A health tech accelerator to support innovators navigate the NHS in the Yorkshire and Humber region has opened for applications. The Propel@YH programme now in its second year, is aimed at start-ups that have developed innovations or products to support responses to COVID-19. It provides 10 start ups with a six-month support […]
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Patients Know Best integrates with NHS App
Patients Know Best (PKB), a personal health records provider, has now achieved full integration with the NHS App. The company said its ‘All-in-One’ integration with the NHS App will allow patients to directly access their combined dataset from PKB within the NHS App interface. The Patients Know Best solution now supports […]
App launched to remotely monitor cancer patients
Careology, a digital cancer care platform, has launched a new tool to support clinicians to remotely monitor their cancer patients’ health in real-time. The development provides clinicians with previously unavailable patient health data and insights from wearable devices and the Careology app. The company said it will help clinicians pro-actively […]
Liverpool Heart and Chest partners with AI company
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS FT has partnered with an artificial intelligence company to use the technology in clinical practice and lung cancer screening. Working with Amsterdam-based medtech company Aidence, the trust will use the AI solution, Veye Chest, to support radiologists analyse the approximately 7,000 routine and screening chest CT scans […]
Self-care tech platform partners with Imperial College London to map COVID-19 symptoms
Researchers from Imperial College London have launched a new initiative with self-care technology platform Your.MD. The organisations will collaborate to map and research the spread of coronavirus of people with self-reported mild or moderate COVID-19. The tool from Your.MD is called COVID-19 Symptom Mapper, which compares, analyses and maps reported symptoms worldwide […]
RIVIAM awarded Innovate UK funding to enhance social prescribing platform
Innovate UK has awarded RIVIAM £48,450 in funding to support further development of its new social prescribing platform. The platform is currently being used in Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) by Virgin Care, BaNES Council and third sector organisations, including Age UK BaNES, Citizens Advice BaNES and Bath Mind. […]
Ireland donates COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation Public Health initiative
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has announced the code for its COVID-19 Tracker app will be donated as Open Source to Linux Foundation Public Health initiative. The move is hoped to help regions worldwide quickly build and deploy their own contact tracing apps. In Ireland 1 million people installed the app […]
HTN News in Brief
In our news in brief this month we feature 3D printing technology helping rehabilitate spinal-cord injury patients, how Bolton has used technology during COVID-19 and a health tech startup that has received €2.5 million to develop a respiratory monitoring device. We also highlight a new appointment at Draper & Dash to […]
DXC to sell healthcare business to Dedalus Group for £413m
Dedalus Group, an Italy-based healthcare software provider, has announced that it has reached a binding agreement for the acquisition of the healthcare division of DXC Technology. Founded in Florence in 1982, Dedalus Group is a leading healthcare and diagnostic software provider, employing over 5,500 people. Dedalus Group is 75% owned by […]
HTN and NHSX Blueprinting Team partner
HTN is pleased to announce we will be collaborating with the NHSX Blueprinting Team as part of the HTN Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions. The awards, now in the fourth year, help to share, recognise and highlight projects, teams, innovations and partnerships from across health and care that have […]
