NVIDIA has announced that it is building a supercomputer, Cambridge-1, to support healthcare researchers adopt artificial intelligence. King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust have been announced as founding partners of NVIDIA’s Cambridge-1. The company is leading the London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare […]
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CQC focuses on tech transformation in new draft strategy
CQC has published its developing strategy, including a focus on digital transformation and new services, ahead of a formal consultation process of the strategy in January. The document highlights some of the changes the regulator wants to make, which is said to have been largely accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. An […]
National NHS system launched to prioritise patients on waiting lists
A national bespoke system, called NHS e-Review, has been developed and launched as part of the NHS Covid Incident Recovery programme. The online system has been developed to support clinicians record the clinical priority of patients on a waiting list and to identify alternative pathways for patients if required. A […]
NHSX updates Records Management Code of Practice
NHSX has updated the Records Management Code of Practice 2020, producing a draft that is now open for wider input and feedback. The draft Records Management Code of Practice 2020 sets out how records relating to health and care should be managed, created, maintained and disposed of appropriately. It builds […]
HTN Now November registration now open
Join us on 3rd and 4th November for HTN for the Now, two days of online sessions to hear from health and care teams across the country. HTN Now is a new series ‘for the moment’ or ‘for the now’, where we curate a series of sessions to support our continued […]
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool deploys patient flow tech
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool has deployed a new patient flow system from Intouch with Health. The new £162 million centre has deployed the solution to support central outpatient flow management to allow staff to track the location and status of patients for the duration of their appointment. The platform […]
Introducing ‘HTN for the Now’
HTN is pleased to announce HTN NOW, a new brand and focus for the online sessions, webcasts, storytelling and content we deliver and share. HTN NOW is a new focus to online storytelling ‘for the moment’ or ‘for the now’, where we curate a series of sessions to support our […]
Bupa launches at home skin cancer assessment service
Bupa has launched a new at home service to support remote skin cancer assessment, working with health tech company Skin Analytics. As part of the service, Bupa customers are sent an imaging kit, which includes a smartphone and a magnifying scope to take pictures of suspicious moles or marks. The images […]
Video: Leicester’s Hospitals digital strategy and EPR programme
HTN Summit 2020 Day Two, we were joined by Paul Volkaerts, CEO at Nervecentre, Andy Carruthers, Chief Information Officer at Leicester’s Hospitals and Graeme Hall, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer at Leicester’s Hospitals, for a session focusing on the EPR programme at the trust. The session explored Leicester’s Hospitals digital strategy, including their EPR Programme, electronic prescribing and medicines administration system and […]
Video: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Health Education England discusses digital capabilities
For Day Two of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy Workstream Lead at Health Education England. Henrietta presented a session on ‘digital literacy’ and the importance of digital capabilities in the delivery of health and social care. Henrietta said: “Health Education England is embarking on a massive piece of work […]
