The NHS ORB app is ready for user testing, with a launch to take place across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The user feedback stage forms part of a pilot for a national primary care interface for citizens and individuals to access digital services, and for people and patients to access health […]
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Royal Cornwall tops leaderboard for website accessibility
In March 2021, HTN reported on a comparison of NHS trust and CCG websites for usability, including content, accessibility, marketing, mobile, social, speed, and legal compliance. Since our news story, six NHS trust websites have moved into the top 10 in ‘the index’, from Silktide, a company that compares millions of websites. […]
News in Brief: leadership programme for digital nurses, NHS apprenticeships, innovation ‘surgery’
Amid all of last week’s sporting action, HTN hit its own hat-tick of features with a focus on technologies supporting ICSs, including an article on the role of data and analytics, a how-to guide for choosing health tech partners, and a piece on the importance of change management. As for […]
AI tech introduced across Mid and South Essex GP practices
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership has launched a new campaign and technology solution to raise awareness of skin cancer across the region. Utilising a new service from Skin Analytics, GP practices across mid and south Essex are using artificial intelligence technology via a Dermascope to support decision making […]
Feature: How data and analytics can help ICSs forge better journeys of care
As HTN’s focus on technologies and strategies to support ICSs continues, Graphnet – a supplier of shared care record software and population health solutions – shares a recent, high-profile case study to illustrate the important role that high-quality data and analytics can play going forward… The title of the latest […]
UCL develops speech therapy smart app and AI that helps detect oesophageal cancer
University College London (UCL) has published updates on its research and development in two interesting areas of health technology – using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect a type of cancer, and a smart app that provides speech therapy for stroke sufferers. The iReadMore app from the Neurotherapeutics Group at […]
CQC outlines registration requirements for online orthodontic providers
The Care Quality Commission (the CQC) has released details of its registration requirements for providers of ‘direct-to-consumer’ orthodontic treatment, also referred to as online or remote orthodontics. Concentrating on these virtual dental services, the CQC said it wanted to “clarify the registration requirements for this type of care”. The reason […]
A closer look at the new NHSX mental health digital playbook
NHSX launched its new ‘mental health digital playbook’ earlier this week, to provide the NHS with real-world examples of how to “use digital ways of working” to “improve outcomes for patients”. Earlier this year, NHSX also released an eye care digital playbook, a resource for eye care specialists seeking to […]
Feature: A how-to guide for choosing a health tech partner for your ICS
In this ICS-focused feature Jamie Innes, Inhealthcare’s Product Director, shares his how-to guide for choosing technology partners with the HTN audience… Collaboration, not competition, is the new direction of travel for the NHS and health technology will help break down barriers between organisations to turn the ambitious vision of joined-up […]
Digital Health and Care Wales awards contract for clinical data repository
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), the organisation tasked with driving digital health advancement and innovation in the nation, has awarded a two-year contract to Better for a clinical data repository that will “help to transform care and treatment for patients”. Through its “open-platform approach”, patient records are shared between […]
