Emis has announced the launch of the first application as part of its new EMIS-X cloud-based platform. The application, called Explorer, comes as part of a new EMIS-X Analytics suite to provide tools to support healthcare teams with data insights and analytics. Explorer is being used in a pilot to support researchers […]
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Royal Devon and Exeter’s Epic go-live week
By David Kwo, EPR consultant and researcher, who provides a first-hand account of the EPR implementation and go-live at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. David has supported the trust as an external EPR assurance agent and advisor. On Saturday 10 October, at 4:45am, the Royal Devon and […]
Kent Community goes live with Rio EPR
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has gone live this month with the core part of the electronic patient record from Servelec. The trust is also in the process of implementing Servelec’s cloud-based interoperability platform Conexes, to share data between systems and apps. The first phase of the EPR programme […]
New virtual reality software for scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
Virtual reality software created by scientists at the University of Cambridge and 3D image analysis software company Lume VR Ltd has been launched. The new software allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells in 3D, rather than data on a screen in 2D. Called vLUME, it allows super-resolution microscopy […]
HTN Feature: Digital Social Care
In a two part series we explore some of the programmes and technologies supporting social care digitisation. In this part one of the series we speak with interoperability specialists Healthcare Gateway to explore data sharing, to hear about their work with the Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) programme […]
eConsult Health raises £5million
eConsult Health, the online consultation provider supporting primary care, has raised £5 million in investment from Gresham House Ventures. The company said the investment is to support their expansion into the secondary care market, maintain its position in primary care for its digital triage services, and continue the rollout of its urgent and […]
Single Electronic Patient Record planned across Lancashire and South Cumbria
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) has announced plans to move to a single electronic patient record across the region. The procurement is being led by the Lancashire Procurement Cluster (hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust), with the programme to include Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East […]
Covid-19: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area?
On Monday 12th October the Government announced a new local approach to managing and containing the spread of coronavirus. It included the introduction of local COVID alert levels to ensure the right levels of intervention are targeted in the right places. To check the number of coronavirus cases in your area […]
HTN Voice: Mental health apps must win trust in how they use data if they are to achieve potential
By Evelina Georgieva, co-founder of Pryv As the long-feared second wave of Covid-19 begins to materialise across parts of Europe we are also seeing the continued growth of a second major concern; a global mental health crisis. Studies have found a huge rise in the number of people experiencing stress, […]
Digital health startup Numan completes £10M Series A
Numan, the online clinic built for men has closed a £10 million Series A funding round, led by Novator, along with Anthemis Exponential, Vostok New Ventures, and Colle Capital. The start-up launched in February 2019 to specifically support men take action when it comes to their health and wellbeing. The company […]
