NICE has today published a five-year strategy with an increased focus on new treatments, technologies and innovations. In the strategy the body highlights its four priority areas of focus; ‘rapid, robust, and responsive technology evaluation’, ‘dynamic, living guideline recommendations’, ‘effective guidance uptake to maximise impact’ and ‘leadership in data, research […]
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Alcidion acquires patient flow software company
Smart health tech company Alcidion has acquired a UK patient flow software company called ExtraMed. ExtraMed provides patient flow software to NHS trusts and Alcidion’s capture is set to lead to an ‘enhanced offering’ for hospitals and primary and social care organisations. It’s reported that it will be ‘business as […]
News in brief: MOD contract for PMC solution, openEHR in the Caribbean
There’s plenty of health tech news to start the week with – from the Ministry of Defence’s primary medical care contract, to openEHR in the Caribbean – catch up on anything you might have missed, by reading our news bites this morning. MOD contract for PMC solution delivery The software […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital maturity satisfaction in focus
For our HTN Health Tech Trends Series 2021, supported by InterSystems, we sent out a survey to you – our audience – asking readers to respond to a series of questions around digital maturity satisfaction levels, the best technology your organisations have adopted and how close you are to working […]
Video: how can we make data more useful for clinicians?
The final day of live sessions of HTN Now April 2021 was jam-packed – featuring five different sessions covering a range health tech topics. One of our Thursday morning talks included an expert discussion on how to make data more useful to clinicians. Malcolm Pradhan, Chief Medical Officer at Alcidion […]
Video: Ideal Health discuss change management and ‘what does good look like?’
The digital healthcare consultancy Ideal Health joined us for the final day of the April 2021 HTN Now series to talk about the the importance of change management in digital transformation, in regards to achieving adoption and delivering benefits. Considering what a ‘good’ transformation journey looks like, as well as […]
AXA and Microsoft to collaborate on new digital healthcare platform
AXA has announced that it is working with Microsoft to build a new, fully integrated digital healthcare platform. The insurance giant said it will aim to simplify healthcare journeys and ’empower’ customers, using the platform to provide a ‘virtual healthcare system’ that is ‘open to all’. By combining AXA’s ‘global […]
Video: Imprivata on the power of digital identity
For our third April 2021 HTN Now session on day one, we were joined by a trio of presenters to talk about the power of digital identity, its importance of in the modern healthcare environment and the need for a more ‘complete approach’ when managing it. In the blue corner, […]
News in brief: Google to return to patient record tools, NHS Digital signs up with Scandit
Google, NHS Digital, the World Health Organisation…there are some big names in the news pot this week. There’s plenty to catch up on – as well as our HTN Now April 2021 sessions – so use our news bites below to find out the latest developments in the world of […]
Full-size synthetic 3D heart replicas created by researchers at KCL
Researchers from King’s College London (KCL) have been using mathematical techniques and Computed Tomography (CT) images to create 3D replicas of full-size healthy adult hearts. The study is a collaboration between King’s, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Graz in Austria and Liryc – the Electrophysiology […]
