Earlier this year, Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) partnered with digital pioneer Haltian in order to pilot their Empathic Building Smart Hospital solution, an innovative platform using data-driven insights to improve productivity and efficiency. The hospital is currently running a pilot within their Cancer Centre, which sees the Empathic Building solution […]
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Industry View: healthcare professionals react to the new digital health plan
Last week at HTN we focused on the Department of Health and Social Care’s new digital health plan. You can read our summary of the plan here. We wanted to know what healthcare experts thought of the plan, so we sent out a call for comment to share some of […]
NHS England opens Adoption Fund for ICSs
NHS England has opened the latest round of its Adoption Fund to support integrated care systems (ICS) introduce or scale digital innovations that support people at home. Across three clinical work workstreams including gastroenterology, musculoskeletal and respiratory, ICSs can bid for up to £200,000 per ICS, per priority area. Projects must […]
NHS Scotland awards £40m national laboratory system framework
NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £40 million contract to Citadel Health to establish a framework for a laboratory information management system for all NHS health boards in Scotland. The 10-year framework agreement will provide laboratory information management services for 11 NHS health boards, allowing up to 5 years for all health […]
East Kent Hospitals surgeons use 3D printed models to improve urology patient care
Surgeons at East Kent Hospitals are investigating ways to improve patient outcomes by using 3D printed models and advanced image augmentation of body parts. The tools being tested are said to be able to show the location of tumours such as prostate cancer, blood vessels and other structures, with urology […]
Great Ormond Street launches new artificial intelligence projects
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has launched two new projects through its Data Research, Innovation and Virtual Environments (DRIVE) unit. Two fellows from Faculty, an artificial intelligence company, have joined GOSH to explore how datasets can accelerate research and improve outcomes for patients. Doctor Omar Jahangir will be working on […]
Health Technology Wales search for new digital solutions
Health Technology Wales, a national body within NHS Wales to support partner collaboration, has commenced a ‘digital open topic call’ to identify new digital health technologies for Wales to solve current health and care challenges. They are inviting different professionals from health and social care, technology developers and members of […]
Sussex ICS adopts new data tool to support bowel cancer screening
Sussex Integrated Care System (ICS) has worked with South, Central and West (SCW) to adopt a new tool to support its bowel screening programme. The ICS has been working with SCW’s geospatial team on a web application to identify hotspots of low bowel screening uptake and high cancer positivity rates within […]
Newcastle Hospitals digital initiative tackles waiting lists, audiology team new digital pathway
Digital transformation is happening across Newcastle Hospitals, with an initiative to tackle waiting lists, a virtual trial for patients with irritable bowel syndrome, and a digital pathway for the audiology team. The trust’s strategy, taking them through to 2024, states that they are “committed to becoming a fully digitally enabled […]
Roslin Institute develops heart attack prediction model from data
The Roslin Institute, a research centre at the University of Edinburgh, has developed a model to predict heart attack risk by studying retinal images of Biobank data from participants who experienced a heart attack. Scientists calculated the model using branching patterns of retinal blood vessels, using data from the UK […]
