New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London indicates that the mental health and wellbeing of frontline NHS healthcare workers can be supported and improved through use of the mental wellbeing app Koa Foundations. Designed by Koa Health, the app provides a library […]
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News in Brief: Norfolk & Waveney ICS funding for digital social care, Blackpool trials PIFU tech, Brainomix AI roll out software in Hungary
There is plenty happening in the health tech community – here is our news in brief to find out about some of the stories that have caught our eye this past seven days. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals trials new follow-up system Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is trialing a new system to support patients when […]
HTN Now: Imprivata on empowering your ICS with a digital identity strategy
For our latest edition of HTN Now focusing on digital integrated care systems, we held a webinar with Imprivata to explore the role of a digital identity framework to support transformation across health and care systems. The session was led by Andy Kinnear, Consultant and former CIO, and Andy Wilcox, Senior […]
HTN Digital Primary Care: Generated Health on remote monitoring and behavioural health
For HTN Digital Primary Care, we were joined by a team from Generated Health to discuss the benefits and challenges of remote monitoring, with focus on behavioural health, intelligent messaging systems in healthcare, how this can be implemented into clinical practice and what the future may hold. Generated Health run […]
Feature: Creating the digital health workforce of the future
Feature by Highland Marketing How are trusts and health tech suppliers going to find the people they need to develop, deploy and optimise critical clinical information systems in the future? Highland Marketing’s advisory board invited Paul Rice from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to outline how he has been […]
North West London ICS signs deal for cloud-based interoperability service
North West London Integrated Care System (ICS) has signed a deal with InterSystems for its cloud-based interoperability service. Through a five-year partnership, the ICS will introduce InterSystems Health Connect Cloud, with an aim to facilitate electronic data flows between care settings and promote digital transformation across the region. The technology will be made […]
Breast self-check device wins UK Dyson award
The winner of the UK James Dyson Award 2022 has been awarded to a device to assist women in performing monthly breast self-checks. Recent graduates of Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, Debra Babalola and Shefali Bohra, identified through their research that there […]
Manchester University NHS EPR goes live
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is now live with its new electronic patient record (EPR) system from Epic. In the early hours of Thursday morning, the system went live, with the news also shared on Twitter: We're buzzing that #HiveisLive! 🙌🎉Our Trust-wide Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system is now live […]
SBRI Healthcare funding opens for net zero clinical innovations
SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network, has opened a new funding competition ‘Delivering a Net Zero NHS Clinical Innovation’. The funding competition is open for innovations that can help transform carbon intensive areas of clinical care and complex care pathways. There are four specific challenge […]
Blackpool Teaching children’s hearing services launch text message reminders
A text message reminder service at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hearing Service has launched with an aim to reduce missed appointments. The trust said the reminder service is being introduced to tackle “on average one in five patients missing their appointments without informing the service in advance”. The trust also […]
