Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £67,000 from the Health Foundation’s Advancing Applied Analytics programme to develop new software aimed to transform NHS outpatient care. The project will use machine learning to track 32 million datasets containing patient arrival times, length of consultations, duration of appointments and […]
Secondary Care
Moorfields researchers opening up development of AI
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology are researching ways to open up the development of AI algorithms to healthcare professionals without programming experience. The team is using Google AutoML, a machine-learning algorithm that learned to build an algorithm to analyse medical images and provide diagnoses. For simple […]
Imprivata and Ascom partner for ‘tap and go’ access
Imprivata®, a leading healthcare IT security company, is partnering with Ascom a provider focused on mobile workflow, to deliver a single sign-on solution for its users. The ‘tap and go’ technology will mean clinicians have speedy access to patient and clinical data when they need it. The partnership will remove […]
Musgrove Park Hospital makes steps to being digital
Musgrove Park Hospital, a Global Digital Exemplar is introducing iPads for doctor and nurses and has introduced a range of apps to support its services. The trust received £10 million in funding to support the digitisation of its hospital, and now 10 out of 25 wards are using tablet devices […]
Wireless microcomputer implant first for UHB
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has implanted a wireless microcomputer into its first patient. The wireless in-heart microcomputer was recently implanted into a patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. The device, called V-LAP, is implanted into the heart’s left atrium, and provides accurate data about the heart and its performance, […]
Draper & Dash acquires Civil Eyes Research
Draper and Dash a specialist healthcare Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning provider has acquired Civil Eyes Research, a leader in healthcare benchmarking and insights. It marks the first acquisition for the company, to strengthen its offering of predictive analytics, bench marking, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Civil Eyes Research was founded […]
Greater Manchester unveils £14.3m digital transformation programme
Greater Manchester has unveiled plans for a £14.3m digital transformation programme to develop advanced technologies across its public services. The programme will focus on joining-up vital information and remove the current barriers of its services using a variety of different technical systems that are unable to share information. Under the plans, a […]
Patients Know Best secures ITP funding
Patients Know Best has secured central funding as part of the Innovation and Technology Programme (ITP). In April 2017, NHS England launched the Innovation and Technology Tariff (ITT), an initiative designed to reduce the financial and procurement barriers experienced by commissioners and providers wanting to adopt innovative technologies in the […]
Health Tech Awards 2019 finalists revealed…
HTN is delighted to announce the entries that have made the shortlist in the Health Tech Awards 2019! The innovative Health Tech Awards sponsored by CCube Solutions celebrate and showcase exceptional projects, teams, partnerships, technology and organisations across health and care that are making a real difference. Our judges have […]
Great Western goes live with new online appointment tool
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced a new online appointment service, aiming to improve patient experience and reduce the number of missed appointments. Utilising the DrDoctor platform, patients will have the option to receive their appointment letters, reminders and view important clinic information and hospital floor plans from their smartphones, […]
