A partnership has been launched to share digital health innovations and to access NHS Wales’ health and care sector platforms. The collaboration between NHS Wales Informatics Services and the Life Sciences Hub Wales is supported by Welsh Government’s Efficiency Through Technology Programme. It is known as the Digital Health Ecosystem […]
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Ideagen secures first US acquisition in $9m healthcare deal
Ideagen has announced the acquisition of American healthcare software specialists, Medforce Technologies Inc, for a deal worth $8.7m. Medforce is a growing, profitable and cash generative organisation which has successfully developed its Command suite of enterprise information management, workflow and compliance software since 1993. Its flagship CommandCenter product is used by […]
TPP sign agreement with First Chengmei Medical in Beijing
TPP have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Hainan-based company, First Chengmei Medical Industry Group. First Chengmei Medical Industry Group are a company based in the Chinese province of Hainan, they specialise in medical care, elderly care and financial investment. The firm offers a range of medical, management and construction […]
NHS England backs innovations
NHS England has today also announced a nationally backed trial of a technology to cut missed hospital appointments by supporting DrDoctor, as well as a further £1.5 million to support the spread of innovations. A new type of ‘bowel scope’ and a device that cuts infections caused by catheters will be […]
Artificial intelligence to help develop new Parkinson’s treatments
A Parkinson’s UK research proposal has won the BenevolentAI Award. The project will now use artificial intelligence to find new treatments for Parkinson’s. The project, which The Cure Parkinson’s Trust contributed to, was submitted to the inaugural Benevolent AI Award – a competition run with the Association of Medical Research […]
New ‘one stop shops’ for cancer to speed up diagnosis and save lives
Diagnostic and assessment centres are being piloted in ten areas as part of NHS England’s drive to catch cancer early and speed up diagnosis for people with cancer. Each of the centres will operate in a different way to ensure they meet the needs of their local communities. However, all […]
Health Innovation Manchester awards £100,000 funding to fast track innovative digital healthcare solutions
Health Innovation Manchester has awarded almost £100,000 of funding to three businesses and organisations to help them accelerate their innovative digital healthcare solutions. The Innovation Funds provide financial support to projects that will improve the health and wellbeing of patients and citizens by making the best use of existing and […]
The Edinburgh Clinic becomes first private clinic in Scotland to offer pioneering eye surgery
The Edinburgh Clinic, one of Scotland’s leading private day-case hospitals, has become the first Scottish private healthcare facility to offer the CyPass Micro-Stent for glaucoma treatment. One of the most common causes of irreversible blindness, glaucoma affects 2% of Scots aged over 40 and is the name given to a […]
New research highlights 63% concerned with cybersecurity costs
New research from Centrify in a study of 800 senior level executives, including CEOs, Technical Officers and CFOs in the UK and US, has indicated that there is confusion among the C-suite about what constitutes a cybersecurity risk and what needs to be done to prevent it. In the UK, malware […]
£10million invested in practices to support eReferral roll-out
A new GP contract, agreed by NHS England, the Government and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee, will take effect from 01 April 2018 and will see an investment of £256.3 million going into the contract for 2018/19, a 3.4% increase overall. This includes £60 million to be paid to […]
