A pilot of two technologies, Bleepa and CareLocker, has been commissioned by Sussex Integrated Care System, to take place at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH). To act as one of the Community Diagnostic Centres Exemplar sites, Bleepa and CareLocker will be used as the digital infrastructure to facilitate […]
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Sussex Partnership NHS FT announces new digital mental health partnership
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health and learning disability services trust in the South East of England, has announced a new partnership with the charity Chasing the Stigma. The trust has selected Chasing the Stigma as its new signposting partner, intended to help direct people to mental […]
Scotland makes digital therapeutics for anxiety and insomnia available nationally
The Scottish Government has announced a new programme to introduce digital therapeutics for anxiety and insomnia available for free, nationally. All Scottish adults will now have access to Daylight and Sleepio by Big Health, which will be providing the opportunity for more than five million people in the nation to […]
ORCHA commissioned by Canada’s LifeWorks to build app library for absent employees
ORCHA – the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps – has announced a new partnership with Canada’s LifeWorks, which works with both digital and in-person wellbeing solutions. The company has commissioned ORCHA to create a health app library that will support its employees when they are absent […]
ORCHA and ICS partnership to give entire South West region access to a digital health library
ORCHA – the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps – has formed a new partnership with seven Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in the South West of the UK, to provide the region’s population with access to digital health libraries. Having previously created an app library for Our […]
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 […]
Babylon reports revenue growth of 472 per cent
Babylon Health has published its financial and operating results for the six months ending 30 June 2021, reporting revenue growth of 472 per cent and reducing its loss for the period. The company’s revenue totalled £93.1 million, up from £16.2 million for the period up to June 2020, an increase of […]
Cambridge University Hospitals video prescriptions for children, artificial pancreas tech and AI to speed up dementia diagnosis
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) has announced a range of health tech innovations, including video prescriptions of children talking about their chronic illnesses, AI to speed-up dementia diagnosis and an artificial pancreas combined with an algorithm. Clinical teams at the trust are now prescribing videos of children talking […]
Royal Free adopts app to manage liver patients in the community
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 […]
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 […]
