Silver Buck a newly formed health IT communications organisation has appointed its new advisory board. The company, which was launched earlier this year, has created the Buccaneers to support health IT suppliers and health care organisations to better position themselves and ensure that they are delivering solutions that the industry […]
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Southampton FC signs HealthStore deal with BridgeHead
Southampton Football Club has selected BridgeHead Software’s Independent Clinical Archive (ICA), HealthStore™, to assist the long-term consolidation, protection and secure sharing of its players’ medical images. This will support the club’s clinicians in assessing injuries, collaborating on player rehabilitation and developing education and injury prevention strategies. The need for fast […]
Case Study: How Nova are successfully facilitating Digital Health Innovation through a ‘cofoundery’ process
The team at Nova have first-hand experience of what characteristics digital health startups, and their founders, require to succeed – as well insight as to the reasons that cause over 90% of them to fail. Nova’s motivation to reduce the unsustainably high failure rate for startups, spurred them to create […]
Artificial intelligence set to decode heart attack and stroke risk
The British Heart Foundation and the Alan Turing Institute are developing a machine learning tool to predict which people are likely to suffer a life-threatening heart attack or stroke. Once developed, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool will help predict peoples’ risk based on their health records and could transform the […]
Leeds first city to fully join up with GP Connect
NHS Digital has announced that all clinicians across Leeds will be able to access patients’ previous encounters with GPs, improving the data link between the care received at primary and secondary care. The GP Connect service allows GP practices and authorised clinical staff to share and view GP records digitally […]
Medical research charity announces new startup fund in partnership with healthtech accelerator
Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK) have launched The Ronald Furlong Fund, in collaboration with healthtech experts HS., as a catalyst for innovation in musculoskeletal care. According to NHS England, 1 in 4 UK adults live with a musculoskeletal condition. These disabilities, which affect joints, bones and muscles, can have a huge […]
HTN Digital Week
HTN Digital Week is a week of webinars, content, video and live presentations to share some of the great work across health and care. By the end of HTN Digital Week we hope you have learned from some great health tech projects, enjoyed reading our content, participated in some great […]
Interview Series: Jon Witte, MD, Engage Health Systems
Earlier in January Boots UK announced the acquisition of Wiggly-Amps Limited, a health technology company providing solutions that enable patients and their GPs to better manage their prescription needs. Since the acquisition the company has had a name change to Engage Health Systems and we spoke with the MD Witte to […]
HTN 100: South West Yorkshire, Gogodoc, Sectra and Populo Consulting
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. South West Yorkshire NHS Partnership NHS FT goes live with Restart South West Yorkshire has gone live with Restart Consulting to provide 3,500 health and care professionals with […]
New AI ‘shapeshift’ test identifies women with ‘very high risk’ ovarian cancer
Scientists have developed a new test that scans the shapes of tumour cells to pick out women with especially aggressive ovarian cancer, so treatment can be tailored to their needs. A team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that looks for clusters of […]
