Innovate UK has awarded a six-figure grant to cloud telephony specialist X-on to support an app to help eliminate GP practice-patient call costs. The app will mean calls between a patient and their GP are free and in turn reduce the cost to GP practices for outgoing calls by around […]
Other News
NHS Digital and PRSB publish new social care standards
New social care standards have been published by NHS Digital and the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) to support how information is recorded and shared across health and social care. Over 1,000 health and care professionals have supported the development of the standards through an open consultation process. The five new […]
Greater Manchester launches app to support recovery of wounds
A new App developed by Healthy.IO has been launched across Greater Manchester to help support the treatment and recovery of wounds. The wound-measuring technology helps to provide an accurate measurement of a wound in two minutes, to help a digital assessment team over time calculate the progress of a wound and understand […]
FHIR standards in healthcare: an interview with Lyniate
In this interview feature, Matt White speaks with John Mitchell, Implementation Consultant at Lyniate, and James Hardacre, Senior Implementation Consultant specialising in Rhapsody by Lyniate, to explore and discuss FHIR standards. Can you briefly take me through the background to FHIR and HL7? James: I used to be heavily focused […]
Video: Royal Colleges 3.0, delivering best practice as code
For HTN Now November we hosted a session with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, focusing on its Digital Child Growth Assessment programme. We welcomed Dr Marcus Baw, GP and Software Developer, Dr Simon Chapman, Paediatrician, King’s College Hospital NHS FT and South London and the Maudsley Hospitals NHS […]
Video: Smart MedTech – Digitalisation of the clinical Interface
On 4th November as part of the HTN Health Tech for the Now series, we welcomed Cliff Kirby, CEO at NeedleSmart. This session focused on an innovative technology to capture data at the clinical interface. Cliff opened: “there is a lack of meaningful data from a physical process to a virtual […]
Andy Callow, CDIO, Kettering General Hospital: Embracing the potential of the Cloud
By Andy Callow, Chief Digital Information Officer at Kettering General Hospital (Twitter: @andy_callow) As part of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, Andy Callow, CDIO at Kettering General explores the potential of the Cloud in healthcare and argues why it makes sense. What is the NHS Waiting For? In behavioural […]
Video: NHSX Remote Monitoring Keynote
For HTN Now November we were joined by NHSX for a keynote session focusing on remote monitoring. Tara Donnelly, Chief Digital Officer and Breid O’Brien, Deputy Director of Digital Health at NHSX presented a session focusing on the use of digital tools helping to support people feel more cared for […]
Video: Microsoft Research and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT
On day two of HTN Now November, we welcomed the Microsoft Research InnerEye team to share how their AI for medical image analysis programme is benefiting clinicians at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT. Javier Alvarez-Valle, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research and Dr Raj Jena, Group Leader in Machine Learning & Radiomics in Radiation therapy, University of […]
Researchers use machine learning to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have used machine learning techniques to analyse the text of hundreds of thousands of Reddit posts. The researchers have revealed several key impacts on mental health, including an overall increase in anxiety and in thoughts about suicide. Analysing the language that people have used […]
