A £800m framework has opened for IT management services for NHS and social care, to be operated by NHS Digital. The framework is being run by the Crown Commercial Service, and aims to recruit approximately 12 suppliers of software development services. The framework titled ‘Digital Capability for Health’ is estimated to start in […]
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London AI Consortium receives funding boost
A consortium of academic, health and industry partners, led by Kings College London has been awarded a £16 million DHSC grant to support its programme of artificial intelligence research. The London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare network will now expand from 4 NHS Trusts to 11, […]
Superdrug launches medication pouching service
Superdrug has launched a medication pouching service using a dispensing robot to package a patient’s pills into dose specific pouches. The company said the new service indicates which pills should be taken when, for a month, and aims to support medication compliance. The service, called easymed, uses a robot to dispense […]
Northern Ireland StopCOVID app to cover young people
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has announced its StopCOVID NI app is to cover children and young people, starting from next month. The app was launched towards the end of July, and has to date been downloaded more than 300,000 times. Out of 281 ratings on the Apple App Store the app […]
Interview Series: Nick Hulme, CEO, East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
In the third edition of our CEO Series, we interviewed Nick Hulme to gain insight into how he has led the trust through Covid-19 and discussed what technologies he thought were crucial in working through the past few months. Nick also shared with us his advice for aspiring leaders and what learnings […]
Addenbrooke’s becomes UK first to offer new radiotherapy tech
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has installed a new technology to support precision radiosurgery and radiotherapy for patients with cancer and other conditions at its Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The technology uses an advanced form of Surface Guided RadioTherapy (SGRT) and x-ray monitoring, combining 4D thermal-surface camera technology with real-time x-ray tracking, resulting […]
Norfolk and Waveney CCG signs agreement for prescribing decision tech
A newly formed CCG, Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group, has procured prescribing decision technology from FDB for practices in the area. Combining five CCGs across Norwich, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, West Norfolk, and Great Yarmouth and Waveney, the procurement aims to support prescribers to improve the quality and safety of prescribing. […]
Video: Kelvyn Hipperson, CIO, Cornwall, 6 months in health tech
In June as part of HTN Digital Week we were joined by Kelvyn Hipperson, Chief Information Officer at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust. Kelvyn presented how the trust responded to Covid-19 and discussed what was next for the organisation over the coming months. He said: “A […]
Barts Health adopts AI for high risk colon cancer patients
Barts Health NHS Trust has implemented an artificial intelligence platform to help identify and prioritise patients at high risk of developing colon cancer. The tool from Medial EarlySign is being used to identify patients most likely to benefit from further evaluation and intervention. The company said the algorithms help to identify patients by […]
Elsevier acquires Cambridge based semantic AI company
Elsevier has acquired SciBite, a Cambridge based company specialising in extracting insight from structured and unstructured text. The solutions from the company help to extract scientific insights from content to identify key concepts such as drugs, proteins, companies, targets, and outcomes, to help understand better the complexities of life sciences data. Dr. Harland, the company […]
