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 […]
Case Study: Lincolnshire – leading the healthcare information revolution
Lincolnshire is using the latest technology to enable healthcare professionals to share patient records Many of the challenges facing the NHS are writ large in Lincolnshire. The second largest county in England, over half of its population live in rural locations and, with one in ten residents over the age […]
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 […]
£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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Interview Series: Constantin Jabarin and James Hodgin, Allscripts
In our latest interview, we speak to Dr Constantin Jabarin, chief clinical information officer, EMEA and James Hodgin, solution director, EMEA from Allscripts, the company behind the Sunrise Acute Care electronic patient record and the dbMotion information sharing platform. We talk about how the solutions have been supporting The Dudley […]
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 […]
Highland Marketing named communications partner for HTN Summit 2020
Highland Marketing, an integrated communications, PR and marketing consultancy has been appointed the communications partner to support the upcoming HTN events. The first event in the schedule, HTN Summit, takes place online on 21st and 22nd September to share experiences and learnings, and to collaborate with peers across the country. The […]
