The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced an agreement with Cerner a global leader in health care technology, for the VA to use off-the-shelf Cerner solutions to provide veterans, transitioning service members and their care providers access to their medical history through a single electronic health record (EHR) system. […]

HTN is pleased to announce tickets are now available for HTN Digital Week.  HTN Digital Week, a series of online events from 21st – 25th January 2019 is an innovative week to celebrate, share and showcase your work and learnings from healthcare technology. Utilising digital channels including webinars, online seminars, ebooks, opinion piece, […]

NHS technology provider Patientrack is to enhance its work with NHS hospitals following an agreement to be acquired by health informatics software company Alcidion Group. The move will create a company focused on next-generation patient safety, decision intelligence and analytics technology for healthcare. Hospitals will benefit from the same Patientrack team […]

NHS Digital has launched the new Data Security and Protection Toolkit, replacing the previous Information Governance Toolkit, to help keep patient information safe. The Data Security and Protection Toolkit is an online self-assessment tool that enables health and social care organisations to measure and publish their performance against the National […]

An innovative solution designed to identify infection in dialysis patients has completed a successful pilot clinical investigation following a funding award from Health Innovation Manchester. Manchester-based medical device company Microbiosensor, secured £50,000 from the Energise Innovation Fund in 2016 to pilot their PD Safe device in Manchester. The PD Safe […]

Lewisham NHS Trust wanted a way to immediately provide their clinical, operational and leadership team with greater oversight on cancer waiting times. The organisation also wanted the assurance that the solutions exceeded the national requirements and would really focus on user engagement and outcomes. The hospital and its delivery team […]

Corti, the Copenhagen-based artificial intelligence platform that uses machine learning to provide emergency medical personnel with life-saving diagnostic assistance, has announced a partnership with the European Emergency Number Association (EENA), with four sites across Europe being selected to pilot the technology. The project has the potential to save thousands of […]

Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company and SecMaker, have announced a strategic technology and reselling partnership to enable healthcare providers in Sweden and the Nordics to swiftly, securely and conveniently access clinical applications and patient information via smartcard based technology. The combined solution, which uses two-factor authentication to increase IT […]

Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has announced a review into how tens of thousands of NHS staff can be trained to use artificial intelligence and robotics. The review will be led by Dr Eric Topol an expert in cardiology, genetics and digital medicine. Dr Topol […]