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• Innovation Ecosystem Programme outlines recommendations for change through innovation
• Interview: Dr Nojus Saad, president and CEO of Youth For Women Foundation and MENA digital healthcare researcher
• Moorfields Eye Hospital awards £16.7 million EPR contract
• Alder Hey Children’s responds to data published online purporting to be “obtained illegally” from trust systems
• Feature: Positive user adoption, a key measure of EPR success by Gary Mooney, InterSystems
• Imperial College NHS achieves level 6 digital maturity rating and introduces AI tool
• Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals’ partnership sees £2.56 million funding for innovative diagnosis and treatment
• Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Board highlights EPR rollout, shared care records, and remote monitoring
• HTN Now: Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex discuss digital workforce training and eduction
• Panel discussion: Managing EHR complexity, addressing technical challenges, and achieving a balance between customisation, compliance, and scalability
• HTN Now: Leeds and York Partnership’s digital journey
• NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB and Herefordshire Council share £2.2 million opportunity for Tech Enabled Care Service
• AI and imaging help tackle cancer waiting lists in Barking, Havering and Redbridge
• Panel discussion: Putting Lord Darzi’s report into action: a digital focus to drive change
• Oxford Health publishes £16 million opportunity for online mental health services framework
• Ongoing “major” cyber security incident at Wirral University Teaching Hospital
• Derbyshire ICB highlights “changing role” of analysts and opportunities for data
• Kent and Medway primary care strategy focuses on access and digital front door
• Feature: Combining data-driven rostering with care management to reduce burnout and turnover in social care
• WHO digital transformation handbook offers guidance on developing a person-centred point of service system
• 87 acute hospital trusts and 28 ICBs sign up to Federated Data Platform, one year on
• Cleveland Clinic London awarded HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 for “significant level” of digitisation and integration of EMR
• PRSB to develop new approach for use of individual characteristics within care records
• Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital trials intelligent medications cabinet for patient bedside
• NHS DigiTrials initiative to recruit 150,000 volunteers for research on cancer and children’s surgery
• NHS England shares refreshed plans for current operating framework to support optimisation
• Children’s health platform Little Journey raises £6 million to scale and enhance product
• Launching HTN’s cyber security professional network!
• Industry view: what is holding the NHS back from innovation, and what is needed to break these barriers?
• Exploring smart tech: VR, IoT, wearable sensors, digital twins and more
• NHS England highlights ICBs to assess information, digital maturity across sectors, progress on system wide digital plans, virtual ward capacity and usage
• October 2024 virtual wards share insight into occupancy and capacity across the NHS
• Wes Streeting calls for modernisation of public services, citing opportunities offered by tech and data
• Log my Care launches intelligent rostering to connect carers with service users 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS to develop digital access solution shaped by citizens
• Great Ormond Street Hospital to expand trial of ambient AI to 5,000 patients across healthcare settings
• East Sussex Healthcare selects preferred supplier for EPR programme EmPoweR
• Digital Health and Care Wales launches partnership to advance digital health innovation
• HDR UK introduces new features in updated version of Health Data Research Gateway
• Guy’s and St Thomas’ trials drone service for urgent medical deliveries
• 171 Black Country GP practices update websites to support patient access
• Ali Parsa launches AI company Quadrivia and personal clinical assistant tool for beta testing
• Barts Health deploys Cynerio’s cyber security platform across all sites
• NHS Cheshire and Merseyside report explores how system working can support outcomes for children and young people
• NHS England shares roadmap for Organisation Data Service and planned projects for delivery to 2024/25
• Poll: Two years from now, how many GP clinical system (core electronic health record) suppliers do you think there will be?
• HTN Now: how to improve processes and security by managing corporate records with cloud tech
• NHS England plans NHS cyber risk rating platform
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology highlights growth opportunities, challenges, and priorities for UK AI assurance market
• 11 working groups established to consider “future vision for the NHS” on access, infrastructure, data, tech, innovation, and more
• HTN International news in brief: health tech in Abu Dhabi, Canada, Korea, Togo, and more
• £71.2 million investment in digital infrastructure approved at Buckinghamshire Healthcare
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals appoints new chief clinical information officer
• 900,000 increase in video/online appointments delivered in primary care
• VitalHub acquires Strata Health for C$32.3 million to extend electronic referral solution
• Somerset NHS FT publishes AI Policy; covering safe integration, ethics, legal responsibilities, yearly reviews
• Introducing OX.General Practice …a robust, secure, modern GP practice clinical system
• Single Point of Access scheme Norfolk and Waveney supports referrals to virtual ward pathway
• HTN Now: panel discussions in November and December 2024
• VR treatment for patients with psychosis to be piloted at South West London and St George’s
• East of England partnership project trials technology to improve connectivity for ambulance teams
• Video interview: Sajid Azeb, chief operating officer and deputy chief executive at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT on its Command Centre
• NICE launches reporting standards and tool for evaluations of AI technologies
• Scalpel AI raises £3.8m to expand surgical instrument tracking and validation platform
• Proposed mental health plans from Birmingham and Solihull ICB highlight digital as “major vehicle for change”
• X-on Health and Hanley Consulting join forces to end the “8am Rush”
• Alzheimer’s Society opens 2025/26 applications for innovation accelerator programme
• Feature: Rackspace Technology on the benefits of sovereign cloud services and EPR market trends
• Royal United Hospitals Bath launches digital inclusion team to support patient empowerment
• North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust utilises livestreaming tech to support maternity training
• Norfolk Community Health and Care shares progress on community virtual ward, one year on
• Budget 2024: what does it mean for the NHS?
• 2025 HTN panel discussions and features schedule: From EPRs, patient flow, cyber security, to the shift to proactive care and more
• Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust launches immersive simulation suite
• AI use cases in the NHS: supporting diagnosis, personalising treatment, predicting disease
• Princess Alexandra Hospital electronic health record to go live first week of November
• Digital mental health: plans for improved data quality, engagement challenges and attitudes, priorities in this space…
• HTN Now: the role of digital in going green and supporting sustainability in healthcare
• Interview: “If you wait for perfection, you will never do anything” Ian Mackenzie, NHS leader
• NHS England publishes £13.3 million expansion for “Tiger Teams” to support EPR delivery
• Cardiff and Vale University Health Board opens expression of interest for digital clinical audit platform
• Case Study: Nightingale Practice celebrates a win for staff and patients, thanks to Apex
• CQC reports on the state of health and adult social care in England for 2023/24 highlighting digital access, data quality and reporting, and the role of tech
• Interview: James Reed, consultant forensic psychiatrist and physician executive at InterSystems on key opportunities within digital mental health
• DeepHealth acquires AI diagnostic company to support breast cancer care
• North West London ICS on how digital underpins plans for integrated neighbourhood teams
• NHSE highlights challenges with AI evaluations: potential for bias, adoption site capacity, variation between sites
• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire utilises AI to tackle waiting lists
• Announcing the HTN Primary Care Awards 2024!
• Mid & South Essex ICB seeks integrated community dermatology service including teledermatology
• Cheshire and Merseyside ICS deploys Cynerio’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Platform across 17 trusts
• HTN Now panel discussion: digital integrated care, new models of care, and moving from reactive to proactive
• Digital strategy from Leeds Teaching Hospitals: “proactive” digital service, empowered workforce, innovation culture and more
• Plans for new laws to allow patient records to be made available across all trusts, GP surgeries and ambulance services in England
• Wearable tech in the NHS’s next phase of healthcare outcomes acceleration | Supporting patients with rare and chronic conditions
• Department of Health and Social Care launches open call for feedback on the NHS
• Feature: Harnessing technology to support and implement “Martha’s Rule” in the UK health service
• Two new reviews launched to examine patient safety, quality and governance within the health system
• £12 million government funding awarded to AI, VR and wearable tech pilots utilising innovations to reduce drug-related deaths
• Interview: Benedict Tan, group chief digital strategy officer and chief data officer at SingHealth, Singapore
• London Borough of Enfield to procure prevention and early intervention services worth £14m
• Report into CQC effectiveness highlights challenges around provider platform, regulatory platform and data quality
• Feature: Enovacom on interoperability and data sharing in digital mental health
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare shares plans to procure EPMA system
• Guy’s and St Thomas’ strategy to 2030 commits to being “innovation friendly health system”
• Interview: Owen Powell, ICT director at Central and North West London NHS on moving to cloud with the support of Rackspace Technology
• NHS Scotland extends £4m contract for colon capsule endoscopy managed service
• United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announces preferred EPR supplier
• Scottish healthcare innovators encouraged to apply for Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
• Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center recommends that providers appoint CISO
• Digital and data across Scotland: interviews, insight, strategy, innovations…
• Applications open for £4.2 million medtech accelerator for SMEs seeking external regulatory support
• Panel discussion: scaling health tech, new modes of collaboration, and future digital leadership
• NHS Shared Business Services opens framework opportunity for digital workplace solutions
• HTN Now: Isla’s digital pathway platform in supporting chronic wound care and caring for darker skin tones
• Announcing… the Health Tech Awards 2024 winners!
• Set your alarm: Health Tech Awards 2024 winners to be revealed at 8pm tonight!
• Featured interview: Byron George, co-founder and CEO of PCMIS Health Technologies, on digital mental health
• Health secretary speech to Royal College of General Practitioners highlights data as “the future of the NHS”
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB shares plans for £10m digital front door
• £118m in funding to create new hubs and partnerships to develop health technologies
• Poll: what should be the biggest priority for health and care cyber security?
• NHSE October board: data improvements, community mental health review, primary care surveys and more
• Case Study: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT Command Centre
• Pilot to see direct referrals for breast diagnostics from NHS App in Somerset
• Empowering healthcare through digital solutions by Max Gattlin: The deployment of EDATT Digital Assistant at Tudor Lodge
• ‘GreenTech in healthcare’ call launched in Ireland
• HTN Now: Establishing a culture of security, privacy and compliance – “it’s now part of frontline care delivery”
• Northern Care Alliance’s digital strategy for 2024-2030: in focus
• Two Essex trusts to establish framework for a data partner to support unified EPR programme
• AI across the NHS: supporting cancer identification, fracture detection and more
• Huma acquires eConsult and launches Workspace platform for health systems
• Northern FemTech and Women’s Health Tech Accelerator open for applications until 8 October
• EPRs: contracts, market analysis, go-lives, insights from digital leaders, usability and system alerts…
• Digital Health and Care Wales pilots dental access portal at Powys Teaching Health Board
• NHSE shares guides and analytic tools to support clinical and operational best practice
• Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals outline aims around digital and data in operational and improvement strategies
• North West London Acute Provider Collaborative appoints chief information officer across four trusts
• HTN Now: Best practices with healthcare security and Network Detection and Response
• NHSE’s patient safety strategy for primary care shares digital commitments around culture and patient involvement
• App to support Parkinson’s patients launches new features
• Feature: The current and future value of EPR solutions by Gary Mooney, InterSystems
• Poll: Where should digital investment go in the short term?
• DHSC plans social care case management system standards to support innovation
• Cambridge University Hospitals NHS revalidates against HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 standard
• “A digital healthcare service powered by cutting-edge technology” – Wes Streeting calls for tech- and data-driven NHS reform
• NHS South West region opens early engagement for digital neighbourhoods
• The role of digital in NHS South West London ICB’s board updates on winter planning, urgent and emergency care, and progress around the Board Assurance Framework
• Liverpool University Hospitals utilises remote monitoring platform for heart failure virtual ward
• Webinar recap: Leveraging Microsoft’s national tenant and OX.DH technology for consultations
• Digital Health and Care Wales issues £2 million contract notice for network as a service solution
• MHRA opens applications for AI Airlock pilot, seeking innovations offering patient benefits and novel AI applications
• Interview: Rich Temple, vice president and CIO at Deborah Heart and Lung Center, New Jersey
• Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT 2024-2029 maternity strategy highlights EPR plans for 2025
• SBRI Healthcare announces new funding for work-related digital innovations to support individuals with poor mental health
• Panel discussion: patient engagement, patient-centred solutions, and managing patient expectations around digital
• Panel discussion: digital trusts, digital teams, measuring value, and demonstrating impact
• Digital Health and Care Wales to procure digital maternity solution for NHS Wales
• Royal National Orthopaedic and University College London Hospitals announce EHR collaboration
• Feature: Rackspace Technology on the tangible benefits delivered to the NHS through leveraging cloud
• NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s plan to improve mental health services highlights data as “key enabler”
• NHSE shares winter priorities with plan to launch clinical and operational improvement programme
• Three SMEs awarded for national digital tobacco treatment service
• Interview: Kumbi Kariwo, Birmingham Community Healthcare, on utilising Isla for inclusive wound care
• UCL partners with YouTube Health to improve access to mental health information online
• £250,000 fund for innovation and digital tools in wound care launches
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn 2024-2030 strategy highlights plans for EPR and ‘digital first new hospital’
• The Reveal: Health Tech Awards 2024 Finalists
• Spotlight on the Darzi Report: industry reactions from leaders across the health sector
• HL7 shares guidance on standards-based AI and ML data lifecycle
• NICE to develop external assessment group framework for health tech worth £2m
• HSE announces online task force for Ireland, and launches cancer elearning programme
• North London Mental Health Partnership to procure digital risk management and incident reporting system
• Monash IVF goes live with OX.DH’s digital patient onboarding platform
• Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS: digital in focus
• Preventative health tech company Neko Health launches in London offering full body scan
• NHS England awards £37m contract for digital urgent and emergency care transformation
• Nottingham University Hospitals experiences critical IT incident; returns to business as usual
• Ireland HSE’s Digital Health Roadmap in focus, with aim for digital budget between 4% – 6% of overall healthcare expenditure
• HTN Now panel discussion: how can health and care tackle interoperability?
• Applications open for Accelerating FemTech support programme with October deadline
• Apple AirPods Pro awaits marketing authorisation for hearing aid functionality
• NHS England shares £60k opportunity for interactive e-learning for allied health professionals
• Scottish Government publishes strategy for Cyber Coordination Centre, with NHS NSS as a core partner
• Feature: bridging the gap between clinical expertise and technical innovation in pharmaceutical information licensing
• Imperial College Healthcare utilises mixed reality tech for training and patient care
• HTN Now panel discusses digital apps, wearables, self-care and personalised care
• BMA confirms mandatory extraction of data on GP cloud-based telephony system usage
• East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust awards 10-year EPR contract
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals outlines role of digital and data in research and development strategy
• South East Coast Ambulance Service shares data on automated texting for 999 callers
• Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB’s virtual citizen panel to help shape services
• Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust announces new chief digital and data officer
• Planned transition from DSPT to Cyber Assessment Framework, with mandatory supplier audit highlighted
• South East Coast Ambulance Service strategy to 2029 highlights plans for digitally-led service model
• DigitalHealth.London announces 17 SMEs selected for accelerator programme
• Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to develop framework for digital mental health services worth £35m
• Innovate UK reverses decision to award only half of ‘Women in Innovation’ funding grants
• University Hospitals of Derby and Burton upgrades to cloud-delivered unified communications platform
• University Hospitals Dorset appoints new chief digital officer
• NHSE shares guidance on single point of access functions, including role of digital and data
• Barts Health NHS Trust to procure site-wide patient monitoring system
• DHSC selects three local authorities to pilot digital NHS Health Check
• HTN Now panel discussion: GP Practice and PCN improvement through innovation in focus
• NHS England to extend digital purchasing system for digitisation of Lloyd George records
• NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership opens engagement around commercialisation strategy and delivery model for Wales
• Digital primary care: “Without data, you lack an evidenced understanding of a situation”
• Mid and South Essex ICS announces go-live of its shared care record
• NHS 111 service expanded to include 24/7 single point of access for mental health support
• King’s College Hospital London in Dubai migrates to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Partnership with libraries across England to support more people in using the NHS app
• Essex Partnership NHS awards contract for digital psychological therapies
• NHSE launches virtual wards operational framework; what good looks like, data, outcomes and metrics
• Digital Health and Care Wales issues notice for all Wales general practice data extraction and reporting solution
• Interview: Kate Renzenbrink, CCIO at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne
• Jersey’s Health and Community Services updates on electronic patient records, e-referrals, e-prescribing
• Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust rolls out paediatric vitals electronic system
• £700,000 grant for research into digital health intervention in enhancing post-surgery recovery
• EPR selected for Yorkshire and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
• NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and Alzheimer’s Society launch dementia innovation support
• NHS Shared Business Services shares framework agreement for insourcing of clinical services
• Audience views: biggest concerns for AI in healthcare, and the barriers to responsible AI
• Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS shares insight into primary-secondary interface work
• HTN Now: HTN and expert panellists discuss topics including interoperability, wearables and scaling health tech
• Artificial intelligence in the NHS: identifying abnormalities, tackling waiting lists, predicting disease and more
• Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies launches chatbot and mental health app
• Hampshire Hospitals implements platform to monitor and tackle air pollution at hospital sites
• NHS England outlines themes for emergency preparedness, resilience and response programme until 2030
• North West London ICS shares data on digital reach and access challenges
• South Central Ambulance Service opens engagement around electronic medicines tracking system procurement
• Panel discussion: will the reality of AI live up to current hype and how do you manage bias in healthcare data?
• Report from South London Listens highlights digital in work with local communities to improve access
• East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust maternity EPR goes live
• South Yorkshire ICS publishes data and insights strategy for 2024-2026, sharing plans for data platform and alliance
• Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals selects AGFA HealthCare radiology system
• Interview: Martin Sadler, executive director of IT and digital, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust
• £10k in funding available for innovations impacting patient care in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
• Coventry and Warwickshire ICS on tackling health inequalities through virtual hub
• North East London NHS Foundation Trust launches market engagement around ADHD tech
• East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust selects electronic patient record
• HTN International: interviews with health tech experts, funding and procurement highlights, strategy developments and more
• HTN Now: learnings from virtual wards and where next?
• NHS National Services Scotland shares strategic framework for 2024-2026, setting out transformation support
• DrDoctor moves into mental health with acquisition of personal health record platform Maia
• HTN Now: combatting ransomware in healthcare with network detection and response technology
• Interview: “There is a wider opportunity around different organisations working together” Louise Croxall, CNIO at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
• “It’s about asking how we can give clinicians back an hour of their day” HTN Now panel debate innovation in primary care
• NHS England issues pre-procurement notice for £18 million health and justice EPR
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust introduces patient portal with digital appointment letters
• Scottish Government commits £1m to tackling health inequalities in Greater Glasgow and Clyde
• Sussex Community NHS contracts £6m TPP EPR until 2034
• Coventry University PhD students develop digital solutions to improve access to healthcare in low-to-middle income countries
• HTN Now: NEC Rego on simplifying the referral process to support the right care, first time
• Digital health checks to increase cyber awareness for social care in the North East and Yorkshire
• NHS Greater Manchester Board shares update on primary care blueprint, including digital telephony and access
• Hull University Teaching Hospitals trials pre-hospital video triage scheme for stroke patients
• Blog: “Unlocking the insights that our data can provide us is central to our ambition” Mark Cubbon, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
• Health Innovation KSS shares equity guide with data and digital goals and recommendations
• AI Act, legal framework for Europe designed to support “trustworthy AI”, enters into force
• Digital and Data Capability Framework for Scotland sets out competency aims across technology and data
• Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care?
• West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust shares £300k opportunity for remote patient monitoring system
• North West London Acute Provider Collaborative shares strategy to 2027, highlighting data sharing and digital tech in enhancing patient care
• Oxford HIN collaborates with Otsuka on digital therapeutic app for depression
• Applications open for DigitalHealth.London’s Launchpad Programme
• HTN Now: virtual events next week on AI, virtual wards, primary care innovation and eHubs
• Engage Consult in first round of assurance for NHS Notify with new features added
• Flo Health raises over $200m for next phase of growth, achieves unicorn status
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals trials smart tech to reverse risks of diabetes-related nerve damage
• British Medical Association sets out vision to rebuild general practice, with push towards public health data model
• Amazon Web Services invests £8m to fund cloud infrastructure and storage for UK Biobank
• Agilio expands to pharmacy with acquisition of e-learning platform Mediapharm
• NHSE’s July board meeting highlights data around waiting lists, cancer care, mental health and more
• Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board launches PROMS collection platform
• Interview: “The use of data like this must become part of the day job” David Hammond and Claire Wedge, Wirral Community Health and Care
• Government invests £100m in five quantum research hubs to support technology advancements
• NHS England publishes pre-procurement notice for digital weight management programme
• Report on CQC operational effectiveness highlights “significant challenges” with portal, platform and data use
• NHS Blood and Transplant partners with Marvel for video awareness campaign
• Royal United Hospitals Bath research strategy highlights need to maximise potential of big data analytics
• HTN Now panel discussion: extending EPR value through mobility and connected devices
• Northampton General Hospital signs 10-year contract for deployment of cloud-based EPR
• NHS England shares clinical guidance for automation and functionality of patient portals
• Prostate Progress project to support research through combination of clinical data with patient-reported outcomes
• Innovate UK funds research project exploring how post-market intelligence can be utilised for safe acceleration of medical device adoption
• Lancashire and South Cumbria report highlights shared digital approach for trusts and data work to tackle inequalities
• Health Information Bill 2024 “lays foundations” for establishment of Digital Health Record across Ireland
• Coventry and Warwickshire ICS shares data on length of stay and waiting list reductions
• Think tank Policy Exchange sets out suggested priority actions for Labour’s NHS reform
• NHS Humber Health Partnership launches Flow project designed to evaluate and streamline patient journey
• Interview: Cheryl Fenwick Evans on data use within Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
• Huma secures $80m and launches Shopify style AI platform for digital healthcare industry
• West Herts Hospitals highlights virtual wards for rising almost 100 places in NHS league tables
• University Hospitals Birmingham plans digital experience solution
• Featured interview: Nick Westall of Athera Healthcare on utilising intelligence in the track and trace space
• Poll: which of Labour’s key areas of focus should take priority for the new government?
• King’s Speech 2024 outlines planned bills around cyber security and smart data
• Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative secures £88m in funding for EPR programme
• University of Huddersfield develops secure threat intelligence sharing platform to protect AI tools from cyber attacks
• Telehealth provider chosen for digital prehab trial in Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset
• Join us for HTN Now: live events exploring key health tech topics including cyber security, EPRs and more
• Featured interview: “All it takes is one misconfiguration to make a device vulnerable” Chad Holmes, Cynerio
• Leeds Teaching Hospital partners with Newton’s Tree to scale evaluation and implementation of AI
• Health and care ministers appointed with responsibility for key areas of NHS transformation
• National Network for Innovation In Sport and Health aims to accelerate growth of med tech across Swansea
• Black Country ICB shares £354k opportunity for digital inequalities support service
• Panel discussion: self-management and the future model of community care
• GP Patient Survey 2024 offers key insights into access to GP services and patient experiences
• Study highlights limitations of large language models around clinical diagnosis, interpretation of results and integration
• York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals plans e-Job software
• News in brief: MRI and machine learning research to tackle tumour diagnosis, new lab explores how tech can support the elderly, and more
• Independent investigation to provide “raw and frank assessment” of the NHS
• Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB highlights progress on patient empowerment, engagement and inclusion
• Norfolk and Waveney opens £1.17 million opportunity for children and young people’s mental health digital offer
• South Tyneside and Sunderland innovation report highlights progress on three-year vision
• Empowering the flow: exclusive Radiologist interviews show clinicians sharing “my life in flow”
• NHS Education for Scotland sustainability strategy and action plan focus on digital first approach
• Hammersmith Hospital study finds remote monitoring of heart attack patients less likely to be readmitted
• SBRI Healthcare competitions seek innovations around antimicrobial resistance, women’s health, stroke and urgent care
• Healthtech-1 raises £2.7 million in seed funding for tech in primary care
• Poll: what action is most needed in health and care cyber security in the short term?
• NHS England shares impact on appointments and procedures for South East London cyber attack
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals plan £2 million tender for digital histopathology reporting
• Progress update on data research from All-Island eHealth Hub for Cancer
• Wes Streeting named secretary for health and social care
• North East and North Cumbria opens engagement for gamified scenario based cyber security exercise
• Feature: remote patient monitoring and revolutionising healthcare with virtual wards
• General election, what does it mean for the NHS: Focus on waiting times, timely diagnosis and treatment, innovation, adoption, modernising, a new ‘Fit for the Future’ fund…
• NHSE shares update around new GP Connect Update Record functionality
• Health Tech Awards 2024: deadline to enter approaching on 9 July!
• GOSH explores use of AI for Parkinson’s and deep brain stimulation for epilepsy
• HTN Trends Survey: Healthcare Network Management
• Digital Health and Care Wales’ organisational strategy 2024-2030: in focus
• Norfolk and Waveney ICS shares update on Joint Forward Plan, including data used to map progress
• West Yorkshire ICB appoints new chief digital and information officer
• Electronic referral service for community opticians launched in Coventry and Warwickshire
• Industry view: what does the health tech landscape look like at present?
• Join HTN for live webinars over the summer, from getting the most out of your EPR to cyber security strategy
• National Data Guardian panel focuses on DSPT, cyber assessment framework and national data opt-out reform
• Queen Victoria Hospital awards £495k contract for CDC digital infrastructure
• Panel discussion: David Hammond, deputy chief strategy officer at Wirral Community and Julia Lake, associate director for digital (data) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals on bringing data to life
• NHS England publishes £4.2m cyber security opportunity
• Video game launched to boost recruitment for pharmacy roles at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole and Hull University Teaching Hospitals
• Community provider publishes procurement opportunity for AI transcribing software
• Interview: “There’s a lot of desire to see digital make a palpable difference to health outcomes in New Zealand” Ryl Jensen, CEO of Digital Health Association
• HTN Now: developing a blueprint for an online mental health support programme
• Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: South East
• Applications open for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s innovation fellowship
• Royal Free London clinical strategy highlights plans around population health data, AI in imaging and diagnostics, and more
• HIMSS makes recommendations on engagement of diverse communities for system design
• Jas Purewal, cyber consultant at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital: “getting board and senior management buy-in has been key”
• Planning approval for new digital and net zero hospital in NHS Lanarkshire
• Call for increased international investment into AI tech to support suicide prevention
• Patient data reportedly published online following cyber attack in London, with significant disruption expected
• Interview: “Technology is the central nervous system of a healthcare environment” Aaron Miri, SVP and CDIO at Baptist Health, Florida
• HTN is delighted to announce the judges for the Health Tech Awards!
• The Christie exploring potential of VR to reduce anxiety for children undergoing radiotherapy
• University of Manchester trials remote monitoring system for arthritis patients to submit data to EHR
• Primary care sees increase in online/video GP appointments in spring
• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals appoints new chief digital transformation officer
• Royal Oldham Hospital goes live with digital images for biopsies
• Research explores behaviour change techniques for diabetes self-management mobile apps
• CCube Solutions expands healthcare portfolio with acquisition of Thomson Screening Solutions
• AGFA HealthCare signs deal with Alliance Medical to support 120 sites
• Panel discussion: new models of care and pathway transformation
• University Hospitals of Derby and Burton launches maternity electronic system
• Birmingham Community Healthcare shares plans for becoming “more digitally-enabled and information-driven”
• NHS Dumfries & Galloway CEO updates local citizens on cyber attack published data
• Digital Health and Care Wales publishes organisational strategy for 2024-2030, highlighting need for “a digital and data revolution”
• Annual report for Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative highlights key digital projects and outcomes
• MHRA issues new guidance on transparency for machine learning medical devices
• Election 2024: what might the upcoming election mean for the future of healthcare and health technology?
• Scottish Government commits £3.6 million to Hospital at Home programme
• Panel discussion: digital, data and solutions across integrated care systems
• HTN Now: Kent and Medway ICS operational control centre – a collaborative approach
• Interview: Siuwin Wang, director of business analytics and health information management at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Canada
• Innovate UK Launchpad programme offers a share of £500k in funding for innovation in West Yorkshire
• Dr Tom Oakley, CEO, Feedback Medical on the future of multi-disciplinary teams
• AI skin cancer pilot launched in Tameside and Glossop
• Cancer Research UK roadmap focuses on tech innovation, data streams, digital twins and proactive measures
• HTN’s interview series: North East London ICB, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, and more
• Interview: Sam Hussain, CEO and co-founder of Log my Care, a digital care management platform designed to support efficiency and ease for social care staff
• Essex County Council launches £500k tender for digital support for unpaid carers
• Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: North West
• EPR go-live at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire set for 15 June
• Empowering the flow: exclusive Radiologist interviews show clinicians sharing “my life in flow”
• HTN Now webinars this month: new models of care, pathway transformation, utilising the Microsoft national tenant, and bringing data to life and using data for proactive care
• News in brief: HydroBubble device for children with cystic fibrosis in South Warwickshire, Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals transformation programme approval, and more
• Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust introduces CardMedic
• Interview: “The key with any innovation is being open to allowing creativity” Kate Warriner, Alder Hey and Liverpool Heart and Chest
• Belfast Health and Social Care Trust goes live with electronic patient record
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals shares impact of virtual wards since November launch
• Announcing the second group of judges for the Health Tech Awards 2024!
• Cambridge University Hospitals consultant awarded funding to explore AI and video to identify gastric cancer
• Barnet Enfield and Haringey and Camden & Islington open market engagement for local risk management and incident reporting system
• HTN’s health tech tour with international leaders from Canada, Seattle, Bermuda, New Jersey to Belgium
• HL7 International and openEHR International consider aligning standards and specifications
• Wigan GP utilises digital means to tackle fake medical news
• Real-time bed management system launched at Medway Maritime Hospital said to completely change the way the hospital operates
• Cyber attack on pathology provider disrupts services at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital
• Pilot of recovery support app at Kettering General Hospital leads to 15 percent reduction in post-op calls
• St George’s, Epsom and St Helier introduce app to support international nurses
• NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB publishes tender for population health management digital solution
• Proposed MedTech pathway from NHSE and NICE emphasises need for evidence-based advice and lifecycle approach
• Hanley Consulting appoints Dr Keith Grimes as chief digital health officer to support EDATT’s AI launch for primary care
• Digital means to support engagement methods in Birmingham and Solihull psychosis study
• News in brief: funding for AI in radiotherapy, robotic operations in London, funding for antibody discovery platform and more
• Finnish system Oy Apotti Ab partners with uPerform to enhance EHR education and support
• Interview: “The digital genie is out of the bottle, there’s no going back” Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, NHSE, on digital education in the NHS
• Barts Health introduces tech to help detect deterioration
• Panel discussion: how do you deliver healthcare transformation projects successfully?
• Bradford Teaching Hospitals utilises AI solution to support diagnostic accuracy in radiology
• Enter the Health Tech Awards 2024 – deadline coming up!
• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals’ annual plan for 2024/25 highlights EPR, digital infrastructure and more
• Poll: what’s the biggest challenge with interoperability across health and care?
• Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust achieves HIMSS stage six validation
• Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: East of England
• Department of Health and Social Care publishes £475k tender for digital skills support in social care
• First implementation stage of EPR for Guernsey delayed to 2025
• Cheshire and Merseyside ICB highlights potential of tech in empowering patients in Access Improvement Plan
• The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre expands digital appointment service
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals announces first phase of Innovation Village initiative
• Oxford University Hospitals publishes tender notice for ophthalmology EMR solution
• Announcing the first group of judges for the Health Tech Awards 2024!
• Scotland highlights progress made towards digital commitments including investing in cyber security skills and improving connectivity
• Panel discussion: adding value to your electronic patient record system
• Ireland sets out roadmap in Digital Health Framework for 2024 – 2030
• 40 suppliers named on NHS SBS digital health advisory framework agreement
• Cheshire and Merseyside to launch tender for new telehealth platform
• Interview: “Involving Londoners in our work is absolutely key” Joss Palmer, programme director at OneLondon
• NHSE board discusses plans to improve productivity with the NHS to “embrace 21st century tech”
• Salisbury, Great Western Hospitals and Royal United Hospitals Bath to implement shared EPR
• Panel discussion: strategies for empowering a digital workforce and developing workforce technology literacy
• HTN Now: How to leverage the Microsoft national tenant and technology from OX.DH for virtual consultations
• Poll: what area needs the most support for health tech suppliers to implement their innovations into the NHS?
• Featured interview: Ben Farrar of Traka on operational efficiencies for device management in healthcare
• North Central London ICB and Islington GP Federation pilot AI and WhatsApp solution for appointment scheduling
• Interview: “I think the most important thing is to have that MDT approach and to absolutely have clinical people embedded in your digital teams” – Natalie Hayes, CNIO at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
• Mental health charity’s app library offers “trusted apps” for young people
• NHSE to incentivise and increase virtual ward use and support front door services and flow through emergency departments
• AI and data partnership in North East to support care for diabetic eye disease
• Research explores attitudes and experiences around the use of digital mental health technology
• Panel discussion: how to take a pragmatic approach to digitising NHS records
• Poll: what does your organisation need most to improve patient flow?
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals pilots smartphone app for Parkinson’s management
• Case Study: Transforming the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine through digital innovation with OX.assisted reproduction
• Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: Midlands
• Digital system for comfort checks shown to “improve quality” of end-of-life care at University Hospitals Sussex
• Interview: “The multidisciplinary team approach has always been valued in healthcare, but I think it’s never been more important”, Sonam Vadera, speciality registrar in clinical radiology and fellow in clinical AI
• FDA qualifies Apple Watch’s AFib history feature to be used in clinical studies
• Help judge the esteemed Health Tech Awards!
• Scottish Care in the Digital Age outlines delivery plans for 2024/25
• MHRA launches AI Airlock regulatory sandbox to help identify challenges for regulating AI medical devices
• NHS England Cancer Programme update for Spring 2024 highlights innovations and new technologies across early diagnosis, treatment, and performance
• DHC Group announces acquisition of ECG On-Demand
• NHS trusts join national innovation support scheme focusing on testing innovations
• General practice guidance from NHS England focuses on using data to manage variation in demand and capacity
• Interview: “the ICB will give you the ability to build design squads, and user researchers that work across the ICB” Ian Roddis, director of digital, data and technology at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
• Health Innovation Manchester publishes three-year strategy focusing on accelerating access to innovations and optimising digital and data products to develop new models and pathways
• International news-in-brief: AI for clinical note taking, HIMSS digital maturity validations, women’s health tech accelerator and more
• £48 million announced to fund capabilities relating to digital pathways, demand and capacity tools for ICBs
• Airedale General Hospital goes live with geospatial system for RAAC management
• NHS Dorset ICB App Library sees 5,400 app recommendations made
• Moray health data pilot project focuses on citizen data ownership and a proactive approach to early intervention
• 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
• ICBs to pilot new ways of optimising primary care and further deliver on the Fuller Stocktake vision
• Patient communication and engagement learnings from across health and care
• News in brief: EPR expertise contracts, competition for research centres, insight hub in Nottinghamshire, and more
• Panel discussion: considerations, approaches and learnings for healthcare cloud strategies
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust launches pilot utilising tech to reduce ward noise levels
• South West Yorkshire Partnership and Leeds Beckett collaborate to digitise ADHD and autism service
• Interview: Alcidion’s chief medical officer Paul Deffley and healthcare consultant Amanda Thornton on success with patient flow
• Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust launches new digital data centre
• HTN Now in May: live discussions on empowering the digital workforce to adding value to your EPR
• NHS National Services Scotland to adopt cloud workflow solution across all GP practices
• Feature: navigating the challenges of patient flow in clinical settings
• North East London NHS Foundation Trust deploys e-discharge module to support virtual ward delivery
• Two new EPR functionalities deployed at Medway Hospital
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Digital Vision 2024 sets out initiatives including new shared care record
• SBRI Healthcare awards £3.2m to 22 innovations designed to “improve care and accelerate a greener NHS”
• Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: South West
• “If we are always successful then I’d argue we’re not being innovative at all”: panel discussion on international digital healthcare development
• Cynerio and IT Health on securing patient data for safer care
• North Bristol NHS Trust holds ‘green operating day’ including use of tech to minimise carbon footprint
• Panel discussion: supporting the NHS workforce with digital skills and digital careers
• Interview: “The impact starts with small transformations” Inderpal Kohli, VP and CIO at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey
• Digital Health and Care Wales to move to cloud pathology platform
• Interview: “Transformation is people, process and technology” Stephen Bromhall, CDIO at East of England Ambulance Service
• West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership launches website for eye health
• NHS Medway clinical strategy highlights digital and data plans including frailty virtual ward and electronic pharmacy systems
• East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust awards contract for EPR implementation support
• Explore HTN International with us, including our first virtual panel discussion on global digital healthcare
• Scotland’s Genomic Medicine Strategy 2024-2029 highlights need for “secure, scalable digital infrastructure”
• Royal Sussex County Hospital launches Health Information Point pilot
• University Hospitals of Derby and Burton holds ‘Paper2Pixels’ events to streamline digitisation of paper records
• Panel discussion: the future of patient portals – “the decisions in design and technology implementation we take now, will critically impact the future of healthcare delivery”
• News in brief: ICS forms single point of access for talking therapies, chatbot supports new parents in Greater Manchester, and more
• Chemotherapy patients at Royal Free offered “immersive calming visuals” with VR headsets
• Barnsley Hospital launches smartphone app offering animated tour for children having surgery
• Studio engages with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Wellbeing Hub for “truthful representation” of psychosis in game