Each week as part of our Health Tech Heroes series we recognise and say thank you to those in health tech making a real difference. Here in the third part in the series, we cover some of the amazing work this week where teams across the country have been working […]
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UK space technologies to boost NHS Coronavirus response
A new £2.6 million fund is being made available to develop high tech projects to support the health service tackle the coronavirus. The UK Space Agency has opened a call for proposals process to fund successful projects that might use satellite data and drone technology to meet some of the […]
Video: David Kwo, lessons learned from implementing an electronic patient record
In January, as part of HTN Digital Week, we heard from David Kwo, former Director of EHRS and Informatics, UCLH. David presented lessons learned from the implementation of the Epic electronic patient record system. David was responsible for the Epic implementation at UCLH. The trust’s Epic journey started when the […]
Priority broadband for clinicians working from home and free data for NHS staff
The Government and leading telecoms companies have announced new initiatives to support healthcare professionals have priority broadband and free data. Frontline NHS workers dealing with COVID-19 will be able to access free data and calls for NHS staff using their own phone for work purposes. For clinicians working from home, […]
NHSX partners with Accenture and Facebook to trial video calling during Covid-19 crisis
NHSX has partnered with Facebook to provide 2,050 devices to help some of society’s most at-risk and isolated people access vital emotional support and companionship. These devices developed by Facebook will be provided free to trusts, care homes and other healthcare settings. Accenture is supporting the programme and deployment of the […]
SilverCloud Health raises £13m in Series B Funding
SilverCloud Health, the digital mental health platform used by 70% of NHS mental health organisations has raised £13m in Series B Funding. The investment will support the company develop its digital therapy tools and expand further globally. The platform includes over 30 digital mental health programmes, demonstrated to be on […]
DigitalHealth.London new Launchpad opens for applications
DigitalHealth.London has opened its third Launchpad programme to support health tech innovators develop and launch new innovations into the NHS. The programme will initially support 5-8 companies launch new products or processes. Companies will be evaluated on the NHS need for the product and the potential benefits from the programme. […]
Hull and North Lincs launch free online mental health service
A new online service has been launched to support children and young people in Hull and North Lincolnshire. The tool is available for people aged between 11 and 25 to provide free, anonymous online counselling and emotional wellbeing service. Using Kooth, accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, people can receive […]
Visionable appoints Rachel Dunscombe as its CTO
Specialist video collaboration provider, Visionable, has appointed Rachel Dunscombe as its chief technology officer. Rachel will lead Visionable’s strategy on the development of its unique video collaboration platform to meet the needs of integrated care systems. The company is one of very view video manufacturers, and has customers such as West […]
NHS Digital partners with email and data security supplier
NHS Digital has partnered with email and data security supplier Egress for NHSmail. Egress Protect will integrate into NHSmail to improve protection and security, following a recent successful pilot of the solution. Chris Parsons, NHSmail Programme Lead at NHS Digital said “NHSmail is already a safe, secure email system, used […]
