Hospital patient flow and appointment specialist companies Intouch with Health and DrDoctor have partnered to deliver a completely-digital outpatient management solution. The solution will allow hospitals to encourage patients to schedule, view and change outpatient appointments themselves via an online portal, significantly reducing the need for paper-based booking forms and […]
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Servelec HSC wins new customer in Lincolnshire
Servelec HSC has won a new contract win to support secondary care mental health services across Lincolnshire with its EPR solution, RiO. The company said the key objective for Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was to procure a fit for purpose system that meets the key requirements of the Trust, […]
Ideagen secures first US acquisition in $9m healthcare deal
Ideagen has announced the acquisition of American healthcare software specialists, Medforce Technologies Inc, for a deal worth $8.7m. Medforce is a growing, profitable and cash generative organisation which has successfully developed its Command suite of enterprise information management, workflow and compliance software since 1993. Its flagship CommandCenter product is used by […]
Scientists develop tiny tooth-mounted sensors that can track what you eat
Monitoring in real time what happens in and around our bodies can be invaluable in the context of health care or clinical studies, but not so easy to do. That could soon change thanks to new, miniaturized sensors developed by researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering that, when […]
TPP sign agreement with First Chengmei Medical in Beijing
TPP have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Hainan-based company, First Chengmei Medical Industry Group. First Chengmei Medical Industry Group are a company based in the Chinese province of Hainan, they specialise in medical care, elderly care and financial investment. The firm offers a range of medical, management and construction […]
Carelink migrates customers to HSCN
Carelink, the UK healthcare managed infrastructure and network services business has successfully migrated to the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN), the replacement network for N3. The migration to HSCN involved seventy of their customer organisations. Carelink was one of the first wave of suppliers to achieve HSCN Stage 2 compliance […]
Highland Marketing: Are you delivering the right messages?
Honing your messaging is vital if you want to tell potential customers what you have to offer them. Becky Mellor from health tech communications expert Highland Marketing has some tips for getting it right. Last year, I stopped being the marketing manager for a healthcare IT supplier, and moved over […]
NHS England backs innovations
NHS England has today also announced a nationally backed trial of a technology to cut missed hospital appointments by supporting DrDoctor, as well as a further £1.5 million to support the spread of innovations. A new type of ‘bowel scope’ and a device that cuts infections caused by catheters will be […]
Previse teams up with Virtualstock to deliver ‘purchase to pay’ supply chain model
Previse, the instant supplier payment decision company, and Virtualstock, the provider of digital supply chain solutions are partnering to deliver the first fully integrated purchase to pay supply chain system with cash on delivery for suppliers in the UK. The two companies will enable clients to merge their accounts payable […]
Artificial intelligence to help develop new Parkinson’s treatments
A Parkinson’s UK research proposal has won the BenevolentAI Award. The project will now use artificial intelligence to find new treatments for Parkinson’s. The project, which The Cure Parkinson’s Trust contributed to, was submitted to the inaugural Benevolent AI Award – a competition run with the Association of Medical Research […]
