Health Innovation Manchester (HInM) has published a new three-year strategy, outlining priorities for delivering innovation across Greater Manchester, focusing on optimising digital and data products, integrated collaboration, and enhancing the region’s ability to deliver innovation in health. The strategy focuses on four strategic objectives, which include addressing high priority drivers […]
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International news-in-brief: AI for clinical note taking, HIMSS digital maturity validations, women’s health tech accelerator and more
In traditional news in brief style, let’s take a look at some of the latest stories to have caught our eye over at HTN International on global health tech. Interview: Inderpal Kohli, VP and chief information officer at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey For our latest HTN.International interview, we caught up […]
£48 million announced to fund capabilities relating to digital pathways, demand and capacity tools for ICBs
Funding of £48 million has been announced for 2024/25 as part of a framework to support integrated care boards with capabilities relating to digital pathways and demand and capacity tools. The framework aims to “enable ICBs to take advantage of the available funding to support uplifted digital tools” in line with […]
Airedale General Hospital goes live with geospatial system for RAAC management
Airedale General Hospital has gone live with a geospatial system to help manage its reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) monitoring and repairs programme. The geospatial system uses geographic information system software from Esri UK, replacing paper-based processes. Formerly, the RAAC inspection process “relied on hand-written surveys to record defects, including cracks, […]
NHS Dorset ICB App Library sees 5,400 app recommendations made
NHS Dorset ICB has shared a case study on its partnership with ORCHA to develop a Dorset App Library for health apps and digital healthcare products, with the aim of providing “easy, central access to a range of digital tools” along with ensuring confidence that apps within the library meet […]
Moray health data pilot project focuses on citizen data ownership and a proactive approach to early intervention
In Moray, North East Scotland, a new health data pilot project led by the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre’s (DHI) Rural Centre of Excellence, is focusing on citizen data ownership and a proactive approach to early intervention, working with industry partners to develop digital tools to enable citizens to […]
Interview: “What’s come out in all of the research that I’ve done is the convenience factor” Helen Atherton, professor of primary care research at the University of Southampton
We recently caught up with Helen Atherton, professor in primary care research at the University of Southampton, to talk about her research findings and insights into digital in primary care. Helen first shared with us a brief introduction to her role and how she first got into research in the […]
ICBs to pilot new ways of optimising primary care and further deliver on the Fuller Stocktake vision
A letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, national director of primary care and community services at NHS England, and Ed Garratt, chief executive of NHS Suffolk and North Essex ICB to integrated care boards, proposes plans to test new ways of working to ‘optimise the general practice operating model’ across urgent and […]
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust launches pilot utilising tech to reduce ward noise levels
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has launched ‘The Silent Hospital Pilot Project’, seeking to reduce levels of noise on a postnatal ward by introducing technology capable of silencing patient call bells and driving the audible alerts to staff mobile phones instead. To evaluate the pilot’s success, the trust aims to […]
South West Yorkshire Partnership and Leeds Beckett collaborate to digitise ADHD and autism service
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Beckett University are collaborating on a project aiming to digitise the trust’s adult ADHD and autism service, to support with diagnosis and prioritisation of services. With professor of computer science Grigoris Antoniou leading the team, the partnership will examine how computing […]
