We’re one week into the New Year, so now seems like the perfect time to catch up and find out what everyone’s health tech priorities are for 2021. We’ve already taken an in-depth look back at 2020. And had the professionals make their health tech predictions for 2021, too. But […]
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Feature: the rise of remote monitoring – what’s next?
The use of remote monitoring technologies – innovations that allow symptoms to be managed and care to be provided at distance, outside of traditional hospital settings – has surged during the past year. Healthcare providers are increasingly opting for digital ways of working, to protect those at higher risk and […]
Feature: Digital Social Care
In our latest feature, we speak with Julie O’Connor, Head of Product Management, and Julie Tyas, Senior Business Application Consultant at Servelec, to explore some of their digital programmes supporting social care services. What technology have you implemented in the social care space over the past 6 months? Julie O’Connor: […]
One digital front door; revitalise your weight loss programme with ShapeUp4Life
By Solutions 4 Health The association between excess weight and poor outcomes with COVID-19 has led to even greater pressure on public health organisations to deliver successful weight loss programmes; ShapeUp4Life presents an effective solution to this long-standing problem, and now offers digital programmes to support services. The well-established relationship […]
Case Study: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust adopts MyPorter
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has adopted a digital solution, MyPorter, to support porter requests and task management to provide efficiencies. The challenge Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s existing tracking system for its Portering Department had begun to experience failures, and as an older system it no longer received full technical support. […]
FHIR standards in healthcare: an interview with Lyniate
In this interview feature, Matt White speaks with John Mitchell, Implementation Consultant at Lyniate, and James Hardacre, Senior Implementation Consultant specialising in Rhapsody by Lyniate, to explore and discuss FHIR standards. Can you briefly take me through the background to FHIR and HL7? James: I used to be heavily focused […]
The new technologies supporting stop smoking services
By Solutions for Health While COVID-19 brings challenges for stop smoking services, online support and an AI-powered robo-coach mean there’s digital support to help people kick the habit. Smokers are up to fourteen times more likely to have serious complications from COVID-19 than non-smokers according to recent research in China. […]
HTN Feature: Digital Mental Health
In a two part feature we explore some of the programmes supporting mental health digitisation. We discuss interoperability, the challenges faced, successes and what is coming up on the horizon. In this part one of the feature we speak with Steve Wightman, MD of Healthcare, and Garry McCord, Chief Strategy […]
Canon Medical CT Scan units deployed by NHS England in response to COVID-19 pandemic
The first NHS hospitals are receiving Canon Medical Systems relocatable CT scan units from NHS England under its COVID-19 recovery plan. The programme is aimed to help Trusts catch up on delayed outpatient CT scans from the Coronavirus lockdown period, and boost imaging capacity to see greater number of patients […]
HTN Voice: Reducing surgical backlogs and harm in a second surge
Reducing surgical backlogs and harm in a second surge by Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash 5 years, 10 million, burnout, avalanche of harm. These are the words which many of my senior colleagues across health systems have been using as part of their growing concerns as to where healthcare […]
