Professor Simon Walsh at King’s College Hospital has developed an algorithm which can accurately diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that could dramatically improve the diagnosis rate of a lung condition which kills up to 6,000 people in the UK each year. Fibrotic lung disease causes scarring and stiffness in the lungs, […]
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Highland Marketing: Budget analysis – trick or treat?
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his Budget on Monday so he didn’t have to deliver it on Halloween. The event was still haunted by the ghost of the NHS birthday present and the spectre of the long-term plan. Lyn Whitfield, director of content strategy for Highland Marketing, reports. The timing of this […]
North of England receives £10m government investment for AI and digital pathology
Leeds researchers have been awarded a £10.1m investment from UK Research and Innovation to expand a digital pathology and artificial intelligence programme across the North of England. The successful partnership bid led by the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals embraces a network of nine NHS hospitals, seven universities, […]
PRSB published first standards for information sharing between pharmacies and GP
The PRSB has published the first part of a new standard outlining the information that needs to be shared between community pharmacies and GP practices. The number of people living with long-term conditions is increasing, and community pharmacies play an essential role in providing services to patients to keep them […]
Vapour Cloud launches video call tool
Vapour Cloud has launched TeleDOC to enable GPs and other medical professionals to hold secure, encrypted, recordable, geo-tagged video calls with their patients, wherever they are located, on any device. With WebRTC* technology at the heart of the product, the result is the ability to efficiently discuss and diagnose health […]
Opinion: Mayank Patel, Director and Superintendent Pharmacist, Pearl Chemist Group
Mayank Patel, Director and Superintendent Pharmacist, Pearl Chemist Group covers how new technology has helped to automate the dispensing process. “Community pharmacy is under tremendous pressure to deliver a safe and effective service to patients in the face of funding cuts. Last year, it was estimated that more than 7,218 prescriptions were […]
Join us LIVE on 7th November
The HTN Awards 2018 will be announced on 7th November from 7pm live on www.thehtn.co.uk and on Twitter using #HTNAwards. We encourage the HTN network to join us on the evening and to get involved! The Awards celebrate health tech and share many projects that are making a real impact to […]
HTN Newsletter: October
We hope you all can join us on 7th November at 7pm live for the HTN Awards 2018. In our latest Newsletter here we cover the news we brought you in October: We released a feature sponsored by Graphnet on sharing records. In the feature we heard from industry experts […]
NICE to retire guidance app
The NICE guidance app will no longer be available for download with plans to phase it out by January 2019 and focus on its website. The NICE Guidance app was developed in 2012 to support the mobile working needs of healthcare professionals. In an effort to make guidance more accessible, […]
EMIS acquires Dovetail Digital Limited
EMIS Group has announced the acquisition of Dovetail Digital Limited for £2.5m, a early stage UK technology business specialising in blockchain software for the healthcare market. Founded in July 2017, Dovetail Lab creates software that gives patients full control of their healthcare records, delivering secure exchange of data between different […]
