Here we highlight some of the news we covered in August. If you have a health tech story please get in touch by email to news@thehtn.co.uk Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announces tech innovations Ripple Foundation launches its showcase stack North West trusts take ‘giant leap’ in connecting […]
Other News
Agfa HealthCare and Australian Capital Territory Government sign contract for Territory-wide Enterprise Imaging
Agfa HealthCare has announced that it has won a competitive tender for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Directorate. A three-plus-four-year contract has been signed to supply the Enterprise Imaging platform for the territory-wide healthcare network. The project kicked off in July, 2017, with an expected go-live in the first […]
Accenture to transform diabetic patient care using data-driven analytics platform
Accenture is collaborating with Roche to improve how diabetes care is managed and delivered through the development of a data-driven core analytics platform for Roche’s digital diabetes ecosystem. The platform and ecosystem will seamlessly connect patients, their caregivers, and healthcare providers with a suite of new digital health services. Under […]
Top universities to deliver new NHS Digital Academy
Three of the world’s top universities are to deliver the new NHS Digital Academy. Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation, The University of Edinburgh and Harvard Medical School will offer a world-class training programme in change management, leadership and clinical informatics to CIOs, CCIOs and aspiring digital leaders. The NHS Digital […]
NHS Digital endorses RCN ‘Every Nurse an E-Nurse Campaign’
NHS Digital has endorsed the Royal College of Nursing’s campaign “Every nurse an e-nurse”, and pledged to play a supporting role in realising the campaign’s ambition. It comes as NHS Digital today launches its first e-nursing week in support of the campaign for a digital-ready workforce. It is estimated that […]
Funding for innovations with the ability to transform cancer screening and diagnosis
A search for innovations with the ability to transform cancer screening, and facilitate earlier and faster diagnosis is underway. SBRI Healthcare – an NHS England investment fund led by the AHSN Network – invites entrepreneurs to apply for up to £1.1 million investment to develop innovations. Since the early 1990s, […]
Norfolk Recovery Partnership trials revolutionary fingerprint-based drug test
Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP), the organisation that provides advice and treatment for adults with drug and alcohol problems across Norfolk, has completed a successful trial of Intelligent Fingerprinting’s revolutionary fingerprint-based drug screening system. The NRP drug rehabilitation service, which is run by a partnership of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
Patients Know Best and Synertec to streamline patient communication
Patients Know Best (PKB), and innovative mail management supplier, Synertec, have formed a strategic partnership to help the NHS exceed its 5 year target to be paperless at the point of care by 2020. Currently, the NHS sends millions of letters through the post each year to patients before and […]
21 teams selected to put innovative ideas into practice
The Health Foundation has selected 21 new projects to be part of the sixth round of its £1.5 million innovation programme, Innovating for Improvement. Innovating for Improvement aims to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services. The […]
£30million contract signed for major IT investment at Bolton NHS FT
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has this week signed a major contract to provide enhanced digital solutions to improve patient care and outcomes. The £30million project sees the Trust work with Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Patient Record (EPR) to implement an electronic record of every aspect of a patient’s care. Currently different […]
