The NHS Transformation Directorate’s Digital Productivity Programme has allocated £12 million in funding, with a focus on automation, real time location systems, and extended reality. The programme is also supporting ‘other productivity-improving technologies’, including surgery pods, no-code development tools, e-rostering, scheduling and care planning tools, remote monitoring, digital dictation, digital […]
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Health Tech Trends 2022: what can we learn about digital transformation from the past year?
Rounding off our latest Health Tech Trends series, through which we explore the opinions of health and care leaders on a variety of topics, we asked our respondents for their thoughts on learnings from the past year. What is the lesson on digital transformation that stands out from the past […]
Nuffield Trust publishes lessons learned to support patient engagement with digital innovations
The Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, has published a new report following an evaluation to explore the factors that support patient and staff engagement in the use of digital healthcare innovations. The paper, ‘Supporting patient engagement with digital health care innovations: Lessons from the Care City test bed’, produced […]
Solent NHS Trust supports maternal mental health through online portal
Solent NHS Trust is raising awareness of its new online portal, Family Assist Solent, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. The portal provides information for expectant and new mothers, parents and families during pregnancy, birth and beyond, including mental health guidance and support. Since Family Assist was launched in […]
NHSE publishes guidance for ICSs to introduce virtual ward model
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance to support all Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) with virtual ward programmes. The guidance, entitled “supporting information for ICS leads: enablers for success: virtual wards including hospital at home” comes in support of NHSEI asking all ICSs to extend or introduce the virtual […]
Milton Keynes University Hospital publishes updated Digital, Data and Technology Strategy
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) has published a revised Digital, Data and Technology (DDT) Strategy, which outlines their approach to utilising and embracing technology over the next four years. “We continue to build on existing mature digital foundations achieved to date,” commented Craig York, Chief Information Officer at MKUH. “This […]
Market consultation opens for digital transformation of screening services
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Transformation Directorate has launched a market consultation activity focused on the digital transformation of screening services and is asking suppliers for input. The aim of this market engagement is to make suppliers aware of potential tenders, and for NHSEI to understand from suppliers if there is […]
Health Tech Trends 2022: what do you and your organisation need to support digitisation?
So far in our Health Tech Trends series we have explored our survey respondents’ thoughts on the biggest challenges facing digital transformation, and what success in digital transformation for integrated care systems looks like. Next, we will examine what our health and care leaders have to say about the areas in […]
GE Healthcare and Hampshire Hospitals sign 10-year partnership to transform radiology services
GE Healthcare and Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) have signed a 10-year partnership agreement, aiming to ‘transform radiology services’. The partnership includes a Radiology Managed Service (RMS), which covers 120 pieces of radiology equipment and a command centre to provide staff with advanced analytics and a patient overview, to provide […]
Researchers develop AI swarm learning method for cancer predictions
Researchers led by Dr Jakob Nikolas Kather, Visiting Associate Professor at Leeds’ School of Medicine, have developed a new way of using artificial intelligence to predict cancer from patient data without ‘putting personal information at risk’. The new method uses ‘swarm learning’, a process which trains AI algorithms to detect […]
