NHS Digital has announced 16 projects will be awarded a share of £4.5 million to support health tech and digitisation projects. The awards have been made to organisations that provide and commission adult social care services and include projects such as digital workflows, care planning, AI, interoperability and analytics. The […]
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London North West to introduce digital task management
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has agreed a deal with Infinity Health to introduce a care coordination platform to manage clinical tasks. The care coordination and task management platform will be the second project between the two organisations, following the transformation in the way porter requests and patient transfers […]
iPLATO secures funding up to £5 million
IPLATO the company behind the myGP app has secured access to lending of up to £5m from SME credit specialist Caple. Caple has helped iPLATO to access a multimillion pound eight-year unsecured loan to further develop its technology and drive forward its marketing in the UK and to launch internationally. […]
SBRI Healthcare awards £1 million to innovations
SBRI Healthcare has announced 10 innovations to be awarded a share of £1 million to fund their development in the fields of cardiovascular disease and the integration of health & social care. After over 150 applications, 10 innovations have been selected. The projects will run for up to six months, with […]
Doctorlink signs agreement with North West Kent and Medway CCGs
Doctorlink a solution to support digital access to primary healthcare providers has signed an agreement with North West Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Groups. It provides symptom assessment support to deliver immediate medical advice to patients, with an aim to reduce clinical hours for doctors and divert up to 22% to […]
James Paget to roll-out erostering solution
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced plans to rollout Allocate’s erostering technology. The trust went live with the e-rostering software for its nursing workforce in 2010, and is now to be rolled out to its 320 doctors and medical staff to cover 12 departments. The first staff […]
Kent and Medway picks Civica Prescribing
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has selected Civica’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) solution. The trust has agreed a five year deal with Civica to provide its EPMA software following the government’s pledge early last year to provide £75 million extra to trusts to save time and reduce errors through electronic medicines management. Karen […]
NHS Digital appoints new Chief Information Security Officer
NHS Digital has appointed Pete Rose as new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Deputy CEO. Pete Rose, currently at the Home Office as director of enterprise services and deputy chief digital, data and technology officer will join NHS Digital on 4th May 2020. He will be responsible for running all […]
HTN Voice: Healthcare’s AI toxicity problem
By Dr Pritesh Mistry. Pritesh draws upon his experience leading innovation initiatives in primary and secondary care co-developing solutions with clinicians, researchers, industry and patients at St Thomas’ Hospital and Royal College of GPs to provide insights on innovation in healthcare. Read weekly articles on his blog here. The narrative […]
Coventry and Warwickshire secures GDE Fast Follower status
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has successfully secured £3million funding from NHS England and has been confirmed as the latest trust joining the Global Digital Exemplar Fast Follower programme. Simon Gilby, Chief Executive at CWPT said “This is a significant step towards our ambition of harnessing more technology to […]
