For our latest industry view piece, we posed three questions to our health tech audience: where in healthcare do you expect the most digital progress to be made? Does your expectation match your hope – do you think the focus will be on the areas that need it the most? If you […]
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East Suffolk and North Essex launches robotic knee surgery app
Patients undergoing robotic knee surgery at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, are now being offered additional support through a specialist phone app. Medical technology company Smith+Nephew partnered with digital health experts Huma in order to create the app, with the aim of tailoring […]
Frontiers study explores user engagement in mobile apps for people living with schizophrenia
A study entitled ‘User engagement in mobile apps for people with schizophrenia: A scoping review’ has been published in Frontiers, aiming to better understand the factors and strategies that may encourage user engagement and facilitate extended use of apps for people living with schizophrenia. Authors Raquel Simões de Almeida and […]
Funding awarded to innovations that support stroke patients
Seven innovations that support stroke patients have been awarded a share of £5 million, through a funding programme led by The Accelerated Access Collaborative and SBRI Healthcare, in collaboration with the Stroke Association. The programme focuses on using digital solutions to address challenges around pre-hospital diagnosis, rehabilitation, and life after stroke. Initially funding […]
16 healthcare data research programmes launched
Health Data Research UK (HDR) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are launching research projects to examine how winter pressures can be eased by the NHS. By using data-driven approaches, the research aims to identify pressures, understand the causes and develop ways to overcome and avoid […]
Government publishes draft guidance on NHS protection of patient data
The Department of Health and Social Care has published draft statutory guidance for NHS England with regards to how it should exercise statutory functions intended for transfer from NHS Digital. The draft regulations, named ‘Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023’, have […]
Yorkshire and Humber AHSN shares eight innovators taking part in Propel@YH Boot Camp
The Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) has announced that eight innovators from the Nordic region are to be part of the second international Propel@YH Boot Camp. Propel@YH Boot Camp, run by Yorkshire and Humber AHSN, seeks to bring health innovations from around the world into the UK, […]
Locala Health and Wellbeing partners with Inhealthcare to support childhood immunisation
Locala Health and Wellbeing has formed a partnership with Inhealthcare to support its vaccination programmes across Kirklees in West Yorkshire, through which the consent process for childhood immunisation has been digitised. Where immunisation teams would previously print consent forms, deliver them to schools across the area, collect completed forms and […]
Health tech start-up Inicio Health launches first product
Inicio Health, a health tech start-up founded by James Davis, former Royal Free London chief innovation officer, and Amanda Sparkes, former Royal Free London divisional director of operations and nursing, has launched its first product. The company is on a mission to deliver “clinically led, patient centred, innovatively delivered, digital products for health” and […]
West Yorkshire ICS to expand virtual wards
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has opened a tender opportunity to expand its remote monitoring programmes across the region. Virtual wards are currently in place across Leeds, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield, Bradford District and Craven, however the ICS “plans to expand the bed base” and “deliver both step-up and step-down pathways that […]
