A new app is to be rolled-out by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust to support patients during and following cancer treatment. The app has been developed by Health Call and technology provider Inhealthcare. The project has been funded by the Northern Cancer Alliance, with content developed by the Macmillan […]
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HTN Trends Series: Health tech leaders discuss their 2020 priorities
At the start of the year as part of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, we asked health tech leaders for their aims and priorities for 2020. In this article we revisited this theme and spoke with health tech leaders across the country to discuss their priorities […]
Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020 meet the winners
As part of HTN Digital Week we held the Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions, to recognise the great work of teams that have made a difference to health and care through technology, partnerships and innovation. Vijay Magon, CEO of CCube Solutions said “I would like to […]
Video: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Health Education England discusses digital literacy, digital capabilities and engagement
On day three of HTN Digital Week we were delighted to be joined by Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy Workstream Lead at Health Education England. Henrietta took us through building a digitally literate workforce, how to develop capabilities in digital literacy, engagement and what works. “HEE in 2018 […]
Boris Johnson: “no country in the world has a working contact-tracing app”
On the 24th June, at Prime Minister ‘s Questions, Boris Johnson stated “no country in the world has a working contact-tracing app” in defence of the UK not having widescale rollout of the NHS coronavirus app. However, Germany appear to be seeing success with its own test and trace app […]
NHS Resolution appoints first CIO
NHS Resolution, an arm’s-length body of the Department of Health and Social Care, has appointed its first Chief Information Officer. Following 26 years at Accenture, Niamh McKenna has been appointed NHS Resolution’s CIO. The organisation provides expertise to the NHS on resolving concerns and disputes fairly, sharing learning for improvement and preserving […]
NHSX launches national patient video library
As part of the NHSX COVID-19 response, a national video library has been launched in collaboration with healthcare video provider, Health and Care Innovations. The videos have been developed with NHS clinicians to work within care pathways to help patients; to help support a reduction in length of appointments, and […]
Feature: Digital First Primary Care, X-on and TPP
In our Digital First Primary Care feature we speak with TPP and X-on to hear how the organisations are respectively driving digital primary care. We explore the past few months, some of the recent challenges, and what’s next for the providers. We speak with Paul Bensley, CEO of primary care […]
Health Tech Awards 2020 deadline extended
The deadline for the Health Tech Awards 2020 sponsored by CCube Solutions has been extended. You have until 23:59 24th July 2020 to enter our main awards, now in the fourth year. The Health Tech Awards 2020 celebrate and recognise great teams, projects, partnerships, collaborations, innovation, technology, programmes and initivives that have made […]
Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020 Winners Revealed
Following a fantastic digital awards evening HTN is delighted to reveal the highly commended entries and winners in the Health Tech Leaders Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions. Key to the awards, the HTN team will be writing about the entries to feature across our channels over the upcoming weeks, […]
