SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network, has announced the programme’s latest round of funding is supporting companies to develop novel solutions to tackle the challenges of mental illness. Sharing in £700K investment, the seven successful companies have all demonstrated the potential of their innovations […]

Orion health will deliver a Patient Portal with an initial focus on people living with dementia across Northern Ireland.   The project, due to go live in August 2018, with an initial pilot of up to 100 people living with dementia, will establish the “Proof of Concept” which once successfully […]

Nuance Communications has announced that Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has deployed Dragon Medical Network Edition to relieve clinicians’ growing administrative burden and support the mobility of its healthcare workforce out and about in the community. The deployment – following the Trust being granted Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) funding […]

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is set for productivity improvements and cost savings through the adoption of mobile working solutions provided by Totalmobile within its community nursing team. The new system incorporates the capture of referral and contact information, dynamically schedules appointments, and allows visit information to be immediately inputted on to […]

In a Scottish first, specialists at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital have implanted a new device which remotely monitors heart failure patients as part of the COAST clinical trial. The study will see up to 10 patients receive cardioMEMS implants over two years with the aim of proving the device […]

SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network has announced five companies will receive funding to develop novel technologies with potential to help complete surgical procedures more effectively and with higher efficiency. Under the overall theme of Technology in Surgery, innovations were sought in two categories; […]

A new cardiac diagnostic device aimed at helping physicians rule out active ischemia in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain is being trialled at five of the most respected research facilities in the United States (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Baylor University, Houston, TX; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, […]

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has finalised a five-year contract with Cambio Healthcare Systems for a patient flow management (PFM) system in a move to improve hospital efficiency and care quality. Won in open tender, the deal will see Cambio’s PFM rolled out across all mental health inpatient sites in […]

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has chosen to adopt Insource’s configurable Patient Pathway Plus (PP+) application to help the trust to proactively manage and accurately report its elective care and Referral-to-Treatment (RTT) patient pathways. Sarah Brisbane, Head of Contracts at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust explained, “We are […]