Following the news last month of Sarah Wilkinson stepping down as the chief executive of NHS Digital, Simon Bolton has now been appointed as the interim CEO. Simon joins NHS Digital from his role as Chief Information Officer at Test and Trace, a position held since August 2020. Prior to this role, […]
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Coordinate My Care goes live with National Record Locator
Coordinate My Care (CMC), a digital urgent care planning service, has gone live with integration with the NHS National Record Locator (NRL), connecting 72,000 Londoners with CMC plans to services across England. The move means that when patients with existing CMC urgent care plans travel across the country, emergency services […]
Pharmatech AI company lands investment of up to $525M
Exscientia, a pharmatech company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to design patient-based drugs, has announced the completion of a $225 million Series D funding round – with an additional $300 million equity commitment available. The company uses AI in a number of ways across its platform – from target identification […]
East Sussex Healthcare starts journey to refresh 5-year digital strategy
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the trusts selected in the latest Digital Aspirant programme, has launched a campaign across its community to support the development of its five-year digital strategy. In March 2021, 32 trusts joined the latest phase of the NHS Digital Aspirant initiative, with seven to receive […]
Former NHS England Deputy Chief Exec joins medical translation software company
Written Medicine – which provides translation software for pharmacies and other healthcare settings across the UK – has announced that Matthew Swindells, a former NHS England Deputy Chief Executive and National Director of Operations and Information, has joined the company as an Advisor. According to Written Medicine, Matthew will work […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ select new AI speech recognition tech for integration
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Nuance Dragon Medical One’s AI-powered speech recognition technology for integration into its Epic electronic health record (EHR). The technology will form part of the trust’s Apollo Programme – a digital transformation strategy set to reshape the way in which the trust […]
HTN Awards 2021, further judges announced!
HTN is delighted to announce a further group of confirmed judges to support the Health Tech Awards 2021. The expert judging panel this year includes professionals from NHS England, Health Education England, to Whittington Health NHS Trust, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital. We welcome a range of […]
Internship programme aims to tackle underrepresentation of Black people in STEM
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is launching an internship programme this summer, as part of its response to the heavy underrepresentation of Black people in the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) community. Through partnerships with the UK Health Data Research Alliance (HDR Alliance) and the 10,000 Black Interns […]
South 4 Pathology Partnership picks laboratory information management system
A new pathology network – featuring labs at four trusts in Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, and Swindon – has chosen the CliniSys WinPath Enterprise laboratory information management system (LIMS) to support its joined-up working and build a platform for innovation. The South 4 Pathology Partnership, which was formed in 2018 […]
News in brief: HDR UK launches new search tool, NHS COVID cases app marks milestone
AI has been front and centre for many health tech news stories over the past few days – from the announcement of Faculty’s new partnership with the NHS, through to a diagnostic technique being developed for bowel cancer by researchers in Leeds. Here at HTN, we’ve also been recapping recent […]
