Earlier in January Boots UK announced the acquisition of Wiggly-Amps Limited, a health technology company providing solutions that enable patients and their GPs to better manage their prescription needs. Since the acquisition the company has had a name change to Engage Health Systems and we spoke with the MD Witte to […]
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HTN 100: South West Yorkshire, Gogodoc, Sectra and Populo Consulting
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. South West Yorkshire NHS Partnership NHS FT goes live with Restart South West Yorkshire has gone live with Restart Consulting to provide 3,500 health and care professionals with […]
Blackpool Teaching Hospital benefits from in-house system
Blackpool Teaching Hospital has developed an in-house digital system replacing traditional ‘white-boards’ on 38 adult wards. The system digitally captures the patient journey from the point of referral to discharge, providing real time information to standardise clinical practice and improve efficiency within the organisation. Dr Gurkaran Samra said “The user-led need […]
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust goes live with eObservations
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with eObservations using Tap & Go technology from Imprivata. The company said the project was turned around in just 8 weeks and the Trust went live. The solution gives clinicians fast, secure, and auditable access to eObservations, a system that records patient vital […]
Kent and Medway STP benefits from Population Health Management
Kent and Medway STP has used population health management technology from Carnall Farrar to drive savings across the region. Carnall Farrar have utilised advanced analytics and patient-level datasets to segment the population, focus on specific population cohorts of need and create a new integrated and holistic care offer to those […]
Research suggests automated phone calls may help patients to take medicines correctly
Research funded by the NIHR has suggested that automated phone calls could be effective at helping patients to take their medicines as prescribed. The pilot study, funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme and the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, looked at 17 patients with high blood pressure […]
New AI ‘shapeshift’ test identifies women with ‘very high risk’ ovarian cancer
Scientists have developed a new test that scans the shapes of tumour cells to pick out women with especially aggressive ovarian cancer, so treatment can be tailored to their needs. A team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that looks for clusters of […]
Highland Marketing advisory board expands
Highland Marketing has today announced it has welcomed a chair and two new members to its advisory board. The company has added experienced industry advisor Jeremy Nettle, popular digital advocate Andy Kinnear, and leading CIO Cindy Fedell to advise agency and its clients on the effective promotion of health tech. Jeremy […]
UHB signs up 20,000 patients to myhealth@QEHB
Following the launch of myhealth@QEHB in 2012 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has now seen 20,000 patients register for the platform. Developed by UHB’s in-house Technical Development and Informatics Team, the portal allows Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham patients to remotely access some of the their clinical information held by the Trust, […]
Draper & Dash, AI Healthcare Data and Analytics firm, secures venture funding to support rapid expansion and rollout of its predictive patient flow platform
Draper & Dash, the healthcare focused data analytics platform that has changed how hospitals and care providers access, understand and work with patient data, has raised £3m in venture funding from Guinness’ EIS Funds. The company’s SaaS-based analytics platform uses advanced data science and machine learning techniques to predict patient […]
