DigitalHealth.London has opened applications for its Accelerator programme, with the aim of finding the ‘next generation of digital health companies’ that can help ‘transform’ healthcare. The flagship scheme, an NHS delivered programme, is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and has provided a platform for a number of digital […]
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Video: Dr Ursula Montgomery keynote on the ‘future of general practice’ at HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Ursula Montgomery, a GP and Senior Clinical Advisor for Primary Care at NHS England and Improvement, stepped up to deliver the first HTN Digital Primary Care keynote speech on the future of general practice, in our second live talk of the day. After doing a “stock take” of the […]
Video: Dr Minal Bakhai keynote talk from HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Minal Bakhai, the Clinical Director for Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, delivered one of the two keynote speeches at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021. Focusing her talk on a ‘digital first primary care’, Dr Bakhai began by asking the audience to “take a step […]
Solent NHS Trust goes live with integrated sexual health services
Solent NHS Trust – which covers Southampton, Portsmouth and parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – recently announced the go-live of its new integrated sexual health services. It’s hoped that Solent’s Personal Health Record (PHR), which has been designed by Inform Health, will lessen the pressure facing clinics […]
YouTube to add new features that help the public identify credible, trusted health information
YouTube has announced plans to introduce new features that will platform authoritative health information from trusted sources and help users to locate and identify reliable content. Aimed at the US audience for now, Dr Garth Graham, the Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships for YouTube, detailed […]
Chelsea and Westminster’s Dr Ryan Dhunnookchand: app building to up-skill staff on a coronavirus ward
Last week, HTN covered the nationwide release of the free-to-use Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff that have been redeployed from their regular roles to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-designed and developed by Imagineear Health and a team from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (which includes both Chelsea and […]
Google Cloud to introduce Healthcare Data Engine for interoperability
Google Cloud has announced the private preview of a new solution – called the Healthcare Data Engine – which it says will enable interoperability by ‘harmonising’ longitudinal patient records to improve care, research, and procedures. Described as an ‘end-to-end solution for healthcare and life sciences organisations’ which brings together data, […]
Royal Marsden plans new Digital Health Record
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has announced a new programme to implement a Digital Health Record (DHR) to replace its electronic patient record system. Following recent business case approval from its Board, The Royal Marsden will partner with Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and begin the roll-out of […]
News in brief: menopause app piloted for staff at NHS trust, HSBC backs GenesisCare cancer tech, first Turing AI research fellows
August has arrived, which means only one thing for us at HTN – it’s time for our first ever Digital Primary Care Conference. Find out more about the agenda for Wednesday – which features keynotes from Dr Nikki Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement, and […]
East Kent Hospitals pilots Bluetooth patient tracking
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has launched a pilot of a Bluetooth patient flow solution, from technology company MYSPHERA. The company’s first installation of the technology in the UK is providing the trust with a patient tracking system, to locate patients at any moment on the trust’s surgical […]
