A study by David Luxton titled ‘Artificial Intelligence in Behavioural and Mental Healthcare’ published in ScienceDirect has explored the ability to predict depression in Facebook users. The study used an artificial intelligence algorithm to detect vocabulary usage with negative connotations and said depression can be detected up to 3 months before a social […]
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HTN Voice: Highland Marketing Budget analysis: “whatever it costs” for COVID-19
The first Budget to be delivered by new chancellor Rishi Sunak was dominated by measures to address the health and financial threat posed by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Action on the underlying problems facing the NHS were, once again, put off. While two big health tech announcements were made outside […]
Mental health trust joins Health Call digital partnership
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT has become the first mental health trust to join the digital healthcare partnership known as Health Call. The mental health trust, who is a Global Digital Exemplar, has joined the NHS collaboration as a shareholder. Health Call is a key partner of the North East […]
EMIS makes pharmacy services acquisition
EMIS Group has today announced the acquisition of the company behind the PharmOutcomes platform, Pinnacle Health Partnership LLP. The company said the acquisition is part of the group’s strategy to drive widespread improvements in medicines management and to support pharmacy in providing more clinical services. Over 11,000 pharmacies use the […]
PRSB launches programme to develop national standards for social care
The Professional Record Standards Body has been asked by NH Digital to develop national standards for social care. The aim is to create national standards that support the roll-out and adoption of successful tech projects. Last month NHS Digital announced funding of £4.5 million to support 16 health tech and […]
Data visualisation tools to support large cardiovascular clinical trials
Data visualisation tools developed by Zegami will be used by Oxford University for large cardiovascular clinical trials. Oxford University researchers at the Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility will apply data visualisation techniques to hundreds of thousands of images of the heart, making it easier to categorise them and identify new […]
Call for teenagers with asthma to co-design NHS app
The Digital Health Passport app, used to support young people take control of their asthma is calling on 12-25 year olds to support the development of the app. Due to be rolled out across London to support over 240,000 people, the app is used to create asthma action plans, track symptoms […]
23 digital aspirants announced to receive share of £28m
23 digital aspirants have been revealed, part of a multi year programme to drive digital transformation. The organisations will share a £28 million technology fund, as part of the first group of digital aspirants announced. In December Matt Hancock announced the programme, commenting “I want the whole of the NHS to […]
Wales shares millionth digital result and adds dentistry data
All Health Boards across Wales now have access to digital patient information and have recently made dentistry information available. NHS Wales Informatics Services (NWIS) announced that in January, the millionth digital test result was viewed between health boards via Wales’ digital patient record service, the Welsh Clinical Portal. It said […]
Industry View: Digital Health Technology Standard published by NHSX
NHSX last month published a draft Digital Health Technology Standard and called for feedback from the industry before 22nd April. The draft standard outlines 10 components on what the NHS expects. It’s based on existing standards and will support a process for reviewing, assessing and evaluating digital health technologies that meet […]
