Barts Health NHS Trust, UCLPartners and Maldaba have rolled-out a new app to support people with cognitive impairment, specifically adults with a learning disability. The ‘Hear Me Now’ app and content-sharing remote service can be used to record information such as text, photo, audio, or video which is then stored in ‘boxes’ in the […]
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Alder Hey enters co-partnership with NeedleSmart
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has entered into a co-development partnership with NeedleSmart, a specialist solution to needle safety and closed loop data. The partnership will see the development of the company’s hardware and data solutions accelerated, aiming to bring forward the solutions into healthcare. Consisting of three phases, […]
Interview Series: Professor John Sharry of SilverCloud discusses digital mental health tools
HTN continues its exploration of digital mental health by talking to SilverCloud’s Co-Founder and Clinical Director, Professor John Sharry, about his interest in children and young people’s mental health (CYP) and what the future could have in store for the entire sector, as it continues to expand. A psychotherapist and […]
AccuRx raises £27.5 million
AccuRx, a health-tech company focused on ‘bringing together everyone involved in a patient’s care’ has raised £27.5 million in Series B funding. The company announced the news this week, with plans for the funding to be used to ‘build a patient-centred communication platform for the healthcare system’. Supported by Lakestar, a […]
News in Brief: rapid sensors detect wound infections in Scotland, 1,000 mums register for digital maternity service, HDR UK announces Global Research Director
Welcome to our latest news in brief, where we round-up some of the most interesting news stories impacting the health tech sector at the moment. It’s set to be a busy few days, as our HTN Now September 2021 event, which takes place over four days from 20 to 23 […]
4 days of health tech, HTN Now takes place next week
We’re only a few days away from the next edition in the HTN Health Tech for the Now series, when we welcome a fantastic group of people joining us to share their learnings and advice, as we delve into their digital programmes. There’s still time to register, with tickets free […]
Video: Eva Health explain co-admin eVacc software at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
At our Digital Primary Care conference last month, we hosted a variety of live webcasts and discussion sessions from healthcare providers, NHS representatives and industry experts. We’ve been recapping some of the sessions over the past month, with one of the most topical for September being Eva Health’s talk on […]
Interview Series: Insource discuss how a unified data platform can support ICSs and target the NHS backlog
HTN caught up with the team at Insource to discuss the company’s data platform and what it can offer to NHS trusts. As reported by HTN, Insource announced the acquisition of Gooroo earlier this year. The company – which specialises in advanced capacity planning with particular expertise in elective waiting times and […]
Babylon reports revenue growth of 472 per cent
Babylon Health has published its financial and operating results for the six months ending 30 June 2021, reporting revenue growth of 472 per cent and reducing its loss for the period. The company’s revenue totalled £93.1 million, up from £16.2 million for the period up to June 2020, an increase of […]
Gloucestershire Hospitals picks new content services platform from Hyland Healthcare
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) has chosen Hyland Healthcare’s OnBase content services platform to boost its IT infrastructure. The move is part of Gloucestershire’s wider digital transformation strategy. The trust is set to switch a ‘core element’ of its electronic medical records system to OnBase, with the aim of […]
