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The Panoply acquires Difrent for £8.8m

The Panoply Holdings PLC, a technology-enabled services group, has announced the acquisition of healthcare transformation consultancy Difrent. The move helps the company expand into healthcare, where 75% of Difrent’s revenues are generated. Difrent’s clients include NHSX, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Business Services Authority, Public Health England, World Health […]

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Six tech projects to benefit from £32m funding

Six projects have been backed by the government with new £32 million funding, announced as part of a keynote speech on research and development at London Tech Week 2020. The projects include airport-style walk-through scanners for cancer diagnoses and robotic muscles for patients who have lost muscle capability, such as patients who […]

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4 examples of AI in present-day healthcare

Over recent years there has certainly been hype around artificial intelligence and whether the reality of this technology meets those expectations. We tasked our reporter Matt White, as part of our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, to explore and research four examples of how artificial intelligence is being […]

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£800m NHS Digital software development services framework opens

A £800m framework has opened for IT management services for NHS and social care, to be operated by NHS Digital. The framework is being run by the Crown Commercial Service, and aims to recruit approximately 12 suppliers of software development services. The framework titled ‘Digital Capability for Health’ is estimated to start in […]

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Elsevier acquires Cambridge based semantic AI company

Elsevier has acquired SciBite, a Cambridge based company specialising in extracting insight from structured and unstructured text. The solutions from the company help to extract scientific insights from content to identify key concepts such as drugs, proteins, companies, targets, and outcomes, to help understand better the complexities of life sciences data. Dr. Harland, the company […]

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Hyland acquires robotic process automation provider Another Monday

Hyland, an information management company, has acquired Another Monday, a Germany-based robotic process automation (RPA) software developer. The company supports over 19,000 organisations across the world manage their content digitally. One of their customers in the UK is Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, who adopted the OnBase […]

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Video: Starting out as a new nurse information officer

As part of HTN Digital Week June 2020, we welcomed Helen McGuire and Ainhoa Arjona, to present their experience of their new role as Assistant Nursing Information Officers (ANIO) at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The ANIO role is to improve nursing practice through technology to optimise […]