Paul Charnley, Digital Lead for Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership and a Co-Chair of the NHSX Blueprinting Steering Committee, delivered a live webcast for the HTN audience on why Blueprints are so important in helping NHS organisations to deliver digital capabilities. Speaking to us in June, as part […]
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ORCHA releases report into UK attitudes towards digital health
ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps) has released an online report that investigates attitudes to digital health across the UK and outlines what this could mean for the NHS. The report, entitled ‘Digital Health in the UK, National Attitudes and Behaviour Research’, surveyed both those […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ to use automation for matching cancer patients with clinical trials
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT and the King’s Health Partners (KHP) Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) are partnering with Inspirata, a cancer informatics and digital pathology provider, to utilise AI automation for matching patients with cancer to early phase clinical trials. KHP ECMC and Guy’s and St Thomas’ will […]
UK Health Data Research Alliance publishes new Green Paper on data use registers standards
The UK Health Data Research Alliance, an alliance of health, care and research organisations convened by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), has released a new Green Paper with recommendations for a data use registers standard. Data use registers act as public records on what data organisations have given access […]
Northamptonshire CCG introduces clinically-led online suicide prevention resource
NHS Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has introduced a new clinically-led online suicide prevention platform to support people with suicidal thoughts. The digital platform, called Togetherall, provides people with access to clinically-led resources, self-guided groups and online forums. The online community is managed by psychology clinicians and can be accessed […]
News in Brief: leadership programme for digital nurses, NHS apprenticeships, innovation ‘surgery’
Amid all of last week’s sporting action, HTN hit its own hat-tick of features with a focus on technologies supporting ICSs, including an article on the role of data and analytics, a how-to guide for choosing health tech partners, and a piece on the importance of change management. As for […]
UCL develops speech therapy smart app and AI that helps detect oesophageal cancer
University College London (UCL) has published updates on its research and development in two interesting areas of health technology – using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect a type of cancer, and a smart app that provides speech therapy for stroke sufferers. The iReadMore app from the Neurotherapeutics Group at […]
CQC outlines registration requirements for online orthodontic providers
The Care Quality Commission (the CQC) has released details of its registration requirements for providers of ‘direct-to-consumer’ orthodontic treatment, also referred to as online or remote orthodontics. Concentrating on these virtual dental services, the CQC said it wanted to “clarify the registration requirements for this type of care”. The reason […]
A closer look at the new NHSX mental health digital playbook
NHSX launched its new ‘mental health digital playbook’ earlier this week, to provide the NHS with real-world examples of how to “use digital ways of working” to “improve outcomes for patients”. Earlier this year, NHSX also released an eye care digital playbook, a resource for eye care specialists seeking to […]
Digital Health and Care Wales awards contract for clinical data repository
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), the organisation tasked with driving digital health advancement and innovation in the nation, has awarded a two-year contract to Better for a clinical data repository that will “help to transform care and treatment for patients”. Through its “open-platform approach”, patient records are shared between […]
