Staffordshire University is set to officially launch its £5.8 million Centre for Health Innovation, a simulated learning environment that can be used to train health and social care students and upskill NHS staff, in October 2021. The high-tech learning and teaching spaces feature a combination of immersive, virtual and augmented […]
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News in brief: Liverpool Women’s Hospital receives robotic help, Manchester innovation fund announces winners
Top news stories covered by HTN this week include the publication of Wales’ new digital strategy, the launch of a new national digital midwife role and the celebration of digital stars at the Our Health Heroes awards. But there’s been even more going on across the health tech sector – […]
Wales to invest over £8.5m in new national digital eye care patient record
Wales is set to invest over £8.5 million in its first national Electronic Patient Record and digital Electronic Referral system for eye care. As part of wider plans surrounding Wales’ future approach to optometry services, the nation is focusing on preventative measures, along with management and treatment by primary care […]
Digital innovation and online COVID learning celebrated at Our Health Heroes
Our Health Heroes, the health awards led by Skills for Health, celebrated nationwide achievements at their fifth awards ceremony last night. It took place on the National Day of Reflection, which marked a year since the first UK COVID-19 lockdown. Award winners included many ‘unsung heroes’ in the healthcare sector, […]
New tech to detect COVID mutations being trialled by UK Gov
The UK Government is trialling new technology to help ‘rapidly detect’ COVID mutations and shorten the time between identification and tracing. Taking place in NHS Test and Trace laboratories, the technology – called ‘genotype assay testing’ – could help with: Identifying mutations Rapid turnaround times to help trace contacts of […]
UCLH reflects on becoming a digitally integrated hospital
University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust recently asked its staff to reflect on the trust’s digital integration journey over the past two years. UCLH chose the Epic electronic health record (EHR) in 2017 following business case approval, and went live with the system in 2019. Staff chose to […]
Six new SME innovation projects awarded funding
Innovation hub Enterprise East (HEE) has announced that the MedTech NAVIGATOR Innovation Grant Scheme will provide another six SMEs with funding. Supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the NAVIGATOR programme has awarded funding to the following: Tekihealth Solutions NS Innovations Flush-Tech Yourgene Health Tangi0 Anidium. The projects involved […]
New app launched to support eye test screening at home across Cambridgeshire
A new app has been launched to support eye test screening at home for children across Cambridgeshire. Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has collaborated with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Healthy Child programme screening team, Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council to launch the app for children and adults who may have missed eye screening during restrictions […]
Community diagnostic centres to mental health – tech leaders tell us their biggest challenges
Three months into the year seemed like an appropriate time to catch up with health tech industry leaders, to find out about what they believe are the biggest current challenges facing healthcare. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic continues – but with some reason for optimism on that front, we asked […]
“The core goal is to make our staff more efficient” – Darren Atkins of the Royal Free talks RPA
Darren Atkins, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in Automation at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, recently held court in a UCLPartners Innovation Network Meeting, presenting his team’s work in RPA (robotic process automation). In a session screened on YouTube, entitled ‘NHS Robotic process automation’, Darren shared case studies and […]
