NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) have announced the first healthcare providers that are set to take part in pilots of the Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt), a new national data alignment programme between the NHS and private sector. The collaboration will lead to private healthcare data […]
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Draft data strategy policy paper published
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHSX have published a draft policy document, data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data, aiming to set out priorities and commitments on how data is used and shared, and the underlying standards and infrastructure. The strategy highlights ‘bold commitments’ […]
£36 million funding for AI technologies
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a £36 million increase in funding for AI technology-based healthcare services and products. 38 projects will be awarded funding and have been backed by NHSX and Accelerated Access Collaborative (ACC); in total 336 projects submitted applications to join the programme. Sir […]
NHS Digital Terminology Server goes live
The NHS Digital Terminology Server is now live. The platform supports data exchange between systems and integration of local coding systems with national and international coding languages, such as SNOMED-CT and FHIR. In September 2020, NHS Digital awarded a contract to Dedalus and CSIRO, the creators of Ontoserver, to implement […]
NHS Digital announces delay to collection of GP data
NHS Digital has announced a two month delay to the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme, a primary care data collection service originally set to come into place on 1 July 2021. On 12 May, NHS Digital announced the data collection service, to make near-real-time information and data […]
BMA and RCGP call for delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme
The Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association have called on the government to delay the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme. On 12 May, NHS Digital announced the new primary care data collection service was set to come into place on 1 July 2021, to […]
AI tool developed to streamline pathology workflow
A team of researchers, academics and pathologists from the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) has developed an artificial intelligence tool to help streamline pathology workflows – which could speed up diagnoses of prostate cancer. The multidisciplinary team from Oxford has created an algorithm that […]
Feature: a data-driven future for healthcare?
The NHS, academics and industry professionals have been relying on data more than ever, to help shape COVID-19 responses, research studies, predict patient demand, identify stranded patients, develop new modernised pathways and improve patient outcomes. Here, we take a look at one of the solutions available to healthcare providers – […]
Alder Hey selects American based AI tool
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with American based AI start-up Diveplane, to explore synthetic data use, whilst ensuring privacy. The specialist children’s hospital is set to use the ‘GEMINAI’ product from the startup based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It uses patented techniques to create new synthetic data […]
Insource completes acquisition of capacity planning company
Insource Ltd – a data management provider to the NHS – has announced the acquisition of Gooroo, a company which specialises in capacity planning. The deal is set to strengthen Insource’s offering of Elective Care Recovery data management solutions to the NHS and private UK healthcare providers, as well as […]
