Health Education England has awarded 17 new digital fellowships to incorporate digital health expertise within their careers. The Topol Review published earlier this year made several recommendations including the creation of these digital fellowships. Led by cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher Dr Eric Topol, he explored how to prepare […]
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Moorfields Eye Hospital picks Civica for referrals
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five year contract with Civica. The specialist eye hospital will implement Civica’s cloud-based digital health platform Cito. The platform will be used to improve the patient referral workflow process to digitise and manage over 120,000 patient referrals each year. It means […]
Feature: 4 examples how AI, Data and Automation is transforming healthcare
Contributors include: InterSystems, Wellbeing Software, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust. AI, data and automation offers enormous potential for healthcare organisations, to save time, support decision making and remove manual process. In this feature we highlight four examples that are transforming health and […]
Interview Series: Helen Hughes, Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning
To celebrate the first-ever World Patient Safety Day (17th September 2019), HTN asked Helen Hughes, the chief executive of charity Patient Safety Learning, a few questions. WHO has today launched the first ever global campaign to create awareness of patient safety and urge people to show their commitment to making healthcare safer. […]
People and Partnership Awards by HTN launched
HTN has today launched the HTN People and Partnership Awards as part of HTN Digital Week 2020. The HTN People and Partnership Awards celebrate health tech that is making a difference to patients, professionals, organisations and the health system. Taking place on 22nd January as part of HTN Digital Week, the innovative […]
Boots pilots new instore video GP service
Boots UK is to pilot an innovative new video GP service provided by LIVI to help make access to healthcare even easier. The pilots will take place in North West Surry and a private service in the London Liverpool Street store. LIVI allows patients to see a GP by video consultation […]
Interview Series: Joachim Werr, CEO, Health Navigator
This week we interviewed Joachim Werr the CEO of Health Navigator, a company that helps predict and prevent avoidable urgent and emergency care by combining data and artificial intelligence with proactive health coaching. We asked Joachim how Health Navigator started: I was an emergency room physician, trained in Stockholm, and […]
NHS Digital partners with University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM for new hub for clinical trials
NHS Digital has partnered with the University of Oxford, Microsoft and IBM to develop a new hub that aims to revolutionise the way in which clinical trials are delivered. NHS DigiTrial, the NHS Health Data Research Hub for Clinical Trials, is one of seven hubs announced this week to enable cutting-edge […]
HTN 100: TomTom, new accelerator launches and health.io raises £50m
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every week email news@thehtn.co.uk. TomTom Telematics helps Kent Central Ambulance Service TomTom Telematics is helping Kent Central Ambulance Service to meet its NHS targets for patient delivery 97% of the […]
7 new health data hubs launched
Seven new data hubs are to be rolled out across the UK to speed up research for new medicines, treatments, and technologies that support quicker diagnoses and save lives. The hubs will use the latest advances in technology to connect and analyse health data from existing locations and in partnership […]
