A new programme has been launched across the Yorkshire and Humber, the region’s first digital health accelerator programme. Propel@YH has been set up by Yorkshire & Humber AHSN (Academic Health Science Network) to provide innovative organisations developing digital health solutions with access to a structured course of support and advice aimed at […]
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NHS Long Term Plan: Industry Reaction Part Two
HTN asked the Health Tech Industry for their opinion and reaction to the recently published NHS Long Term Plan. Here you can find the reaction below from the second part of our series and you can read Part One by clicking here. Our contributors include: X-on, Orion Health, ReStrart Consulting, RIVIAM, Transforming […]
Neonatal major redesign planned
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced the national roll-out of eRedbook to digitise paper child health records. The measures aim to improve safety, quality and continuity of care to halve stillbirths, maternal and infant deaths and serious brain injuries in new-born babies by 2025. Among other measures […]
NW London CCGs signs Inhealthcare
The North West London Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups has signed an agreement with Inhealthcare, a UK leader in digital health and remote patient monitoring. The agreement will allow professionals in the CCGs to choose from a number of digital health and care apps and also invent their own. Inhealthcare […]
NHS Long Term Plan: Industry Reaction Part One
The NHS in England has published its much anticipated Long Term Plan with a significant focus on technology. We asked industry leaders for their comment and reaction. Our contributors include: CCube Solutions, InterSystems, Allscripts, Ingenica Solutions, Draper & Dash, Isosec, DrDoctor, System C & Graphnet Care Alliance, Channel 3, FDB, Inhealthcare, […]
NHS Long Term Plan sets tech milestones
Health and care leaders have come together to develop a Long Term Plan to make the NHS fit for the future, and to get the most value for patients out of every pound of taxpayers’ investment. The plan highlights technology as being instrumental in delivering on its ambitions and aims for the […]
University Hospitals Birmingham selects Carestream
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Carestream’s medical imaging solutions to support co-ordinated, collaborative care across the Trust’s hospital site. The solutions will provide workflow management, clinical repository, diagnostic and image distribution functions as well as analytics applications to simplify medical image management and empower effective integration of services across sites for enhanced […]
First robotic heart surgery a success from 20 miles away
Dr. Tejas Patel, Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist of the Apex Heart Institute at Ahmedabad has performed heart surgery from a distance of 20 miles away. The procedure, which lasted just 15 minutes was to place a stent in the second artery that was clogged, using an internet-enabled robotic arm […]
Highland Marketing tech and security predictions, 2019
What will be the key health tech and security trends affecting the NHS in the coming year and beyond? Highland Marketing asked members of its advisory group for their predictions. James Norman, healthcare CIO – EMEA at DellEMC I think there are going to be a few key initiatives that […]
Boots UK acquires Wiggly-Amps
Boots UK has 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. Boots UK the largest pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer with over 20,000 healthcare providers and over 6,500 pharmacists has acquired the company to […]
