DigitalHealth.London has today announced the 20 new digital health care innovators to be supported by the 2019-20 programme. Now in its fourth year, it supports small and medium organisations accelerate the adoption of innovations into the NHS. The Accelerator is receiving approximately £1.7 million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund as […]
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£130m investment for gene-based therapies and artificial intelligence
The Government has today announced it will invest over £130 million in life-changing treatments for arthritis and cancer and for pioneering gene-based therapies for diseases including dementia and Parkinson’s. An investment of £50 million with support NHS diagnostic services and support the work of existing Centres of Excellence in digital pathology […]
Moorfields researchers opening up development of AI
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology are researching ways to open up the development of AI algorithms to healthcare professionals without programming experience. The team is using Google AutoML, a machine-learning algorithm that learned to build an algorithm to analyse medical images and provide diagnoses. For simple […]
Health Tech sees highest valuations in over 5 years
A report from Hampleton Partners has highlighted the health tech sector has seen record valuations in the first half of 2019. The first half of 2019 recorded an increase in healthtech M&A activity, with 100 deals closed (11 per cent more than in 2H 2018) and around $8.3 billion in […]
New framework for cloud services
A new procurement framework has launched to streamline the process of purchasing cloud solutions. Launched by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) the innovative Cloud Solutions Framework helps the NHS, local authorities, police, educational establishments, and any other public sector organisation, to access the cloud services at best value-for-money from 24 […]
CHIME and BCS launch CIO qualification program
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has today launched in the UK in partnership with the BCS. The partnership allows BCS to manage the benefits of CHIME membership including access to CHIME’s online materials and admission to the CHIME Healthcare CIO qualification program (CHCIO), an internationally recognised qualification […]
MIG supports 6,000 professionals across Bristol
Access to GP and community care patient data through the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) is now available to 6,000 health and care professionals across Bristol. Part of the Connecting Care Partnership which supports 85 GP practices, three community providers, three acute hospitals, a mental health trust and three councils it brings together 20 […]
1,076 providers now using NHSmail
NHS Digital has announced 1,076 providers are now using the NHSmail service, up from just 97 providers at the start of the year. The centrally funded mail service is now being used across multiple care settings following an ‘Entry Level’ of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit was released. NHS […]
Medtech Accelerator awards £150k to two innovations
Medtech Accelerator, a specialist financial scheme for early stage medtech innovations, has announced awards totalling £150,000 to two innovation projects in the fields of critical care logistics and cornea replacement surgery. LocANTS, a software platform that facilitates the sharing of critical data when moving a patient between hospital sites, and […]
Health Tech Awards 2019 finalists revealed…
HTN is delighted to announce the entries that have made the shortlist in the Health Tech Awards 2019! The innovative Health Tech Awards sponsored by CCube Solutions celebrate and showcase exceptional projects, teams, partnerships, technology and organisations across health and care that are making a real difference. Our judges have […]
