Elsevier has acquired SciBite, a Cambridge based company specialising in extracting insight from structured and unstructured text. The solutions from the company help to extract scientific insights from content to identify key concepts such as drugs, proteins, companies, targets, and outcomes, to help understand better the complexities of life sciences data. Dr. Harland, the company […]
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Hyland acquires robotic process automation provider Another Monday
Hyland, an information management company, has acquired Another Monday, a Germany-based robotic process automation (RPA) software developer. The company supports over 19,000 organisations across the world manage their content digitally. One of their customers in the UK is Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, who adopted the OnBase […]
Interview Series: Constantin Jabarin and James Hodgin, Allscripts
In our latest interview, we speak to Dr Constantin Jabarin, chief clinical information officer, EMEA and James Hodgin, solution director, EMEA from Allscripts, the company behind the Sunrise Acute Care electronic patient record and the dbMotion information sharing platform. We talk about how the solutions have been supporting The Dudley […]
Video: Starting out as a new nurse information officer
As part of HTN Digital Week June 2020, we welcomed Helen McGuire and Ainhoa Arjona, to present their experience of their new role as Assistant Nursing Information Officers (ANIO) at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The ANIO role is to improve nursing practice through technology to optimise […]
Highland Marketing named communications partner for HTN Summit 2020
Highland Marketing, an integrated communications, PR and marketing consultancy has been appointed the communications partner to support the upcoming HTN events. The first event in the schedule, HTN Summit, takes place online on 21st and 22nd September to share experiences and learnings, and to collaborate with peers across the country. The […]
Crown Commercial Service agrees cloud deal with IBM
Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the UK Cabinet Office executive agency and trading fund, has signed a public cloud agreement with IBM. The three-year agreement hopes to accelerate the adoption of cloud services, by supporting public sector organisations access the IBM cloud tools. The announcement on the agreement stated that the NHS […]
NHS SBS launches new procurement framework
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has launched a new £500m Digital Workplace Solutions Framework for NHS and wider public sector. The framework initially includes 28 suppliers and is to run until August 2022, with the potential to extend for a further two years. The framework has an estimated value of […]
NHS 111 online hits over 30 million users in 4 months
NHS Digital has highlighted over 30 million people have used digital channels during the pandemic to seek health advice. In mid-March NHS 111 online was used more than 950,000 times a day, 95 times higher than it normally would have been used previously, and 30 million people visited NHS 111 online […]
DigitalHealth.London Digital Pioneer Fellowship opens
DigitalHealth.London has opened its Digital Pioneer Fellowship programme for applications, aiming to support professionals employed by NHS organisations in London to design and lead transformation projects. The 12 month programme is now in its third year, and aims to recruit up to 30 Fellows to focus on accelerating the pace […]
Babylon publishes research report on AI in primary care
A research paper has been published in Nature Communications by a team of Babylon scientists that has explored the use of machine learning in primary care. The paper, titled ‘Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning’, explores the use of AI, believed to be a first , […]
