A new study published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV) has determined SkinVision, a skin cancer application has a sensitivity of 95.1% in detecting the most common forms of skin cancer. SkinVision’s awareness and tracking solution supports individuals with the early recognition of skin cancer. […]
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Industry View: Health and Care Innovation Expo
Health and Care Innovation Expo 2019 was the biggest NHS-led event of the year. Held on 4-5 September at Manchester Central, it attracted people from the NHS, social care, local government, the third sector and the commercial sector. It focused on bringing the NHS Long Term Plan to life, and this […]
HTN Digital Week 2020 registration now open
HTN has today launch HTN Digital Week, a series of online events to share and collaborate on healthcare technology, taking place 20th – 26th January 2020. Supported by Dedalus UK, CCube Solutions and Rhapsody the week provides a range of webinars, features, interviews, special reports, live videos and social media […]
Worcestershire Health and Care partners with Clinithink
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, a Global Digital Exemplar Trust is now using Clinithink’s CLiX ENRICH solution, recognised for delivering quality improvements. The solutions provides clinical natural language processing using AI technology to accurately ‘read’ and interpret up to two million clinical documents an hour, automating the review of clinical […]
Liva Healthcare wins funding to help treat pregnant women at risk of Type 2 diabetes
Liva Healthcare, the digital health coaching company, has this month secured funding from the EU Horizon 2020 fund to develop the: ‘Impact Diabetes Baby 2 Bump’ research project. The company will work with researchers from seven universities including the University College Dublin, the University of Bristol and the University of Granada, […]
St Thomas’ pharmacist develops medications app
Gayle Campbell a pharmacist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has developed a new medications app to support patients take their medications correctly. The app called MedTap, features videos with NHS clinicians to provide answers to common medication questions such as when and how to take pills, what to do about […]
Health Foundation award £67K to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to build digital road map
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £67,000 from the Health Foundation’s Advancing Applied Analytics programme to develop new software aimed to transform NHS outpatient care. The project will use machine learning to track 32 million datasets containing patient arrival times, length of consultations, duration of appointments and […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: What is holding your organisation back from becoming digital?
In the second of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked NHS professionals what is holding your organisation back from becoming digital? In this article we have selected some of the key themes, comments and challenges highlighted in the survey. Of the respondents 22% were positive […]
20 innovators join DigitalHealth.London Accelerator
DigitalHealth.London has today announced the 20 new digital health care innovators to be supported by the 2019-20 programme. Now in its fourth year, it supports small and medium organisations accelerate the adoption of innovations into the NHS. The Accelerator is receiving approximately £1.7 million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund as […]
£130m investment for gene-based therapies and artificial intelligence
The Government has today announced it will invest over £130 million in life-changing treatments for arthritis and cancer and for pioneering gene-based therapies for diseases including dementia and Parkinson’s. An investment of £50 million with support NHS diagnostic services and support the work of existing Centres of Excellence in digital pathology […]
