Cera, a digital-first healthcare-at-home company, is trialing an artificial intelligence powered voice assistant for the UK care sector. Known as Siri for care, the application aims to support patients track symptoms through a series of questions using automated phone calls. The pilot will see individuals asked questions to monitor their health, with answers […]
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Blog: Step up for the NHS digital funding hokey-cokey
Last year’s Budget set aside £2.1 billion for NHS IT, and the autumn statement confirmed the capital is still there, but it looks like most of the money is headed for Frontline Digitisation. The Highland Marketing advisory board considers how this pattern of putting money into health tech, taking it […]
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB opens market engagement for remote monitoring tech
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board has shared a future opportunity notice to seek views from suppliers of digital remote monitoring solutions. Through a prior information notice published on the government’s tender portal, the ICB notes it has “been piloting a number of digital remote monitoring solutions […]
Government announces £175 million funding initiative to boost genomics research
The UK Government has announced a funding initiative to support work on genetic disease treatment, cancer pathways and tackling health inequalities. To support patients with cancer and children born with treatable rare genetic diseases, £175 million has been provided in funding to boost genomics research as part of a three […]
NHS Confed and the Health Foundation share practical improvement lessons to cope with winter pressures
NHS Confederation and the Health Foundation have shared their six improvement lessons to support leaders and teams with winter pressures through a blog by Penny Pereira, Q Managing Director for the Health Foundation, and Dr Amar Shah, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust. […]
Industry view: where will tech have the biggest impact within an ICS?
It’s time for the second part of our latest industry view feature, focusing on technology within integrated care systems. In this edition, we pose the question of where, within an ICS, technology will have the biggest impact. Without further ado, here’s what our respondents had to say… Nick Weston, Chief […]
HTN Now: Intelligent Lilli on deploying care technology to positively impact the whole system
At a recent edition of HTN Now we heard from Nick Weston, Chief Commercial Officer for Intelligent Lilli, along with their Chief Care Officer Fiona Brown, for a discussion on where and how to deploy care technology to positively impact the whole system. Fiona began by acknowledging the current pressures […]
TPP letter to the NHS “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated”
Frank Hester, OBE, founder and CEO of TPP, has taken to social media to share a letter to the NHS on his views of the costs of electronic patient record systems. TPP has commented that “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated” and “call for a time […]
Discussion: Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust on their approach to waitlist validation
We were joined by James Rawlinson, CIO at South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw ICS and Director of Informatics at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, along with Helen Williams, Transformation Lead at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, for a live panel discussion on their approach to validating their waiting lists. On projects […]
UK Research and Innovation pre-announce funding opportunity to accelerate health research
A funding opportunity has been pre-announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to develop innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies which can be applied to health challenges. It aims to bring researchers together across contrasting sectors and disciplines in order to change how health research is conducted. Projects are expected to […]
