Royal Derby Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has started its e-prescribing and medicines administration journey with DXC Technology’s Lorenzo. The initiative is part of the Trust wider digital programme that will better alert doctors to genuine prescribing dangers, electronically link patient information and […]
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Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care pilot extended for a year
The Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project has been extended for another year with a extra 1.48 million to be invested. The additional funding takes the total funding to £4.9m for 11 organisations from Liverpool’s hospitals, council, universities and technology SMEs creating new 5G supported health technologies. Rosemary Kay, Liverpool 5G […]
Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea award OLM three year contract
Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster City Council have awarded OLM a three-year contract to replace existing systems with the implementation of case management system, ECLIPSE, to support the SEN (special education needs) service and integrated case recording. The SEN service co-ordinates statutory assessment processes for more than 2,000 children and […]
14 start-ups shortlisted to accelerator programme
14 start-ups have made the shortlist to participate in Propel@YH first digital health accelerator programme. The Leeds-based programme was commissioned by the Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network in partnership with mHabitat, an NHS-owned specialist and expert in the application of digital to health and care. The shortlisted organisations and […]
Hull shares records with social care workers
A new project in Hull has allowed audit social care workers access to view resident care records through the integrated health record in the area. Members of staff from the Hull City Council’s adult social care team now have access to the system, allowing them to view information generated from […]
£9m awarded to breakthrough digital health technologies
Innovative digital technology projects have received a £9m funding boost through the government’s Digital Health Technology Catalyst. The catalyst, delivered by UK Research and Innovation, aims to accelerate the development of digital health innovation, under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, to ensure the UK remains at the leading-edge of innovative […]
New AI able to identify and predict the development of cancer symptom clusters
In the first study of its kind, published by Nature Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of Surrey and the University of California detail how they used Network Analysis (NA) to examine the structure and relationships between 38 common symptoms reported by over 1300 cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The new […]
HTN 100: Servelec, Wiltshire CCG, Fika app and Moore Blatch Silicon Cup
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. Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership and Black Country Partnership pick Servelec Servelec has signed a contract to provide Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and […]
Insource releases new patient pathway application
Insource has announced enhancements to its Patient Pathway Plus solution utilised by NHS trusts for integrated management of elective care pathways. The company has worked with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to make improvements including user experience improvements and improved filtering of huge […]
Siilo Messenger reaches 140k users
The start up Siilo Messenger has reached a milestone of 140,000 unique users, doubling its user base in less than 12 months. The GDPR compliant messaging and collaboration platform for health and care was founded in 2016 by a former doctor and surgeon and reached 70,000 users in June last year. Since […]
