Staff at University of Southampton NHS Foundation Trust are using an innovative app to experience a day in the life of their patients. The inflammatory bowel disease team in Southampton have become the first clinical team in the UK to use the In My Shoes app to understand how Crohn’s disease […]
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Amazon Alexa can now send medication reminders
Amazon is moving into the medicine adherence space by adding new functionality to Amazon Alexa. Non-adherence is well documented, with greater than 30% of patients with long term conditions failing to take their medicines correctly. This can result in possible hospital admission or deterioration. Amazon said they have introduced the […]
East Kent Hospitals embraces AI for eye health
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is embracing artificial intelligence so patients can now have their eye health monitored by a computer. Doctors at the Trust worked with the University of Kent to develop the AI software that can detect signs of eye disease. The machine-based method compares new […]
Moorfields to develop prediction model from large-scale glaucoma biobank
Moorfields Eye Hospital is developing a tool to help personalise glaucoma treatment and identity patients most at risk of sight loss at the point of glaucoma diagnosis. A team at Moorfields, led by Dr Anthony Khawaja, will establish a data resource, known as the Moorfields Glaucoma BioResource, that will be […]
RNOH becomes first to deliver robotic assisted spinal surgery
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first in the NHS to deliver Robotic Assisted Spinal Surgery (RASS) utilising technology that is transforming the operating theatre. Last week, following a complex spinal procedure to correct scoliosis in a teenage girl, the hospital utilised technology from Medtronic Ltd, the […]
Barts Health plans £7.6m IT infrastructure developments
Barts Health NHS Trust is to invest £7.6 million to move its IT networks onto the cloud and develop its IT infrastructure, following a series of approved loans announced in October. In October the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock announced £184 million in funding to modernise hospitals, of which Barts Health […]
New research to study if phone usage can detect mental health relapse
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new research programme to understand if there are links with phone usage to detect and predict relapse in people suffering from a serious mental illness (SMI). The new study is to take place at the Trust as part of the REST […]
Interview Series: Lisa Emery, Chief Information Officer, The Royal Marsden NHS FT
In our latest interview we met with Lisa Emery, CIO at The Royal Marsden NHS FT and asked Lisa few questions. Could you tell me about yourself and your organisation? I’m CIO at The Royal Marsden and I’ve worked there just over a year. This CIO post is the first […]
Cancer web tool receives NICE endorsement
A tool to help doctors and patients make informed choices about prostate cancer treatment has been approved by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The Predict Prostate model and web tool was created by Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s (CUH) Academic Urology Group and the University […]
Apple launches three health studies in the new Research app
Apple has announced that its customers in the US can enroll in three health studies — the Apple Women’s Health Study, the Apple Heart and Movement Study, and the Apple Hearing Study. The studies will be conducted in partnership with leading academic and research institutions, and will be available in Apple’s […]
