Digital therapeutics company Big Health, has raised £31 million in Series B financing led by Gilde Healthcare and joined by co-lead Morningside Ventures. The company was founded by entrepreneur Peter Hames and Professor Colin Espie to help millions back to good mental health. Their digital therapeutics tools support people with […]
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Interview Series: Sam Shah, Digital Health Tech Advisor
In our latest interview series, Angela Sharda speaks to Sam Shah, NHS Clinician and former Director of Digital Development at NHSX, about the importance of improving diversity, inclusion and equality within the NHS. What are the biggest challenges that the BAME workforce in the NHS face? We need others to recognise that […]
Oxford University and NHS Digital collaborate on risk prediction tool
Oxford University and NHS Digital have developed a risk prediction tool to help identify patients who are at a higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19. The new model has been developed from data analysis and uses algorithms that could be applied to support GPs and healthcare teams in consultations to […]
HTN Voice: How do we secure a ‘second wave of innovation’ post-Covid-19?
Health tech marketing and communications agency, Highland Marketing, and its advisory board met in June to discuss some of the challenges that face oversees companies, start-ups and scale-ups in accessing the health tech market; and how they might be overcome so they can play their part in helping the NHS to […]
Livi announces merger of Swedish healthcare provider
KRY, known as Livi in English speaking markets, has merged with healthcare company Helsa one of the largest healthcare companies in Sweden. KRY provides a platform to enable patients to see a doctor or a psychologist by video, at a time and place that suits them. The merger will combine […]
Feature: Digital First Primary Care, X-on and TPP
In our Digital First Primary Care feature we speak with TPP and X-on to hear how the organisations are respectively driving digital primary care. We explore the past few months, some of the recent challenges, and what’s next for the providers. We speak with Paul Bensley, CEO of primary care […]
Health Tech Awards 2020 deadline extended
The deadline for the Health Tech Awards 2020 sponsored by CCube Solutions has been extended. You have until 23:59 24th July 2020 to enter our main awards, now in the fourth year. The Health Tech Awards 2020 celebrate and recognise great teams, projects, partnerships, collaborations, innovation, technology, programmes and initivives that have made […]
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day Five
Our final day of HTN Digital Week, and what a fantastic week we had, we kicked off with Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital. Paul took us through an update on the digital transformation programme in the Wirral region. Paul started the presentation […]
HTN Digital Week June 2020: Day Four
Our penultimate day of HTN Digital Week we welcomed and opened with Beth Lawton on Keeping Digital Human. Beth is Chief Digital and Information Officer for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. She begins by telling us how they have responded to Covid-19 through digitising, virtualising and mobilising. Beth explained how […]
Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020 Winners Revealed
Following a fantastic digital awards evening HTN is delighted to reveal the highly commended entries and winners in the Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions. Key to the awards, the HTN team will be writing about the entries to feature across our channels over the upcoming weeks, […]
