Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock is setting up an NHSX unit. It’s hardly the first attempt to set up a central body to sort out IT policy and approach. So will it fly, or founder on the launch pad? Lyn Whitfield, Highland Marketing’s strategy and content director, considers […]
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HTN 100: NHS Digital, HTN Digital Week, Sensyne Health and Acorns Children’s Hospice
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. HTN Digital Week dates announced The dates for HTN Digital Week, an innovative week on health tech have been announced and the series of events will take […]
Lumeon secures $28m funding for US growth
Lumeon, the company behind the care pathway management platform has raised funding to expand its commercial operations, with advice from BKL. The funding from Life Sciences Partners, is one the largest healthcare investment firms in Europe, to grow its US team and customer base. The company will now use the $28 […]
HTN 100: CQC new CDO, Tadworth Children’s Trust and Allscripts
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. New Chief Digital Officer to join CQC The Care Quality Commission has appointed Mark Sutton from Teach First in the role of Chief Digital Officer. Mark will […]
HTN 100: Morecambe Bay, New Director of Improvement and Aviva Digital GP
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. 150 cyber attacks over 5 years for Morecambe Bay On Saturday the BBC reported that University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has been hit with over […]
Interview Series: Dr Nick Harvey, co-founder of Digitalis
In our latest interview we spoke with Dr Nick Harvey, CEO of Digitalis, NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur and RCGP Entrepreneur. Dr Harvey has been a principle GP 7 years and a trainer for 5 years and is the co-founder of Digitalis, a platform that helps busy healthcare professionals meet their obligations to […]
‘Human brain’ supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time
The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time. The newly formed million-processor-core ‘Spiking Neural Network Architecture’ or ‘SpiNNaker’ machine is capable of completing […]
HTN 100: Lincolnshire, Royal Papworth, Highland Marketing and Fujifilm
Lincoln goes live with Rio Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the Rio from Servelec for over 2,000 practitioners. Sarah Connery, Director of Finance and Information at LPFT said: “We have worked closely with Servelec, staff, commissioners and patient representatives to build a specification that best meets […]
HTN Feature: Sharing Records Part 2
In part two of our feature we spoke with industry experts to hear how they are progressing with sharing records across their local health economy or STP and what they have learned, achieved and what advice they have to share. We spoke to Richard Greaves, SIDeR Programme Manager at Somerset […]
HTN 100: Reducing agency spend by 25% and pharmacy anywhere
Reducing agency spend by 25% Oceanblue has supported Sandwell and West Birmingham to reduce their Bank and Agency run rate by £12M p.a. Over 12 months up to February 2018, the Oceansblue / Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust software and services project delivered: RN shortages on shifts cut […]
