The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published a medical technology strategy, setting out how they will ensure that the health and social care system can “reliably access safe, effective and innovative technologies.” DHSC has worked with partners across the industry, the government and the healthcare system to […]
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HTN Now: a session with NHS England blueprinting team and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
For the final webinar of HTN Now: January, we were joined by Saj Kahrod, Assistant Director of Blueprinting from the NHS England Blueprinting Team, along with Sarah Atkins (Scan4Safety Nursing & Product Specialist) and Rachael Ellis (Director) from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH). Saj, Sarah and Rachael kindly […]
CQC partners with Microsoft for data platform
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has partnered with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and a Microsoft Azure data platform. By introducing the data platform CQC aims to “enable the CQC team to focus on driving improvements for the providers it assesses” and help the organisation become more […]
National Data Guardian public benefit evaluations for data use in research, planning and innovation
The National Data Guardian (NDG), Dr Nicola Byrne, has recently published guidance with an aim to support organisations in carrying out public benefit evaluations when they are planning to use or allow access to data collected during the delivery of care for planning, research and innovation projects. The guidance is delivered in […]
16 healthcare data research programmes launched
Health Data Research UK (HDR) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are launching research projects to examine how winter pressures can be eased by the NHS. By using data-driven approaches, the research aims to identify pressures, understand the causes and develop ways to overcome and avoid […]
Radar Healthcare partners with Circle Health Group
Radar Healthcare has partnered with Circle Health Group to introduce its risk management and compliance system across 54 hospitals. With the aim of unlocking safety data to improve patient outcomes, Circle Health hospitals will move away from using multiple systems and use one platform across its network. The project started […]
King’s College London receives grant for technical development of a digital twin for the heart
Professor Steven Niederer from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London has received a £1.5 million Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council grant to explore the technical development of a digital twin for the heart. The technical study is to allow researchers to create computational […]
£480 million NHS Federated Data Platform tender opens
NHS England has opened a tender process to procure a federated data platform for the NHS. It is anticipated the contract value will be £360 million for five years, with an option for two 12-month extensions worth £120 million. The platform will be owned and controlled by the NHS, where […]
£150 million AI and extended reality technologies framework planned
NHS Shared Business Services has published a prior information notice of a planned purchasing framework for artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies. The indicative value of the framework is £150 million over four years from August 2023. NHS Shared Business Services intends to launch a tender process to put in […]
Google researchers evaluate AI language models for clinical application
A group of researchers from Google Research and DeepMind have published an evaluation of an artificial intelligence application used to understand and generate language in a clinical context. As part of the evaluation the team propose a benchmark framework to assess performance of language applications across various parameters. The researchers […]
