NHSX has announced a COVID-19 forecasting tool, developed with tech firm Palantir, is to be made available to local NHS organisations. NHSX said the forecasting tool that is part of the NHS COVID-19 Data Store, will support local and national health leaders by providing information and data related to COVID-19. The […]
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Boots offers people living with cancer free access to video consultations
Boots has announced it will offer a new online consultation service for free to those affected by cancer. Through a video consultation, using the Livi platform, people will be able to speak to a trained healthcare professional for free, a service that would usually cost £39. Boots, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer […]
HTN Trends Series: Health tech leaders discuss their 2020 priorities
At the start of the year as part of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, we asked health tech leaders for their aims and priorities for 2020. In this article we revisited this theme and spoke with health tech leaders across the country to discuss their priorities […]
Greater Manchester Digital Platform procures more health tech solutions
The Greater Manchester Digital Platform has welcomed a new group of health tech suppliers to support the development of its next generation digital platform. The platform is being designed and built to hold, analyse and share information across health, social care and community settings across the region. The successful suppliers […]
Imperial College highlights text message reminders in cervical screening uptake
Research from a team at Imperial College London has shown sending a text message reminder can lead to more women taking up cervical screening. The findings also indicate the approaches and language used in the text messages can support greater uptake. The research has been published in the journal Preventive Medicine following a […]
Health Innovation Hub Ireland accelerator winners announced
Health Innovation Hub Ireland has announced the winners of its innovation competition to validate, pilot and fast-track solutions into the Irish healthcare system. Following a national health innovation competition, 15 health tech suppliers have been chosen. The competition was directed at companies who have an innovative product, solution or service […]
Bradford announces new health tech strategy
A new interactive digital roadmap, People First: Digital First, has just been launched in Bradford and Craven. Health and social partners across the area including Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT; Airedale NHS FT; Bradford District Care NHS FT; NHS Bradford District and Craven CCG; Bradford Council; Bradford Institute for Health Research; and […]
New mathematical principle used to prevent AI from making unethical decisions
A collaboration of researchers have found a mathematical principle can help regulators police Artificial Intelligence systems’ biases towards making unethical choices. In a research paper published earlier this month in the Royal Society Open Science, statisticians from University of Warwick, Imperial, EPFL and Sciteb Ltd have come together to create a […]
Oxford spin-out to launch £20 COVID test
A spin-out company from Oxford University named Oxsed Limited, has developed a test for COVID-19 that costs £20 per test. The team from the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science and Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research have developed a quick test which detects the presence of virus. The […]
Moorfields adopts AI and video consultations tech
Moorfields Eye Hospital has turned to AI to support and detect eye problems, and is providing video consultations to operate a virtual A&E department. Using AI to detect eye disease The hospital is part of a study to explore using artificial intelligence technology to detect eye disease among patients with […]
