The Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate, is to invest up to £10 million in Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Institute. The Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI) is a collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Strathclyde, who are its […]
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NHS Digital launches staff cyber security campaign and new virtual data assistant
NHS Digital has launched a new campaign for staff to support cyber security in the workplace. The campaign, named Keep I.T. Confidential aims to generate awareness and educate staff across the NHS on the impact of data security on patient safety and care. The campaign has been created to support […]
Health Education England announces 17 new digital fellows
Health Education England has awarded 17 new digital fellowships to incorporate digital health expertise within their careers. The Topol Review published earlier this year made several recommendations including the creation of these digital fellowships. Led by cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher Dr Eric Topol, he explored how to prepare […]
People and Partnership Awards by HTN launched
HTN has today launched the HTN People and Partnership Awards as part of HTN Digital Week 2020. The HTN People and Partnership Awards celebrate health tech that is making a difference to patients, professionals, organisations and the health system. Taking place on 22nd January as part of HTN Digital Week, the innovative […]
Boots pilots new instore video GP service
Boots UK is to pilot an innovative new video GP service provided by LIVI to help make access to healthcare even easier. The pilots will take place in North West Surry and a private service in the London Liverpool Street store. LIVI allows patients to see a GP by video consultation […]
NHS Digital partners with University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM for new hub for clinical trials
NHS Digital has partnered with the University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM to develop a new hub that aims to revolutionise the way in which clinical trials are delivered. NHS DigiTrial, the NHS Health Data Research Hub for Clinical Trials, is one of seven hubs announced this week to enable cutting-edge […]
7 new health data hubs launched
Seven new data hubs are to be rolled out across the UK to speed up research for new medicines, treatments, and technologies that support quicker diagnoses and save lives. The hubs will use the latest advances in technology to connect and analyse health data from existing locations and in partnership […]
HTN Digital Week 2020 registration now open
HTN has today launch HTN Digital Week, a series of online events to share and collaborate on healthcare technology, taking place 20th – 26th January 2020. Supported by Dedalus UK, CCube Solutions and Rhapsody the week provides a range of webinars, features, interviews, special reports, live videos and social media […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: What is holding your organisation back from becoming digital?
In the second of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked NHS professionals what is holding your organisation back from becoming digital? In this article we have selected some of the key themes, comments and challenges highlighted in the survey. Of the respondents 22% were positive […]
20 innovators join DigitalHealth.London Accelerator
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 […]
