for the year to come. We […]
Video: Ideal Health on the importance of communications in digital transformation
The Ideal Health team joined HTN Now Focus to share a live presentation about the importance of communications in delivering successful digital transformation in healthcare. Gaelle Fertil, Ideal’s Change Practice Director, and Andrea Wilson, Change Communications Consultant, shared their strategies on utilising comms to enable change. Gaelle began the session […]
