For our latest HTN Now panel discussion on the topic of building a great digital team, we were joined by panellists including Tom Mann, digital transformation lead at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Penny Kechagioglou, chief clinical information officer and deputy chief medical officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire; […]
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Guiding pathway principles and gold standard case studies from NHSE on technology enabled care referrals
NHS England has published guidance around technology enabled care (TEC) referrals, providing direction on how urgent community response (URC) and TEC provision can be linked, including guiding principles designed to support understanding of how to establish and maintain pathways from TEC providers into UCR, and “gold standard” case studies. The […]
Great Western Hospitals digital strategy places focus on access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its seven-year Digital Strategic Plan, which focuses on the five priority areas of access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy and sets a vision to help improve the trust’s digital maturity. The strategy’s vision is linked with the delivery of the trust’s […]
10 successful applicants announced for Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre health tech accelerator
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) has announced the successful applicants for its 2024 Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme, with a total of 10 start-ups and SMEs from across the UK selected to benefit from specialist funding and support, including companies using AI, wearables and algorithms to improve health […]
HTN Now Awards 2023/24: meet the winners!
After a busy few months here at HTN in the lead-up to the HTN Now Awards 2023/24, and hours of judging from NHS health tech professionals, we can finally announce our winners and runners-up. The HTN Now awards provide a chance to showcase and celebrate hard work and innovative thinking […]
AI in research: proposals for informed consent, ChatGPT in diagnosis and treatment, and recommendations for tackling disparities
We’ve taken a look at three journals recently published in Frontiers on the topic of artificial intelligence in health, from an exploration of ChatGPT’s role in diagnosis and treatment, to the impact of AI on health disparities in research, to proposed guiding principles for the design of optimal informed consent […]
Welsh Nursing Care Record upgraded to single national database
An upgrade to the Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) has seen eight separate databases replaced with a single national instance, in a move hoped to bring efficiencies in managing, updating and applying new features, as well as improvements in patient care, patient access, and access to information across NHS Wales. […]
Sciensus acquires patient app and physician support platform Vinehealth
Pharma services business Sciensus has acquired Vinehealth, a cancer-focused health tech business offering a patient app and physician support platform, in a move designed to expand Sciensus’s digital and patient support offering. Vinehealth was founded by former NHS physician Rayna Patel and data scientist Georgina Kirby, with the website sharing […]
Engagement invited on new draft primary care strategy launched in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB is inviting the public to have their say on its draft Primary Care Strategy, which has the aim of transforming general practice, community pharmacy, optometry and dentistry. The strategy tackles challenges facing primary care including high demand, reduced access to services, ageing populations, […]
NHS England £16 million opportunity for “Tiger Teams” to support EPR delivery
NHS England has published a £16 million prior information notice for the provision of “Tiger Teams” to support electronic patient record delivery. Defined as “a partner to create an experienced, multi-skilled, rapid response intervention service”, it aims to support the Frontline Digitisation programme, enabling healthcare providers to implement an EPR […]
