The Department of Health and Social Care has today announced a new £40 million investment to transform login times. In the announcement the Government highlighted that some NHS staff need to login to as many as 15 different systems, using separate login details. Matthew Gould, Chief Executive of NHSX said […]
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Health Tech Predictions 2020 Part Two
In the second part of our Health Tech Predictions for 2020 series, we asked the HTN community for their predictions for the health tech landscape in 2020, what will be big in the year and what will be some of the challenges. You can read Part One of the series here, or […]
Royal Free London and Barts Health roll out 3D image analysis software
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Health NHS Trust will be rolling out 3D image analysis software to improve heart disease diagnosis. The new image analysis software aims to improve accuracy rates for coronary heart disease diagnoses and reduce the use of invasive patient testing. Dr Parmajit […]
Sponsor supports Health Tech Awards for fourth year
HTN is delighted to announce CCube Solutions will be a headline sponsor for the fourth year running in the innovative Health Tech Awards. The unique Health Tech Awards celebrate and showcase exceptional projects, teams, technology and organisations across health and care that are making a real difference. In 2020, you […]
Opinion: Inching towards interoperability with Electronic Medical Records
By Phil McSweeney, Executive Chair, PatientSource Research published by Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation last week revealed just how widespread and potentially dangerous the interoperability of electronic medical records (EMR) is in the NHS. It demonstrates an over-reliance of archaic systems that don’t support the cross organisational and […]
Wessex Heartbeat funds 3D printing program to improve heart surgery for children
A heart charity in Hampshire, Wessex Heartbeat, has funded a program to transform the way heart surgery is performed at the University of Southampton NHS FT. It will allow surgeons to get an accurate 3D printed model of a patient’s heart before surgery, to provide additional insight and improving peace […]
Feature Series: #HealthTechToShoutAbout
Over the past few months we have been speaking with NHS providers and suppliers, hearing about their case studies and success stories in 2019. In this new #HealthTechToShoutAbout Feature Series we highlight 6 health tech projects that have made an impact across health and care. Please click on an image […]
PinPoint raises £1m to fund AI cancer detection tech
PinPoint a startup that is developing a test aiming to quickly ‘rule out’ cancer from using a blood sample has raised £1 million in funding from the Angel Investment Network. The company is developing its test using AI/Machine Learning with an aim to rapidly ‘rule out’ or detect cancer from […]
Q&A with Highland Marketing and Experiential HealthTech
In March specialist health tech agency Highland Marketing and independent health tech consultancy Experiential HealthTech launched a collaboration, including end to end advisory, market analysis, competitive intelligence, marketing and PR services. Earlier this year, Chief executive Mark Venables and consultant Andrena Logue sat down to discuss how the alliance has developed and […]
Amazon and NHS deal concerning says Privacy International
Privacy International, a UK based charity, following a series of FOI requests has suggested concerning information in the Department of Health and Social Care contract with Amazon, regarding the use of NHS content Alexa. The organisation has also called for transparency, with details of the contract redacted. In July a […]
