YouTube has announced plans to introduce new features that will platform authoritative health information from trusted sources and help users to locate and identify reliable content. Aimed at the US audience for now, Dr Garth Graham, the Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships for YouTube, detailed […]
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Feature: Eva Health Technologies’ eVacc platform piloted to support Phase 3 NHS vaccine workflows
Ahead of Eva Health Technologies’ live talk at the HTN Digital Primary Care event on 4 August 2021, we decided to find out more about the company, its CEO, and eVacc, the health tech provider’s new co-admin, point-of-care vaccination platform. Eva Health will be joining us in August to discuss […]
Chelsea and Westminster’s Dr Ryan Dhunnookchand: app building to up-skill staff on a coronavirus ward
Last week, HTN covered the nationwide release of the free-to-use Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff that have been redeployed from their regular roles to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-designed and developed by Imagineear Health and a team from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (which includes both Chelsea and […]
Google Cloud to introduce Healthcare Data Engine for interoperability
Google Cloud has announced the private preview of a new solution – called the Healthcare Data Engine – which it says will enable interoperability by ‘harmonising’ longitudinal patient records to improve care, research, and procedures. Described as an ‘end-to-end solution for healthcare and life sciences organisations’ which brings together data, […]
News in brief: menopause app piloted for staff at NHS trust, HSBC backs GenesisCare cancer tech, first Turing AI research fellows
August has arrived, which means only one thing for us at HTN – it’s time for our first ever Digital Primary Care Conference. Find out more about the agenda for Wednesday – which features keynotes from Dr Nikki Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement, and […]
Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership picks openEHR platform
Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership has chosen an openEHR platform for its regional medicines record. After being awarded the contract, Better will support the Partnership in delivering the record to a population of 1.8 million, through both its openEHR platform and Better Meds software. The aim is […]
Sunderland Royal Hospital announces GDE achievement
Sunderland Royal Hospital, part of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT), has announced it has met all the requirements of the national Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme. Andy Hart, Director of Information Management and Technology at the trust, will receive the official GDE accreditation, a ‘hallmark of excellence’ […]
NHS Digital commits to new workforce diversity targets
NHS Digital has set itself a number of new targets to improve the diversity of its workforce at all levels, in areas such as tech and data, and particularly in senior roles. According to the organisation, around one in five NHS staff are from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Oxford Health’s draft digital healthcare strategy
Our latest Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, has focused on NHS trusts’ newest strategies and ideas for implementing and embedding digital technologies. In part one, we examined Wirral University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s five-year plan for the next stage of their journey, before turning to Northern Lincolnshire and […]
News in brief: FDB inks Health and Social Care Northern Ireland deal, Anglia trust lab goes fully digital, healthy ageing product funding
Another week, another Olympian effort from health tech innovators across the UK and beyond. Over the past seven days we’ve reported on the Acute COVID app for redeployed NHS staff, NHSX’s call for healthcare professionals to submit challenges, and the Care and Health Information Exchange’s migration to Orion Health. We’ve […]
