Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is trialing virtual reality (VR) technology, with a view to helping reduce anxiety during medical procedures for young people and children. By introducing VR, the trust hopes it will play a role to help make injections ‘less scary’ for patients, and help to […]
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IBM sells healthcare data and analytics assets to Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners, a global investment firm, has acquired a selection of tech giants IBM’s healthcare data and analytics assets. The two companies have penned an agreement that will see Francisco Partners snap up a number of data sets and products for its portfolio, including Health Insights, MarketScan, Clinical Development, Social […]
Imperial to create heat map of loneliness in London
Imperial College London’s School of Public Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Hammersmith and Fulham Council, are working together on a new project to map loneliness in London. The aim of the work is to ‘highlight the scale of the issue’ and to help better target services. Imperial is […]
HTN Now Awards 2022 – meet the winners!
HTN Now Awards – meet the winners After another fantastic evening at the HTN Now Awards 2022, we wrap up the celebrations by sharing a feature all about the winners. Earlier today, we announced the winning and highly commended entries across all 10 of our awards categories, sharing in the […]
Video: EPR implementations – five critical paths and a cutover
Ideal Health helped us to get our first full-length HTN Now event of the year underway by presenting a live webcast on Electronic Patient Record (EPR) implementations. Hosted by Andi Taylor, EPR Implementation Programme Director and Consultant, the session – entitled ‘five critical paths and a cutover’ – covered a […]
Exclusive: Huma announces acquisition of iPLATO Healthcare to expand remote monitoring reach
Global digital technology company Huma Therapeutics has acquired patient engagement software specialists, iPLATO Healthcare, HTN can reveal. The move will see the two health tech giants join forces to advance their remote patient monitoring offering for the UK primary care sector. Huma, which uses its technology to power ‘hospitals at […]
NHSX publishes standards roadmap for interoperability and care records
NHSX has revealed plans to develop and publish a new ‘standards roadmap’ for care record and interoperability standards in England. According to the organisation, the roadmap is set to provide support and include access to a ‘system-wide overview’ of the standards proposed, as well as opportunities to engage with the […]
HTN welcomes CareFlow Medicines Management as HTN Now headline sponsor
HTN is delighted to welcome CareFlow Medicines Management as headline sponsor of HTN Now 2022. HTN Now, a unique online event series, takes place throughout the year to bring together the health tech community and share, discuss and collaborate on a variety of topics focused on health technology for the […]
Interview Series: Glenn Winteringham, Group Chief Digital Officer at Royal Free London
For this instalment of our Interview Series, the first of 2022, HTN spoke to Glenn Winteringham, Group Chief Digital Officer for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, about the latest developments in their digital transformation programmes. In this piece, Glenn guides us through the Royal Free’s Electronic Patient Record journey, […]
Video: NHSX’s Blueprinting case studies – building a digital future
The NHSX Blueprinting team joined us at the latest HTN Now series, concluding our first day of events with a presentation and panel discussion on Blueprinting. The team were joined by a number of health tech professionals from NHS trusts, who shared their experiences and case studies. Speakers at the […]
