NHS England Medical Director, Professor Stephen Powis is calling on the NHS to utilise available tech and innovation to reduce the thousands of unnecessary outpatient appointments carried out every day. In his foreword to the Royal College of Physicians report published last week, Professor Stephen Powis called on trusts and CCGs […]
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Innovative healthcare solutions invited to apply for funding
Companies with innovative healthcare solutions are invited to apply for a share of £300,000 Health Innovation Manchester funding. The fund is primarily looking for innovations that enhance mental health or community-based care. Small and medium-sized enterprises with innovations which are either market ready or close to being market ready are […]
East Kent Hospitals goes live with Allscripts PAS
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has successfully switched on its Allscripts PAS in a three-day operation at the start of October. The switch to the new system followed the migration of 42 million records from one system to the other. Andy Barker, IT director at East Kent Hospitals, […]
Populo Consulting eyes digital health growth
Digital health consultancy Populo Consulting has announced the appointment of a Jonah Aburrow-Jones as new managing director. Populo formed two years ago. Since then, it has grown rapidly and works with the Salford, Oxford, and Imperial global digital exemplars, the Mersey Care mental health GDE, and the Manchester local health […]
HTN 100: Arden & GEM CSU and NHS England Specialised Services, Health guidance app and ZoomDoc
Arden & GEM CSU and NHS England Specialised Services The elimination of hepatitis C is a worldwide aspiration and one that the NHS hopes to achieve in England by 2025. In order to achieve this objective, accurate information about patients with the disease and the effectiveness of treatments is needed. […]
HTN Awards 2018 Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners and the highly commended entries in the Health Tech Awards 2018. Catch up on the Awards night by viewing our live feed here and read about the many fantastic projects in our shortlist here. Overall Winner MySunrise App and Royal Cornwall Hospital Digital […]
Enovacom publishes FHIR Whitepaper
Enovacom the provider of innovative healthcare software, enabling the exchange and sharing of patient data has published a white paper on the FHIR interoperability standards. To download the paper please click here. FHIR® has emerged as the new healthcare messaging standard and the white paper discusses the challenges facing the […]
King’s Radiologist uses AI to better diagnose lung condition
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, […]
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, […]
