Digital Health and Care Wales has issued a contract notice for a Network as a Service (NasS) solution worth in excess of £2 million, designed to enable the department to “strategically interconnect its physical datacenter estate, public cloud platforms, and consumer base using a resilient underlay/transit network”. According to the […]
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MHRA opens applications for AI Airlock pilot, seeking innovations offering patient benefits and novel AI applications
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has opened applications for its AI Airlock pilot, offering innovators the chance to benefit from expert support and sandbox testing for medical devices utilising AI. Launched in spring of 2024, the AI Airlock programme is described by the MHRA as “a proactive, […]
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s plan to improve mental health services highlights data as “key enabler”
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s three-year plan to improve mental health services has highlighted the role of data as a “key enabler” in realigning services so that inpatient provision better fits the needs of the population, following a self-assessment involving multiple stakeholders. Focusing on the quality of the service’s inpatient offer, […]
HL7 shares guidance on standards-based AI and ML data lifecycle
Health Level Seven International (HL7) has published guidance on the artificial intelligence and machine learning data lifecycle, intended as an “informative document” to help developers in promoting the use of of standards to “improve the trust and quality of interoperable data used in AI models”. The paper provides a range […]
Ireland HSE’s Digital Health Roadmap in focus, with aim for digital budget between 4% – 6% of overall healthcare expenditure
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has published its Digital Health Roadmap, setting out a vision to create better health outcomes through a digitally enabled environment around six core principles: the patient as an empowered partner; workforce and workplace; digitally enabled and connected care; data-driven services; digital health ecosystem and innovation; […]
BMA confirms mandatory extraction of data on GP cloud-based telephony system usage
The British Medical Association and GPC England, the representative body for GPS in the country, have shared an update on NHS England plans to extract data from GP clinical systems on cloud-based telephony usage, confirming that all general practices are “mandated to comply with this invitation and approve the collection” […]
Royal Cornwall Hospitals outlines role of digital and data in research and development strategy
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has published its research and development strategy, running until 2028 and built around three key objectives: to undertake a journey of improvement including utilisation of digital healthcare tools and services, to ensure safe, high quality care, and to support and value the workforce. With regards […]
NHSE shares guidance on single point of access functions, including role of digital and data
NHS England has published guidance around the implementation of single point of access (SPoA) functions, designed to simplify access to services by supporting onward referrals and winter resilience; as part of the guidance, NHSE highlights requirements for digital and data as well as how digital tools can be used to […]
Barts Health NHS Trust to procure site-wide patient monitoring system
Barts Health NHS Trust has published a prior information notice highlighting plans to procure a site-wide, real-time system for the monitoring of vital signs at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. With a trust-wide solution for intermittent vital signs monitoring already in place, Barts Health will seek a solution offering “comprehensive […]
Audience views: biggest concerns for AI in healthcare, and the barriers to responsible AI
Following on from our recent panel discussion exploring whether the reality of AI can live up to current hype and how bias in healthcare data can be managed, we posed two follow-up questions to our audience to discern views around AI concerns and perspectives on barriers to responsible AI. Firstly, […]
