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 […]
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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 […]
Lexmark partners with NHS Shared Business Services in managed print services
Lexmark has announced a partnership with NHS Shared Business Services to support its aim of meeting paperless and digital targets, while delivering savings, efficiencies and improving patient care. “We are really excited about our partnership with Lexmark, which will help NHS organisations to deliver real and evidenced savings and efficiencies,” […]
Walsall Healthcare adopts Totalmobile to reduce admissions
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is set for productivity improvements and cost savings through the adoption of mobile working solutions provided by Totalmobile within its community nursing team. The new system incorporates the capture of referral and contact information, dynamically schedules appointments, and allows visit information to be immediately inputted on to […]
Scottish first as clinical trial allows National Hospital to remotely monitor heart failure patients
In a Scottish first, specialists at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital have implanted a new device which remotely monitors heart failure patients as part of the COAST clinical trial. The study will see up to 10 patients receive cardioMEMS implants over two years with the aim of proving the device […]
Matt Hancock, Health and Social Care Secretary: Tech an early priority
Now you may know that I am passionate about the opportunities that new technology – used intelligently – present to us. Because we are one NHS, our health system is uniquely placed to become the most advanced health system in the world – one where technology addresses the user need […]
