A digital platform for children and young people with epilepsy is to go live in December 2021, through a partnership with the Young Epilepsy Charity and health tech supplier Patients Know Best (PKB). The organisations have partnered to deliver a national solution which can support children and young people with […]
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Researchers launch AI prostate cancer study
A new research study has launched to progress how artificial intelligence technologies can help predict whether prostate cancer may return for patients following treatment. Dr Anna Wilkins and Dr Erik Sahai, along with Prostate Cancer Research and partners, launched the study in June 2021, to explore whether computer modelling of cell migration […]
James Paget Hospitals’ highlights digital vision
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Trust (JPUH) has released a refreshed clinical strategy for 2021-2026, which includes its digital plan and focus. The trust says that the vision for its revamped strategy is “underpinned by four enabling strategies” identified by the trust through specialty workshops considered to have the most […]
NHSX and NHS Digital to merge into NHS England – the view so far
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed plans for NHSX and NHS Digital to be merged into NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I), as part of a wider shake up to reform digital transformation and workforce planning in the NHS. Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision […]
National consultation launched to draft 111 referral standard
A national survey has opened to gather feedback to support the development of a new 111 referral standard. The draft standard is said to be based on a project from 2018 that focused on urgent care information flows, and aims to review and develop a new standard to include “new information from […]
Agenda released for HTN Now AI, Analytics and Data
Join HTN and colleagues on 30 November for the second in the HTN Now Focus series – five one-day online events to include: Supporting Digital Integrated Care Systems; AI, Analytics and Data; Electronic Patient Records; Digital Strategy, Transformation and Change; and Digital Mental Health. For the AI, Analytics and Data edition, we’ll explore an […]
Nervecentre shares presentation on cloud and EPR software as a service
Nervecentre, an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) software supplier to the NHS, recently shared a presentation on the topic of its ‘EPR as a service’, sharing how trusts can use the company’s fully-integrated platform as a cloud SaaS [software as a service] model. Delivering the live webcast was a panel comprised […]
Innovations in focus: all 35 winners of NHSX’s new Adoption Fund
HTN recently covered the announcement of NHSX’s new Adoption Fund winners. The 35 successful innovations, and the teams behind them, will each receive a share of the £6.5 million funding pot. Spread out across five areas – gastroenterology, musculoskeletal, perioperative, cardiology and cardiac surgery pathways, and digital inclusion – the […]
Wales awards £2 million tender for digital clinical assessments and interventions
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has announced the intention to award a £2 million contract to Healois, an online provider of specialist child and young person’s mental health services. The body is to award the contract for CAMHS clinical assessments and interventions via the company’s digital platform, to help increase capacity […]
Remote monitoring pilots launched in North East Lincolnshire care homes
North East Lincolnshire will benefit from remote monitoring pilot programmes in its care homes, with Docobo technology set to be trialled across a number of sites. Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (YHAHSN) has been working, on behalf of NHSX, with the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care […]
