A smartphone app with remote monitoring technology is being piloted for COVID-19 patients by NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The app – called MyDignio – aims to help relieve pressure on hospitals and potentially reduce unnecessary admissions by allowing patients to report symptoms from home. Developed by the Birmingham-based […]
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Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHS England to launch MedTech Funding Mandate
Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHS England and Improvement are to launch its MedTech Funding Mandate on 1 April 2021. Initially planned to launch last year following a consultation process in December 2019, it explored at the time how the NHS could adopt MedTech innovations to provide a quick return on […]
New CCS Digital Capability for Health framework selects 12 suppliers
12 suppliers on the new Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Digital Capability for Health framework, for the next four years, have been announced. The framework, which is designed to help public health and social care organisations in developing ‘digital solutions’ went live on 27 January. It was created in collaboration with […]
Patients Know Best and Somerset Cancer Register integration to go live in March
Patients Know Best has partnered with the Somerset Cancer Register to support remote monitoring and access to data for cancer patients. NHS teams and their cancer patients will, from March, be able to use the patient portal to access to their digital health record through PKB and the NHS App. […]
600 free health information videos added to NHS website
A library of over 600 free health information videos, produced by HCI, have been made available on the NHS website’s homepage. The videos have been developed by the company in partnership with Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, and cover a range of subject areas such as asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, […]
Welsh NHS announces £25 million funding for digital
In a move to support health and care organisations’ move to more digital services, NHS Wales has committed a further £25 million in funding, Health and Social Services Minister Vaughan Gething has announced. The new funding aims to support the Welsh Government’s Plan for Health and Social Care – A […]
New 24/7 blood pressure monitoring system launched
A new 24/7 Optical Blood Pressure Monitoring System (OBPM), worn as a wrist band to collect data to better inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension, has been launched. The medical innovation estimates blood pressure automatically and painlessly by analysing signals from a wearer’s wrist throughout the day. These are […]
NHS Business Services Authority launches new digital strategy
NHS Business Services Authority has published its new digital strategy, with a focus on people, services and creating an environment to facilitate excellence. The Special Health Authority, an Arm’s Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care, set out its vision, to be a ‘Catalyst for Better Health’. In […]
Online tool from Glasgow’s SPHSU explores health impacts of COVID-19
Researchers from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), at the University of Glasgow, have created an online tool that helps people explore the wider impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the platform itself, the tool aims to ignite conversations around COVID-19 and inequalities, asking ‘How has […]
HTN Now Awards 2021: Meet the Winners
HTN, and friends, are delighted to announce the highly commended and winners in the HTN Now Awards 2021! HTN would like to say a huge thank you, and well done to you all – you should all be very proud of what you have achieved. The awards aim to share […]
