BMI Healthcare and Livi have announced a new partnership to provide digital GP consultations for non-critical appointments. BMI, the provider of private healthcare with more than 50 hospitals and facilities, is to use the digital platform from Livi to provide greater access to treatment for its patients. Patients will be […]
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Digital symptom tracker monitoring COVID-19 in Greater Manchester care homes
Over 130 care homes in Greater Manchester are using a digital symptom tracker to monitor COVID-19. It was implemented through Health Innovation Manchester (HInM), a partnership including the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Tameside Council, local GPs and the tech […]
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare announces partnership with digital cancer platform
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, a provider of healthcare services, is now working in partnership with the digital cancer care platform, Careology. It’s hoped this new working relationship will help change how cancer care is delivered – by encouraging and enabling patients, clinicians and carers to better manage remote care. Part of […]
New E-Rostering software to help frontline medics launched
Locums Nest, the provider of a digital workforce solution, has launched a new tool called “Locum’s Nest Rota” that aims to provide scheduling support for frontline medics. The launch follows news from last month, when the Department of Health and Social Care announced £7.5 million in funding to support digital shift scheduling across 38 NHS trusts. This […]
Vine Health awarded £1million funding
Vine Health, the company behind a mobile app to support cancer patients, has been awarded a million-pound grant from Innovate UK to help deliver their cancer treatment companion app to four NHS Trusts. The NHS Trusts will take part in four randomised controlled trials with the hope to generate robust evidence that the app will support cancer […]
NHS Lothian pilots ‘how was your day’ employee wellbeing app
Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office has part-funded a new ‘how was your day?’ app, which is being tested with NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Lothian, NHS Tayside, the University of Aberdeen and the University of St Andrews. The workplace engagement start-up, called Trickle, launched in 2018 and focuses on developing apps […]
NHSX supports smartphone tech for detecting early kidney disease
A smartphone app that utilises AI is set to help NHS patients transmit test results to GPs within ‘minutes’. The ‘pioneering’ technology from Healthy.io – called CKD Early Detection Service – transforms a smartphone camera into a ‘clinical-grade tool’ that detects early kidney disease. The tech is part of the […]
Surrey and Borders FT partner with ORCHA to launch new app library
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SABP) has launched a new app library, which focuses on people’s mental health and wellbeing. The new digital service, created in in partnership with ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps), aims to enable quicker and easier access to […]
Team of doctors launch app to support hospital cardiac arrests
A team of doctors have launched a new app, called iALS, to act as a support tool for trained Adult Advanced Life Support (ALS) providers. The app has been designed and developed by clinicians who are regularly involved in cardiac arrest, to help healthcare professionals in the situation, which the […]
Cardiff Uni announces ‘pioneering’ support app for fertility struggles
Cardiff University has developed what it calls a ‘pioneering research-based app’ to provide support and advice for people who are unable to fulfil their wish to have children. The app – MyJourney – is from the University’s Fertility Studies Research Group at the School of Psychology. Created in collaboration with […]
