Over the past few weeks the HTN team has worked with a fantastic team of judges, and we’re now delighted to share with you the finalists in the HTN Now Awards! Following 1,000 hours of judging and the HTN team working on a series of features – you can now […]
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Royal College of Occupational Therapists publishes data and innovation strategy
The Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) has published a data and innovation strategy to support occupational therapists with data management. As well as guidance and instruction, RCOT is providing its therapists with resources and links, and the opportunity to share their ‘data literacy learning and development needs’ through a […]
RNOH adopts digital patient pathway tech
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has launched a new solution to digitise referral managmeent, consent and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. The Pathpoint solution, from Open Medical, was implemented initially in 2020 to digitise patient care pathways, and was first implemented to receive and process trauma referrals. The solution […]
Central and North West London NHS goes live with TPP’s clinician app
Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) has introduced a new TPP app across some of its mental health wards. TPP’s clinician app Brigid, the mobile addition to SystmOne, is designed for staff to input key information from anywhere. Following a successful three-week pilot, the trust has now […]
Feature: Medicines, sickle cell, blood pressure, respiratory conditions and COPD remote monitoring
This time last year, HTN discussed the rapid rise of remote monitoring, reflecting on the surge of adoption of technologies that had allowed patients to be monitored at home, or outside of traditional hospital settings, during the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Although the innovations and […]
NHS Digital publishes sustainability report and future direction
In December 2021, NHS Digital released its Sustainability Annual Report for the period 2020 – 2021, ahead of the publication of a five-year strategy exploring processes and frameworks and possible new ways of working. The publication highlights the impact of technologies such as MS Teams and communication tools as part […]
Video: the challenges and benefits of validating data in mental health
Our first HTN Now Focus event of 2022 took place on 10 January, with sessions focused on how to support digital mental health. The first of our two live presentations of the day featured the specialist digital transformation consultancy, Ideal Health, and focused on the challenges and benefits of validating […]
News in Brief: GDE impact, five trusts to introduce imaging system, Medway tenders for health check tech
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 […]
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. […]
