HTN is pleased to announce HTN NOW, a new brand and focus for the online sessions, webcasts, storytelling and content we deliver and share. HTN NOW is a new focus to online storytelling ‘for the moment’ or ‘for the now’, where we curate a series of sessions to support our […]
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Bupa launches at home skin cancer assessment service
Bupa has launched a new at home service to support remote skin cancer assessment, working with health tech company Skin Analytics. As part of the service, Bupa customers are sent an imaging kit, which includes a smartphone and a magnifying scope to take pictures of suspicious moles or marks. The images […]
Video: Leicester’s Hospitals digital strategy and EPR programme
HTN Summit 2020 Day Two, we were joined by Paul Volkaerts, CEO at Nervecentre, Andy Carruthers, Chief Information Officer at Leicester’s Hospitals and Graeme Hall, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer at Leicester’s Hospitals, for a session focusing on the EPR programme at the trust. The session explored Leicester’s Hospitals digital strategy, including their EPR Programme, electronic prescribing and medicines administration system and […]
Black Country Pathology Services progresses with laboratory network
Black Country Pathology Services is progressing with an initiative to digitally connect its laboratory network including four NHS trusts. The Dudley Group, Sandwell and Birmingham, Walsall Healthcare, and The Royal Wolverhampton will be using the CliniSys laboratory information system to support a regional ‘hub and spoke’ model. Once the system is rolled-out, […]
Video: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Health Education England discusses digital capabilities
For Day Two of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy Workstream Lead at Health Education England. Henrietta presented a session on ‘digital literacy’ and the importance of digital capabilities in the delivery of health and social care. Henrietta said: “Health Education England is embarking on a massive piece of work […]
Microsoft Research Project InnerEye releases its AI software as open-source
The Project InnerEye team at Microsoft Research Cambridge has released its InnerEye Deep Learning Toolkit as open-source software on GitHub. Following years of development on a machine learning toolkit, the goal of the project has been to democratise AI for medical image analysis and empower developers at research institutes, hospitals, life science organisations, and healthcare providers […]
COVID cases data overlay on Google Maps
Google is to release new functionality this week to overlay COVID cases data on Google Maps. Data from 220 countries will be used to overlay Google Maps, enabling a user to drill down to a location to understand key metrics, such as the seven-day average of new COVID cases per […]
HTN Summit 2020: Day Two
HTN Summit 2020 Day Two included 6 sessions from a range of speakers from across health and care. In this article we round-up all the action from the webinars that took place. Starting us off we welcomed Helen McGuire and Ainhoa Arjona from Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, on a session taking us through their journey […]
Video: Hugo Mathias, CIO, presents the use of robotic process automation at Northampton General
The first session of HTN Summit 2020 we were joined by Hugo Mathias, CIO at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust for a session focusing on the use of robotic process automation. Hugo said: “Across the board, there are lots of opportunities to provide automation, and we’ve recognised trying to implement our […]
Coventry and Warwickshire set to introduce Integrated Care Records
The Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Record programme has announced plans to roll-out its shared care record this Autumn. The platform will ensure health and care records for patients across the region will be available to authorised health and social care practitioners. The programme includes GP practices within Coventry and […]
