HTN has today launched the HTN People and Partnership Awards as part of HTN Digital Week 2020. The HTN People and Partnership Awards celebrate health tech that is making a difference to patients, professionals, organisations and the health system. Taking place on 22nd January as part of HTN Digital Week, the innovative […]
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Boots pilots new instore video GP service
Boots UK is to pilot an innovative new video GP service provided by LIVI to help make access to healthcare even easier. The pilots will take place in North West Surry and a private service in the London Liverpool Street store. LIVI allows patients to see a GP by video consultation […]
NHS Digital partners with University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM for new hub for clinical trials
NHS Digital has partnered with the University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM to develop a new hub that aims to revolutionise the way in which clinical trials are delivered. NHS DigiTrial, the NHS Health Data Research Hub for Clinical Trials, is one of seven hubs announced this week to enable cutting-edge […]
7 new health data hubs launched
Seven new data hubs are to be rolled out across the UK to speed up research for new medicines, treatments, and technologies that support quicker diagnoses and save lives. The hubs will use the latest advances in technology to connect and analyse health data from existing locations and in partnership […]
HTN Digital Week 2020 registration now open
HTN has today launch HTN Digital Week, a series of online events to share and collaborate on healthcare technology, taking place 20th – 26th January 2020. Supported by Dedalus UK, CCube Solutions and Rhapsody the week provides a range of webinars, features, interviews, special reports, live videos and social media […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: What is holding your organisation back from becoming digital?
In the second of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked NHS professionals what is holding your organisation back from becoming digital? In this article we have selected some of the key themes, comments and challenges highlighted in the survey. Of the respondents 22% were positive […]
20 innovators join DigitalHealth.London Accelerator
DigitalHealth.London has today announced the 20 new digital health care innovators to be supported by the 2019-20 programme. Now in its fourth year, it supports small and medium organisations accelerate the adoption of innovations into the NHS. The Accelerator is receiving approximately £1.7 million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund as […]
£130m investment for gene-based therapies and artificial intelligence
The Government has today announced it will invest over £130 million in life-changing treatments for arthritis and cancer and for pioneering gene-based therapies for diseases including dementia and Parkinson’s. An investment of £50 million with support NHS diagnostic services and support the work of existing Centres of Excellence in digital pathology […]
Moorfields researchers opening up development of AI
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology are researching ways to open up the development of AI algorithms to healthcare professionals without programming experience. The team is using Google AutoML, a machine-learning algorithm that learned to build an algorithm to analyse medical images and provide diagnoses. For simple […]
Health Tech sees highest valuations in over 5 years
A report from Hampleton Partners has highlighted the health tech sector has seen record valuations in the first half of 2019. The first half of 2019 recorded an increase in healthtech M&A activity, with 100 deals closed (11 per cent more than in 2H 2018) and around $8.3 billion in […]
