Following inspection, Livi has announce it’s become first digital healthcare provider to be rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), England’s independent health and adult social care regulator. Livi, which was established in 2018, enables patients to see GPs and healthcare professionals via a video through their smartphone or […]
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Video: Effective comms and opportunities to save clinician time
Time is a precious resource, particularly for frontline clinicians – so how can we save some for them? This was the theme of our lunchtime webcast on the third day of HTN Now June 2021. To discuss this, and the different types of communications that take place within hospitals and […]
NHS set to invest £52 million in fast-tracking online maternity records
Chief Nursing Officer for England, Ruth May, has announced that the NHS will invest £52 million to help speed-up the implementation of online maternity records. The investment aims to ensure that all women can have access to their maternity notes and information via either a smartphone or other device, by […]
Data and digital standards forms part of NHSE Integrated Care Systems design framework
NHS England has published a design framework for NHS leaders and organisations, to provide guidance and operational commitments from April 2022 – with a section also dedicated specifically to digital and data. Published 16 June, the document sets out the next steps for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to ‘seize opportunities […]
£36 million funding for AI technologies
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a £36 million increase in funding for AI technology-based healthcare services and products. 38 projects will be awarded funding and have been backed by NHSX and Accelerated Access Collaborative (ACC); in total 336 projects submitted applications to join the programme. Sir […]
Video: King’s College Hospital, redesigning patient journeys to deliver personalised care
Over the past nine or so months, staff from King’s College Hospital (KCH) NHS Foundation Trust have been working with industry partners to redesign patient journeys, deliver more personalised care experiences and improve access to services. In this live HTN Now webcast, the team explained their journey towards implementing scalable […]
NHS Digital Terminology Server goes live
The NHS Digital Terminology Server is now live. The platform supports data exchange between systems and integration of local coding systems with national and international coding languages, such as SNOMED-CT and FHIR. In September 2020, NHS Digital awarded a contract to Dedalus and CSIRO, the creators of Ontoserver, to implement […]
Video: How to lead a successful digital implementation
As the curtain came up on HTN Now June 2021, we were joined for our first live webcast by the digital healthcare company Ideal Health, to discuss how to lead a successful digital health implementation. Offering a ‘how to’ for health and care organisations, Jonah Aburrow-Jones, Director of Ideal Health, […]
Salford Care introduces new remote monitoring app for heart failure patients
Healthcare teams at Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance Group, is piloting the use of a remote monitoring system to support heart failure patients. The tech includes a smartphone app designed by connected care supplier Dignio and easy-to-use bluetooth devices. It’s currently being used by teams in […]
HTN Now June 2021: What to expect from our live webcasts
The next instalment in our health tech for the now series is almost upon us, with four days of live health tech sessions and content from a variety of digital leaders. With only five days to go until the next HTN Now event in the series, which begins on 14 […]
