The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust have signed with Babylon to use its COVID-19 app to support patients. The company is providing its AI digital care assistant to help support and monitor coronavirus patients 24/7 in the community. People can use the service to check their […]
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Biobank GP data to be made available to scientists to tackle COVID-19
Data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants is to be made available to support scientists tackle COVID-19. Primary care data containing COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases from a dataset of over 503,000 consented participants will be extracted on a monthly basis for COVID-19 research purposes. The programme is being provided through Public […]
Calderdale and Huddersfield innovate with tech
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT has embraced digital to transform ways of working and ensure safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Voice recognition is being used in high risk areas using Nuance Powermic to ensure staff can quickly enter and view notes in Cerner, without taking off their protective gear. The […]
From Academia to the NHS: Thoughts from a Data Scientist in this time of crisis
By Benjamin Taylor, Lead Data Scientist, Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS FT for HTN. Ben, the first ever data scientist at the trust started on 23rd March 2020. Here Ben covers some of his experiences so far, the predictive modelling he has done and his challenges and ambitions. Having spent all but one of the last 20 […]
Health Tech Heroes part three
Each week as part of our Health Tech Heroes series we recognise and say thank you to those in health tech making a real difference. Here in the third part in the series, we cover some of the amazing work this week where teams across the country have been working […]
UK space technologies to boost NHS Coronavirus response
A new £2.6 million fund is being made available to develop high tech projects to support the health service tackle the coronavirus. The UK Space Agency has opened a call for proposals process to fund successful projects that might use satellite data and drone technology to meet some of the […]
Hancock confirms contact tracing app
Matt Hancock has today confirmed a new app for contact tracing to support measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Should you get symptoms, then it could anonymously alert anyone you may have been in close contact with and then advise them to self-isolate. Hancock said “As we ramp up our […]
Video: David Kwo, lessons learned from implementing an electronic patient record
In January, as part of HTN Digital Week, we heard from David Kwo, former Director of EHRS and Informatics, UCLH. David presented lessons learned from the implementation of the Epic electronic patient record system. David was responsible for the Epic implementation at UCLH. The trust’s Epic journey started when the […]
Priority broadband for clinicians working from home and free data for NHS staff
The Government and leading telecoms companies have announced new initiatives to support healthcare professionals have priority broadband and free data. Frontline NHS workers dealing with COVID-19 will be able to access free data and calls for NHS staff using their own phone for work purposes. For clinicians working from home, […]
NHSX partners with Accenture and Facebook to trial video calling during Covid-19 crisis
NHSX has partnered with Facebook to provide 2,050 devices to help some of society’s most at-risk and isolated people access vital emotional support and companionship. These devices developed by Facebook will be provided free to trusts, care homes and other healthcare settings. Accenture is supporting the programme and deployment of the […]
