HTN is delighted to launch the Health Tech Awards 2021 to share and celebrate digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers that have made a difference through the year. The innovative awards, now in their fifth year, provide a great platform to showcase and share your work. There are a […]
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Mapping tool introduced by NHS South, Central and West CSU for home visits
NHS South, Central and West CSU (SCW) has introduced new mapping and modelling techniques to support housebound patient visits for GPs and nurses in Somerset. The tool went live on 4 February 2021 to help reach as many patients in a day, in the least number of journeys. The CSU […]
Vine Health awarded £1million funding
Vine Health, the company behind a mobile app to support cancer patients, has been awarded a million-pound grant from Innovate UK to help deliver their cancer treatment companion app to four NHS Trusts. The NHS Trusts will take part in four randomised controlled trials with the hope to generate robust evidence that the app will support cancer […]
Health Tech Awards 2021: First group of judges revealed
HTN is delighted to announce the first group of judges confirmed to support the Health Tech Awards 2021. Following an open invitation 48 hours ago, we were overwhelmed with the response to support the awards judging process this year. We wanted to bring together a wide group of people from […]
University of Edinburgh selects six health tech startups for new AI Accelerator Programme
The University of Edinburgh has announced the 15 startups that have been selected for its new AI Accelerator programme – with six of those innovative companies from the health tech sector. The programme, designed in partnership with Scale Space – a scaling up community and network for innovative businesses – […]
NHS Digital announces improvements to e-Referral Service
NHS Digital has made improvements to the advice function on its NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS), following feedback from clinicians. These changes focus on providing primary care clinicians with ‘an effective tool’ to talk to staff in secondary care settings before making a referral, thereby improving the referral system for patients […]
From disease detection to drug creation: the diverse applications of AI in healthcare
In December 2020, HTN featured artificial intelligence tools supporting everything from colonoscopies to strokes, and the diverse applications of AI in healthcare. Part two of our ‘applications of AI in healthcare’ series looks specifically at AI in radiology; AI in psychiatry; and in the creation of new drugs and the […]
Sussex Community FT implements new automated scheduling system
A new automated scheduling system has been implemented at Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT) following successful pilots in Leicestershire and Hertfordshire. The Trust has gone live with TPP’s AutoPlanner, to provide staff scheduling functionality, and automatically book visits in the community on a daily basis. The Trust is also progressing the […]
Induction app supports clinician onboarding at Nightingale London
NHS Nightingale London has used an app from Induction Healthcare to support the onboarding process of 418 clinicians. Using the Induction Switch app, a popular communication platform used by 185,000 healthcare professionals, the temporary hospital has adopted the tool to support communication, secure messaging, directory services and document sharing. London’s Nightingale hospital was reopened last month […]
Plans proposed to bring together NHSX and NHSE outpatient transformation programmes
In a move to drive outpatient transformation, a proposal is in process for the digital teams from NHSX and clinical transformation teams at NHS England to work closer together. The new proposal aims to bring the Improvement directorate within NHSE leading on outpatient transformation programmes, together with digital teams from […]
