In December we released a feature looking into tech trends and predictions for 2019 and we continued our HTN 100 series: HTN 100: Shaping Cloud, Egton Online Triage and Care to Translate HTN 100: NICE, NELFT, Imprivata and Olympus HTN 100: Insource, digital dictation, Dedalus and Servelec Highland Marketing looked ahead […]
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Tech trial hopes to detect multiple cancers
Cancer Research UK has funded a trial to test whether technology can identify cancers from a patients breath. Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, a Cancer Research UK-funded scientist from the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge, is leading the trial “The PAN trial is seeing if you can use a breath test […]
NHS Education for Scotland launches tech guideline learning resource
NHS Education for Scotland has launched the ‘Introduction to Technology Enabled Care’ (TEC) learning resource to address the recommendation for a national approach to learning and development from the research report – ‘Supporting Scotland’s Workforce’. The learning resource is available free of charge and is aimed at staff in the […]
Matt Hancock announces shake up to GP IT
Matt Hancock has announced through the GP IT Futures framework the need to create an open, competitive market to encourage the best technology used in primary care and to shake-up the sector. In the announcement it was stated that all systems will be required to meet minimum standards to ensure […]
Virtual reality gaming helps patients with visual vertigo
Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS FT has installed a state-of-the-art virtual reality computer gaming suite at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital to help patents with visual vertigo. The use of the technology has already led to a dramatic improvement in recovery times for patients suffering with the condition, with those using the […]
SW England deploys System C CarePlus
A single child health information system spanning the whole of South West England from South Gloucester to the Isles of Scilly, has successfully gone live based on System C’s CarePlus child health software. The system manages the records of 710,000 children, logging the health status of individual children and the […]
Health Innovation Exchange supports Oh My Mood to develop their mental health programmes
Mental health company Oh My Mood are developing their blended care pathways programme for the UK market, now with support from the Health Innovation Exchange project. Oh My Mood work with clinicians, universities to make evidence-based blended care pathways available to mental health therapists and service users in order to […]
Imaging innovation and AI raising the spirits of UK radiology
A new survey from Canon Medical Systems UK has highlighted innovation and AI as what enthuses radiographers and radiologists the most, followed by imaging improving patient outcomes (27%) and the use of diagnostic imaging replacing invasive clinical procedures (21%). The greatest challenges currently facing radiologists and radiographers were cited as staffing […]
MJOG partners with eConsult across Sunderland
MJOG has partnered with eConsult and Sunderland’s health funding authority as part of its new Smart Partners programme, which helps encourage the widespread take up of innovative digital healthcare services. MJOG and eConsult will support more than 280,000 patients covered by Sunderland’s Clinical Commissioning Group enabling them to be informed […]
New contract for Welsh national clinical benchmarking and analytics systems awarded to CHKS
CHKS has been awarded a new contract for the provision of an all Wales national and Health Board clinical benchmarking and analytics system. The system called iCompare will help the NHS organisations in Wales identify areas of good, and poor performance and encourage the sharing of best practice. CHKS will […]
