It’s week two of 2022, and we’re here with our second news-in-brief instalment, covering some of the health tech news that has caught our attention over the past few days. If you have a news tips for us, or would like to chat and tell HTN about your work, we […]
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Feature: Inhealthcare leads the way in remote monitoring with patients and clinicians voicing support for digital health technologies in the NHS
Feature by Bryn Sage, CEO, Inhealthcare Some patients like remote monitoring because it makes them feel reassured about their NHS care. Others enjoy the freedom of being able to live independently with long-term health conditions. For Gurmit Bhamra, who joined Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership’s new service for patients […]
Hologram patients to support CUH clinical training
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS FT and the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, have partnered with US tech company GigXR, to introduce hologram patients as part of mixed reality clinical training. The technology provides an immersive 3D learning application to help students assess, diagnose, and treat conditions through holographic simulations. […]
Video: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust’s EPR journey
Towards the end of last year, Graham King, Chief Information Officer at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust delivered a live webcast on the trust’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) journey. Part of our HTN Now Focus event on EPR systems, Graham’s presentation focused on the implementation and project ‘Paperlite’, […]
CNWL launches new local apps library with ORCHA
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) has created a new local apps library for patients, in partnership with ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications). The Health and Wellbeing App Library is a joint effort from both organisations to provide patients with a […]
Health and Social Care Committee’s latest report calls for tech and digital roadmap
The UK’s Health and Social Care Committee has released its latest report on tackling the healthcare backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes publishing further recommendations related to health tech and digital developments. Entitled ‘Clearing the Backlog caused by the pandemic’, the 46-page document looks at the scale and […]
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole switch to digital letters
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) is using digital letters for its Outpatients services, with Inpatient letters due to go live in early 2022. The move means that patients are able to view appointment letters on their smartphones – providing the ability to confirm, cancel or rebook appointments […]
Agenda released for HTN Now January
Join HTN and colleagues for four days of live health tech content via our first HTN Now event of 2022. Through live webinars, interviews, features and our awards, there’s lots happening across 17-20 January. As always, please register here, to join us live or to receive the recordings. For now, here’s […]
NHS App reaches 22 million users
NHS Digital has announced the NHS App has reached a new milestone of 22 million users. Since the introduction of the NHS COVID Pass on 17 May, 18 million users have registered with the app. In the announcement, NHS Digital highlighted some of the achievements to date, including a total […]
Babylon acquires US health engagement company
Babylon has announced its latest acquisition, adding Higi, a consumer health engagement company, to its product portfolio. The move brings remote monitoring capabilities, through Higi’s ‘Smart Health Stations’, which are said to be located within five miles of 73 per cent of the US population; through health-checking kiosks found in grocery […]
