Our Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, has focused on digital strategies over the past few weeks, highlighting plans at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, North East and North Cumbria ICS, Oxford Health NHS FT, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS FT to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT. In […]
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Evergreen Life partners with Cievert to champion patient-led healthcare
Evergreen Life has announced the acquisition of Cievert, a company that focuses on making complex care pathways simple through digital tools. Evergreen Life, established by former clinical pharmacist, Stephen Critchlow, aims to put people in control of their health and wellbeing to get the care they want. Through the acquisition […]
Barts Health uses AI to scan 14.2 million documents to identify patients with diabetic foot disease
Barts Health NHS Trust has utilised AI technology to scan 14.2 million documents to find and identify patients with diabetic foot disease. The analysis of the documents aimed to find patients, who otherwise might have been unknown, and therefore enable the trust to focus its resources on a particular cohort. […]
Chelsea and Westminster’s Dr Ryan Dhunnookchand: app building to up-skill staff on a coronavirus ward
Last week, HTN covered the nationwide release of the free-to-use Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff that have been redeployed from their regular roles to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-designed and developed by Imagineear Health and a team from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (which includes both Chelsea and […]
Royal Marsden plans new Digital Health Record
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has announced a new programme to implement a Digital Health Record (DHR) to replace its electronic patient record system. Following recent business case approval from its Board, The Royal Marsden will partner with Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and begin the roll-out of […]
Patchwork Health raises £3.5 million from investors
Patchwork Health, a health-tech company providing a digital healthcare staffing platform, has raised £3.5 million in its latest round of funding. This round of investment follows a recent raise of £3 million in January 2020, to support the company’s growth plans. Founded in 2016 by NHS doctors Anas Nader and Jing […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust selects Agilisys data platform
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen technology from Agilisys to provide a data platform across the trust. Forming part of trust’s ambition to create a digitally-enabled healthcare future, the aim is for its workforce to be digitally empowered and to ensure digital is a good experience for staff and […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole’s refreshed digital strategy in focus
As part of our latest Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, our focus on digital strategies set out by NHS trusts continues. In part one, we picked out the interesting digital and tech initiatives for the next five years, as laid out by the Wirral University Hospital NHS Foundation […]
Interview Series: Bruno Botelho, Director of Digital Operations at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Bruno Botelho, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Director of Digital Operations at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust took time out to chat to HTN about his role, current projects and vision for the future. As well as opening new digitally-enhanced critical care units, the trust and its charity CW+ […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital aims in Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT’s new strategy
As part of our Health Tech Trends Series 2021, which is supported by InterSystems, HTN in a three-part edition, takes a closer look at new NHS trust strategies set to be implemented across the next five years. A number of organisations have been releasing their plans or draft papers with […]