YouTube has announced plans to introduce new features that will platform authoritative health information from trusted sources and help users to locate and identify reliable content. Aimed at the US audience for now, Dr Garth Graham, the Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships for YouTube, detailed […]
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Feature: Eva Health Technologies’ eVacc platform piloted to support Phase 3 NHS vaccine workflows
Ahead of Eva Health Technologies’ live talk at the HTN Digital Primary Care event on 4 August 2021, we decided to find out more about the company, its CEO, and eVacc, the health tech provider’s new co-admin, point-of-care vaccination platform. Eva Health will be joining us in August to discuss […]
Chelsea and Westminster’s Dr Ryan Dhunnookchand: app building to up-skill staff on a coronavirus ward
Last week, HTN covered the nationwide release of the free-to-use Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff that have been redeployed from their regular roles to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-designed and developed by Imagineear Health and a team from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (which includes both Chelsea and […]
Google Cloud to introduce Healthcare Data Engine for interoperability
Google Cloud has announced the private preview of a new solution – called the Healthcare Data Engine – which it says will enable interoperability by ‘harmonising’ longitudinal patient records to improve care, research, and procedures. Described as an ‘end-to-end solution for healthcare and life sciences organisations’ which brings together data, […]
Royal Marsden plans new Digital Health Record
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has announced a new programme to implement a Digital Health Record (DHR) to replace its electronic patient record system. Following recent business case approval from its Board, The Royal Marsden will partner with Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and begin the roll-out of […]
News in brief: menopause app piloted for staff at NHS trust, HSBC backs GenesisCare cancer tech, first Turing AI research fellows
August has arrived, which means only one thing for us at HTN – it’s time for our first ever Digital Primary Care Conference. Find out more about the agenda for Wednesday – which features keynotes from Dr Nikki Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement, and […]
CNWL and North Central London CCG launch remote monitoring pilot
Central and North West London NHS FT and North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have launched a remote monitoring pilot with my mhealth for patients with diabetes. Through the introduction of the myDiabetes app, patients can access expert advice, education, nutritional guidance and exercise programmes. Patients can also capture metrics […]
East Kent Hospitals pilots Bluetooth patient tracking
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has launched a pilot of a Bluetooth patient flow solution, from technology company MYSPHERA. The company’s first installation of the technology in the UK is providing the trust with a patient tracking system, to locate patients at any moment on the trust’s surgical […]
Join Dr Nikki Kanani, Dr Minal Bakhai, Dr Nisha Mehta, Dr Osman Bhatti, innovators and many others, this week for HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
Join us for the first ever HTN Digital Primary Care Conference 2021 on Wednesday, 4th August 2021! The one-day virtual conference kicks off at 8.30am, with an innovation session from communications specialist X-on, followed by our keynote speaker Dr Nikki Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care for NHS England and […]
Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership picks openEHR platform
Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership has chosen an openEHR platform for its regional medicines record. After being awarded the contract, Better will support the Partnership in delivering the record to a population of 1.8 million, through both its openEHR platform and Better Meds software. The aim is […]
