We began day two of the HTN Now 2021 series with a Tuesday morning talk from Paul Charnley, Digital Lead for Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership. Paul shared his team’s learnings and processes openly, highlighting for context how Cheshire & Merseyside is a “large and complex system…second or […]
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NEWS2 evaluated for prediction of severe COVID-19 study
Researchers at King’s College London have conducted a large scale study into the accuracy of National Early Warning Risk Score (NEWS) 2 as a scoring system for predicting severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients. The researchers found poor-to-moderate accuracy for identifying patients at risk of being transferred to intensive care units, […]
Patients Know Best and Somerset Cancer Register integration to go live in March
Patients Know Best has partnered with the Somerset Cancer Register to support remote monitoring and access to data for cancer patients. NHS teams and their cancer patients will, from March, be able to use the patient portal to access to their digital health record through PKB and the NHS App. […]
Video: The Royal Marsden’s response to COVID-19
If you missed any of last week’s HTN Now 2021 events as they aired live, you can now find a video recording of every session online. Here we recap the session with David Newey, Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and his talk on […]
600 free health information videos added to NHS website
A library of over 600 free health information videos, produced by HCI, have been made available on the NHS website’s homepage. The videos have been developed by the company in partnership with Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, and cover a range of subject areas such as asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, […]
Peppy Health launches campaign to address maternal mortality rates in Black mothers
Peppy Health has launched a new campaign seeking to address the disparity in maternal mortality rates amongst Black mothers. The campaign, Black Mums Matter Too, is hoping to take action against the higher numbers of deaths amongst Black women throughout various stages of their pregnancy in comparison to their White […]
Welsh NHS announces £25 million funding for digital
In a move to support health and care organisations’ move to more digital services, NHS Wales has committed a further £25 million in funding, Health and Social Services Minister Vaughan Gething has announced. The new funding aims to support the Welsh Government’s Plan for Health and Social Care – A […]
New 24/7 blood pressure monitoring system launched
A new 24/7 Optical Blood Pressure Monitoring System (OBPM), worn as a wrist band to collect data to better inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension, has been launched. The medical innovation estimates blood pressure automatically and painlessly by analysing signals from a wearer’s wrist throughout the day. These are […]
Moorfields awards £1.1m triage tool contract
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS FT has awarded £1.1 million to Dem Dx for its triaging tool. The triage platform is to be used by healthcare teams as a clinical reasoning tool, to support the triage process in the specialist eye hospital. The programme aims to reduce patient referrals to unnecessary tertiary […]
HTN Video Interview: Max Landry, Peppy Health
Over the past few weeks, HTN has had the pleasure of interviewing the 20 SMEs selected as part of Digital Health London’s Accelerator programme, which provides advice and support for high-potential businesses over a 12-month period. In this interview, we had the chance to speak to Max Landry, Chief Commercial […]
