In a recent blog post, Google Cloud’s global director for healthcare strategy and solutions Aashima Gupta and head of health AI Greg Corrado highlight how three early adopters have used Google’s generative AI Med-PaLM 2 to support their organisations, through standardising processes, supporting creation of medical documentation, and more. Med-PaLM […]
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Federated data platform progress update and procurement announcement in autumn
NHS England has published a blog post by Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer at NHS England, to highlight it expects to announce the successful supplier for its procurement of software to connect data across the NHS in a “federated data platform” in autumn. Considering the case for ensuring […]
Study presents learnings and best practice for scaling digital health interventions in resource-limited settings
A study published in frontiers journal has put forward a case study proposing an “omni-channel, outcomes-focused approach to scale digital health interventions in resource-limited populations”. It offers “real-world evidence of successful scaling strategies for an mHealth intervention in a resource limited setting”, from a family health intervention in India. The […]
Royal Marsden partners with Automata to increase cancer genomic testing
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has announced a partnership with Automata, an automation company, with an aim to facilitate increased cancer genomic testing capacity through robotic automation and expand the range of tests the specialist cancer centre can perform. The collaboration will develop an automated system for clinical cancer […]
Digital Health and Care Wales awards £25 million laboratory information system contract
Digital Health and Care Wales has awarded a contract for laboratory information management services with an estimated value of nearly £25 million to InterSystems. The procurement was for “fully managed, cloud-based services to support the management and operational delivery for all NHS Wales laboratories” and all specialities within them. It […]
How can electronic document management add value to your EPR?
Earlier this year for our online event series HTN Now, we welcomed industry electronic document management expert Vijay Magon, who shared his 30 years’ of insights on the subject of creating a single true source of patient information. Vijay, from CCube Solutions, highlighted the challenges around unstructured data and how […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ data tool identifies risk-factors to support prioritisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has developed a new IT platform capable of identifying “high risk” diabetes patients from waiting lists, with the trust sharing how the platform is “enabling them to be prioritised for urgent care and contributing to a reduction in health inequalities”. A data informatics […]
News in brief: neonatal EPR launch in Calderdale, new funding for tech-enabled care qualification in Scotland, patient support websites in London, and more
It’s time for another news in brief round-up – let’s take a look at some of the stories that caught our eye recently. New EPR launches for neonatal patients at Calderdale and Huddersfield The neonatal unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital has recently gone live with electronic patient record, BadgerNet, which […]
Sussex trusts open tender for dental patient management software service
Sussex Community NHS Trust and East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust have opened a joint tender to procure a dental patient management software service over a three-year contract, with the estimated value for each trust standing at £25,000 to £250,000 for the full contract length. The procurement has launched as the […]
Primary care recovery plan update: more than 1,000 practices sign up for digital telephony
More than 1,000 general practices have signed up to upgrade their phone systems from analogue to digital as part of the government’s plans to modernise NHS primary care services, according to an update from the Department of Health and Social Care on progress made around the primary care recovery plan […]
