Black Country and West Birmingham CCG has launched a new initiative to provide additional support for carers to make use of digital health tools. Working with digital transformation company, Healthwave, who specialise in supporting the uptake of digital tools and inclusion with services, the programme has been developed to support carers […]
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In focus: Humber, Coast & Vale ICS releases digital inclusion core principles
Humber, Coast & Vale Integrated Health and Care Partnership has created and released its own set of ‘Digital Inclusion Core Principles’. The short guide is intended to support organisations and health providers within the Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System (ICS), with a checklist to help them when implementing […]
NICE to allow more ‘flexibility’ in evaluation of new health technologies
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) board has approved a number of changes to how medicines and health technologies are evaluated for use in the NHS. The move is expected to signal ‘commitment to greater flexibility’ in the organisation’s evaluation of promising new health technologies and aims […]
News in Brief: Airedale’s digital milestone, BCHC Shared Care Records, DHLondon Accelerator announced
From Shared Care Records developments in Birmingham, through to digital health milestones in Airedale, and international industry announcements – HTN reports on the heartbeat of health technology news, throughout the sector. Our latest news in brief covers AI cancer tools, DigitalHealth.London’s new Accelerator intake, and much more. Dive into to […]
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s trials VR tech
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is trialing virtual reality (VR) technology, with a view to helping reduce anxiety during medical procedures for young people and children. By introducing VR, the trust hopes it will play a role to help make injections ‘less scary’ for patients, and help to […]
Imperial to create heat map of loneliness in London
Imperial College London’s School of Public Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Hammersmith and Fulham Council, are working together on a new project to map loneliness in London. The aim of the work is to ‘highlight the scale of the issue’ and to help better target services. Imperial is […]
HTN Now Awards 2022 – meet the winners!
HTN Now Awards – meet the winners After another fantastic evening at the HTN Now Awards 2022, we wrap up the celebrations by sharing a feature all about the winners. Earlier today, we announced the winning and highly commended entries across all 10 of our awards categories, sharing in the […]
Video: EPR implementations – five critical paths and a cutover
Ideal Health helped us to get our first full-length HTN Now event of the year underway by presenting a live webcast on Electronic Patient Record (EPR) implementations. Hosted by Andi Taylor, EPR Implementation Programme Director and Consultant, the session – entitled ‘five critical paths and a cutover’ – covered a […]
NHSX publishes standards roadmap for interoperability and care records
NHSX has revealed plans to develop and publish a new ‘standards roadmap’ for care record and interoperability standards in England. According to the organisation, the roadmap is set to provide support and include access to a ‘system-wide overview’ of the standards proposed, as well as opportunities to engage with the […]
HTN welcomes CareFlow Medicines Management as HTN Now headline sponsor
HTN is delighted to welcome CareFlow Medicines Management as headline sponsor of HTN Now 2022. HTN Now, a unique online event series, takes place throughout the year to bring together the health tech community and share, discuss and collaborate on a variety of topics focused on health technology for the […]
