Servelec has announced the acquisition of Elemental Software, a company specialising in social prescribing technology. Developed by former community workers, the technology is used to help connect people with support and services in there community to help address any social issues they are facing. The platform is used by GPs, multi-disciplinary teams, housing […]
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Alder Hey launches start-up collaboration programme
Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT has launched its first start-up collaboration programme, to support early stage innovations through a 14-week Innovation Lab. The programme provides start-ups with access to key stakeholders across the specialist hospital, to help them test and validate their solutions. Made up of two sprints, the first […]
Video: X-on discuss how to support GP surgeries with call demand at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
Cloud communications specialists X-on got the HTN Digital Primary Care conference underway last week by delivering our opening industry session. The company’s talk focused on how cloud telephony can support primary care providers with managing call demand, as well as remote consultations and other services. We were joined for this […]
Devon ICS plans integration of EPRs
The Integrated Care System (ICS) for Devon has outlined plans for system-wide integration of its electronic patient record (EPR) systems. Four projects form part of the ICS’s transformation programme, which include to implement a single EPR for Devon Hospices, focus on paperless working, provide system-wide access to primary care information […]
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator open to applications from next cohort of health tech innovators
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 […]
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 […]
