The New Zealand Ministry of Health has completed a trial for Bluetooth card contact tracing technology, which is intended to help minimise COVID-19 outbreaks. Purported to be world-leading, the community-led tech trial was focused on a wearable Bluetooth card designed by Te Arawa COVID hub, the Ministry of Health, the […]
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Milton Keynes adopts mass vaccination workflow tool
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS FT has adopted a mass vaccination workflow tool, as part of its Cerner electronic patient record, to support its Covid-19 vaccination programme. The trust is one of the fifty Covid-19 vaccination hubs across the country, and decided to become early adopters of the new workflow […]
National system introduced in Wales to support COVID-19 vaccine roll out
A new system developed by NHS Wales Informatics Service for creating and scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments has been launched. The Welsh Immunisation System, is an in-house development, to support the roll out of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and others as they become available. The system is being used across all Health […]
UCL researchers publish ‘Find, Test, Track, Isolate and Support’ Covid dashboard
Researchers at UCL-led collaboration i-sense, have published a dashboard to collate data on five stages; Find, Test, Track, Isolate and Support, with an aim to provide a complete picture of the pandemic. The i-sense COVID Response Evaluation Dashboard (COVID RED) collates and presents data from the Office of National Statistics, Public Health […]
Boots to launch 12 minute Covid testing service
Boots has launched a new in-store COVID-19 testing service, specifically aimed at those without symptoms and is soon to launch a test to return results in 12 minutes. The new 48-hour service is available in 10 stores from this week, before rolling out to 50 Boots stores throughout November. The […]
Oxford researchers explore machine learning tech for Covid testing
A team of scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Physics are using machine learning technology as part of a diagnostic test, said to identify viruses in less than five minutes. The University is currently working with external advisors to set-up a spinout company and are seeking investment. Their aim is […]
Covid-19: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area?
On Monday 12th October the Government announced a new local approach to managing and containing the spread of coronavirus. It included the introduction of local COVID alert levels to ensure the right levels of intervention are targeted in the right places. To check the number of coronavirus cases in your area […]
Interview Series: Tracy Taylor, Chief Executive, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
In this interview in our CEO Series, we speak with Tracy Taylor, Chief Executive of Nottingham University Hospitals. We delve into how elements of her leadership have changed over the past 6 months, as well as discussing population behaviour and how this has come to the fore during the pandemic. […]
Part Two: Health tech experts reflect and share learnings
In the second part of our feature, HTN asked the health tech industry to reflect on some of their learnings this year. In part one of the feature contributors responded to our open brief with a variety of comments, touching on the importance of people and looking after your teams, […]
COVID Symptom Study app research highlights delirium as a key sign of COVID-19 in older people
New analysis from researchers at King’s College London using information from the COVID Symptom Study app and patients admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in London, has shown that delirium is a key symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older people. The findings have been published in the journal Age and Ageing, […]
