SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network, has announced the programme’s latest round of funding is supporting companies to develop novel solutions to tackle the challenges of mental illness. Sharing in £700K investment, the seven successful companies have all demonstrated the potential of their innovations […]
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Interview: Interoperability, data, standards and innovation
In our latest interview we caught up with Vijay Magon, CEO, CCube Solutions. What is the most significant achievement for your organisation in the past 12 months? The word “interoperability” gets banded about a lot. Most modern IT systems sign upto interoperability but few actually deliver it. Over the last […]
New app could predict who will go in to labour early
Researchers from King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ have developed an app called QUiPP that could help predict if a woman is going to give birth prematurely. As well as providing support for those who will go in to labour early, for those at risk, the app can […]
Firefighters add heart checks to Safe and Well visits with expansion of innovative project
Firefighters in Eastern Cheshire will soon be adding potentially life-saving heart checks to their Safe and Well visits following the expansion of an innovative project. Health Innovation Manchester is working in partnership with Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) and NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG to improve the detection of atrial […]
New Patient Portal for Northern Ireland
Orion health will deliver a Patient Portal with an initial focus on people living with dementia across Northern Ireland. The project, due to go live in August 2018, with an initial pilot of up to 100 people living with dementia, will establish the “Proof of Concept” which once successfully […]
A University of Portsmouth researcher designs app to help postnatal depression
A University of Portsmouth researcher has designed an app to help women with postnatal depression stay on track with their treatment and access support from friends and family. Omobolanle Omisade, University of Portsmouth said“Often women with postnatal depression are managing a combination of medications and therapies. Despite really wanting to […]
ZoomDoc partners with mental health care app, Dr Julian
Doctor on demand service ZoomDoc has extended its offering to cover mental health care through a new partnership with Dr. Julian, the mental health care app. This will allow patients to receive care directly via secure video, audio or mobile messaging with qualified, vetted mental healthcare professionals. The new service […]
Thomas Cook team up with Now Healthcare to support holidaymakers
Holidaymakers who fall ill in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, can now utilise mobile consultations with UK-based GPs through the ‘Now GP’ app. Up to 600,000 holidaymakers who need medical advice whilst travelling abroad will be able to obtain GP and medication guidance and, if needed, access an […]
Cerner expands to create 50 new research and development roles
Working with the support of the Irish Government through IDA Ireland, Cerner will create 50 new roles focused on R&D and the improvement of data intelligence and population health management for their European clients. The new roles initially will focus on developing advanced predictive algorithms to run on their population […]
Worcestershire NHS Trust selects AI to tackle backlog of patient records
Nuance Communications has announced that Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has deployed Dragon Medical Network Edition to relieve clinicians’ growing administrative burden and support the mobility of its healthcare workforce out and about in the community. The deployment – following the Trust being granted Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) funding […]
