Since the launch of the Apps Library, NHS Digital has worked with more than 350 developers to include new apps. This inspired the milestone of 70 apps in honour of the 70th birthday celebrations of the National Health Service. The library will continue to grow and cover many more health […]
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Dorset Care Record adds Alerts and Encounters from Dorset County Hospital
Alerts and encounters from Dorset County Hospital (DCH) have this week been added to the Dorset Care Record (DCR). It will mean that additional data from DCH including inpatients, outpatients, Emergency Department encounters and alerts are now registered on the DCR. Up to 5,000 messages a day will go through the […]
Interview: key challenges facing NHS execs and how analytics can help
In our latest interview we explore some of the key challenges facing NHS executives and how data, predictive analytics and insight can support to better manage patient flow, reduce waiting lists and support a reduction in stranded patients. We spoke with Professor Stephen Smith, former CEO Imperial College Hospitals London […]
Babylon AI achieves equivalent accuracy with human doctors in global healthcare first
Babylon Health’s AI, in a series of robust tests (including the relevant sections of the MRCGP exam), has demonstrated its ability to provide health advice which is on-par with practicing clinicians. The MRCGP exam is the final test for trainee General Practitioners (GPs), set by the Royal College of General […]
NHS Digital signs deal to deliver newpatient de-identification solution
NHS Digital has signed a contract to deliver a new software solution for the de-identification of patient information, which will help to improve the way that data is used across the NHS and social care. De-identification is the process used to prevent a person’s identity from being connected with their information. […]
Digital Care Home prevents emergency hospital admissions
Care home workers are playing a vital role in an exciting new partnership between care homes and the NHS aiming to improve the quality of life of residents and reduce emergency hospital admissions in Sheffield. The Digital Care Home is piloting a new model of collaborative working between health and […]
Thames Valley and Yorkshire and Humber join Local Health and Care Record Exemplars
Last month NHS England announced three areas, covering 14 million people, had been chosen to become ‘Local Health and Care Record Exemplars’ (LHCRE). New partnerships that will each receive up to £7.5 million over two years to put in place an electronic shared local health and care record that makes […]
UK Space Agency launches multi-million pound drive to improve patient care with NHS England
A search for hi-tech solutions to the major health and care challenges facing the NHS in its 70th anniversary year is underway with up to £4 million from the UK Space Agency. In the joint initiative with NHS England, Innovators will bid for money to turn technology originally designed for […]
Nightingale Health and UK Biobank announce major initiative
Nightingale Health the blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. Nightingale’s biomarker profiling technology will be used to analyse UK Biobank blood samples by measuring metabolic biomarkers that recent studies have found are predictive of future risk for heart […]
Increasing capacity for genomic analysis: apply for funding
Innovate UK has up to £5 million to support capital investment in equipment that increases the UK’s capacity to produce and commercialise genomic analysis technologies. Genomic analysis can help in the understanding and treatment of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. The funding is part of government’s £210 million […]
