Amazon AWS has announced that Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible services. Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that automatically creates text transcripts from audio files will allow healthcare organisations to create text transcripts calls with […]
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Elliott and Veritas team up to buy Athenahealth for $5.7bn
Athenahealth has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Veritas Capital for $135 per share in cash. Athenahealth is a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory customers in the States, the sale price of $5.7bn represent a per share purchase price premium of approximately 12 percent over the company’s […]
DeepMind Streams team to be joining Google
The team behind DeedMind Streams the mobile app that supports doctors and nurses to deliver faster, better care to patients—will be joining Google. Deepmind said “Over the past three years we’ve built a team of experts in what it takes to deploy clinical tools in practice – engineers, clinicians, translational researchers and […]
Start-up aims for 90% accuracy for cancer screening with AI
Lancor Scientific a London-based startup will open a new cancer research laboratory that aims to push for 90% accuracy for cancer screening by utilising AI. The research facility will explore the market viability and roll-out of Lancor Scientific’s patented Tumour Trace OMIS (Opto-magnetic Imaging Spectroscopy) device and the utilisation of AI technology, with […]
More women attend breast screening thanks to success of digital inclusion project
An NHS project using social media to improve health by boosting digital inclusion has led to a 13 per cent increase in first time attendances for breast screening in Stoke-on-Trent over four years. The local initiative saw information about screening posted on Facebook community groups, which empowered and enabled women […]
England’s top doctor calls on NHS to use tech and Skype to cut appointments
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 […]
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. […]
