Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) has published its research strategy for 2024 – 2029, highlighting how “the digital explosion in healthcare provides us with much data” and outlining the use of this data to support the trust’s key strategic priorities as “core business”. On creating a culture […]
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NHS England shares clinical guidance for automation and functionality of patient portals
NHS England has released guidance highlighting principles around the automation of test result release in patient engagement portals, along with requirements around portal functionality. As per the principles, all test results should be released to an individual via digital means when they have signed up to a patient engagement portal […]
Innovate UK funds research project exploring how post-market intelligence can be utilised for safe acceleration of medical device adoption
Innovate UK has awarded funding for a project aiming to research how post-market intelligence can be better captured and utilised to safely accelerate medical device innovation and adoption, run by partners including Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, and the Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency (GMDN). […]
Health Information Bill 2024 “lays foundations” for establishment of Digital Health Record across Ireland
Ireland’s minister for health Stephen Donnelly has published the Health Information Bill 2024, designed to provide patients with increased access to their own information and providing a “clear legal basis” to establish a Digital Health Record across Ireland. Additionally, the bill sets out a “duty to share” health information for […]
Huma secures $80m and launches Shopify style AI platform for digital healthcare industry
Global healthcare AI company Huma Therapeutic Limited has completed a Series D funding round with financing of over $80 million and launched the Huma Cloud Platform, designed to help accelerate the adoption of digital and AI across care and research. The Huma Cloud Platform is described as “a technology ecosystem […]
King’s Speech 2024 outlines planned bills around cyber security and smart data
The King’s Speech 2024 highlights plans for a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, set to expand regulatory remits to provide protection to a higher number of digital services; and a Digital Information and Smart Data Bill, aiming to ensure the power of data is utilised to support growth, the government, […]
Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative secures £88m in funding for EPR programme
Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative has shared an update on plans to implement a shared EPR across Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, James Paget University Hospitals, and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, with the full business case now approved. The EPR programme is backed by […]
University of Huddersfield develops secure threat intelligence sharing platform to protect AI tools from cyber attacks
A team from the University of Huddersfield is working on the development of a secure threat intelligence sharing platform with the aim of helping to protect AI-enabled diagnostic tools from cyber attacks. Dr Faisal Jamil, lecturer in computing within the university’s centre for autonomous and intelligence systems, is leading the […]
Telehealth provider chosen for digital prehab trial in Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset
University Hospitals Plymouth has signed a contract with Kent-based SME, QuestPrehab, for year-long trial of digital prehabilitation (prehab) services for patients on the liver transplant list across Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset. Patients participating in the trial will have the ability to access an individualised programme spanning physical activity support, anxiety […]
Leeds Teaching Hospital partners with Newton’s Tree to scale evaluation and implementation of AI
A partnership has been announced between Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and health tech startup Newton’s Tree which will see the startup’s enterprise AI platform deployed across the trust, with the aim of supporting Leeds Teaching Hospitals to “rapidly scale” its ability to evaluate and implement artificial intelligence applications. The […]
