The first research paper to use data from the Greater Manchester Care Record has been published in The Lancet. The paper, entitled: ‘Temporal trends in primary care-recorded self-harm during and beyond the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Time series analysis of electronic healthcare records for 2.8 million patients in […]
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Patients set to access new entries in TPP and EMIS health records
From next month, patients will be able to access all new entries in their online health records, if their GP practice use TPP or EMIS IT systems. According to NHS Digital, patients who use online accounts – such as the NHS App – and whose surgery uses TPP, will be […]
RwHealth raises £6.1 million in Series A funding
AI and data specialist RwHealth has announced a successful raise of £6.1m in Series A funding. The company supports over 40 healthcare providers in the UK and internationally, to glean insight and value from data and analytics by utilising the company’s data science platform, through a combination of artificial intelligence, […]
New Information Standard published to support medicines information sharing
NHS Digital has published a new Information Standard on medicines information sharing, with the aim of helping to reduce errors and increase safety when patients transfer between care locations. The Standard, which ‘sets out definitions that are to be used when a health professional sends or receives patient medication and […]
Greater Manchester Combined Authority shares new national digital exclusion tool
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has launched a new national tool which can be used to calculate the risk of digital exclusion and identify areas in need of more support. The Digital Exclusion Risk Index (DERI) tool, which can be used across England, Wales and Scotland, was released last week, […]
NHS England and NHS Digital create new cancer quality of life dashboard
A new data dashboard, which illustrates quality of life levels for cancer patients in England, has been launched by the NHS. Teams from NHS England and NHS Improvement, and NHS Digital, worked on the project, which uses data from national surveys. People with cancer are being asked to complete the […]
Health Data Research UK funding to inform design of UK digital research environments
Health Data Research UK, UK Research and Innovation, and Administrative Data Research UK have launched a £2 million fund to explore, develop and progress a UK-wide digital research infrastructure – focusing on the design to connect sensitive data from across research councils. The programme aims to attracts 10 ‘Sprint Exemplar Projects’ […]
CCG signs contract for cancer digital support tool
NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG has signed a three-year contract with C the Signs, a diagnostic tool to help detect cancer at an early stage. The tool has been developed by NHS doctors and uses artificial intelligence technology to help to identify patients with suspected cancer, or […]
NHSX sets out plans to develop a National Strategy for AI in Health and Social Care
NHSX has laid out its vision, approach and areas of focus for developing a new National Strategy for AI in Health and Social Care. The NHS AI Lab is currently working on a plan that will outline its ambitions for the ‘development, implementation, scaling and monitoring of AI-driven technologies’ in […]
Video: Kettering General Hospital opens HTN Now focusing on AI patient flow and bed management
To open HTN Now September 2021, we invited Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the AI and machine learning specialists at Faculty, to raise the curtain on our latest online event with a session on their new AI bed management programme. The project, backed by NHSX, is still in […]
