Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust has expanded their text service to provide quick advice for carers and parents. Parents of children and young adults aged five to 19 can now access support through ParentLine, a confidential text messaging service run by Dorset HealthCare’s School Nursing team. The service aims […]
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HTN Now: Apira’s lessons learned from digital ICS experiences
Our final HTN Now event of 2022 focused on all things digital integrated care systems, and we were joined by a team from Apira for a discussion on the lessons learned from their digital ICS experiences. Apira, a digital healthcare consultancy, supports organisations on a national, regional and local level […]
Royal Marsden, Institute of Cancer Research and ICL study use of AI in identifying risk of cancer return
A recent study from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with The Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London (ICL) has suggested that AI could help in identifying the risk of cancer returning in non-small lung cancer (NSCL). The ongoing study, called ‘Optimising Cancer Treatment surveillance and […]
HTN Now: digital records management for patient records
At our recent HTN Now event focusing on digital transformation we were joined by Vijay Magon, CEO of CCube Solutions. Vijay spoke about electronic document and records management for patient records, discussing options, approaches, interoperability and integration with electronic patient record systems. The company has supported healthcare providers to digitise for […]
NHS priorities and operational planning guidance 2023/24 sets out digital focus
The NHS has published a document in which it sets out its priorities for 2023/34, along with operational planning guidance to support these priorities. NHS CEO Amanda Pritchard begins by noting that the years ahead are expected to be challenging and as such the planning approach “reflects both our new […]
CQC publishes revised plan for transformation and tackling health inequalities
Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released a revised approach and plan for transformation, focusing on how they will deliver their strategy and tackle health inequalities. They aim to introduce a new regulatory approach for health and care providers, local authorities and integrated care systems; to establish new regulatory leadership shaping […]
Industry view: reflections from the health tech community on 2022
With the year drawing to a close, we put out some questions to the healthcare community, exploring reflections on 2022 from a health tech perspective. We asked what digital progress has been made in the NHS in 2022; what teams have achieved; and what are the projects, programmes and strategies […]
Milton Keynes University Hospital implements AI-powered software to help stroke patients
An AI-powered software known as ‘e-Stroke’ has been implemented in Milton Keynes to help care for stroke patients. The software analyses computerised tomography (CT) scans, identifying any areas of the brain that may be damaged and automatically flagging them to doctors. It is hoped that this will aid doctors in making […]
Andy Webster and Georgie Duncan at Leeds Teaching Hospitals on their EHR, criteria led discharge, future plans
Welcome back to another episode of HTN Let’s Talk! For this edition of our podcast, we interviewed Andy Webster (CCIO) and Georgie Duncan (Associate CCIO) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. We discussed the implementation of their electronic health record (EHR), how its gone developing their own, challenges, benefits, future plans and more. […]
Poll: If you could solve one challenge in the health tech industry, what would it be?
For our final article of the year as part of our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we took to LinkedIn to ask our audience of healthcare professionals, if you could solve one challenge in the health tech industry, what would it be? A wide range of people took part in […]
