Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS’s digital strategy is available in text and video format, covering their visions, goals, digital strategy mission and actions for the future. The strategy opens with a comment from Dr Jane Haplin, CEO and SRO For Digital Transformation Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. Dr Haplin highlights the […]
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Industry view: Where in healthcare do you expect the digital focus to lie in 2023?
For our latest industry view piece, we posed three questions to our health tech audience: where in healthcare do you expect the most digital progress to be made? Does your expectation match your hope – do you think the focus will be on the areas that need it the most? If you […]
Frontiers study explores user engagement in mobile apps for people living with schizophrenia
A study entitled ‘User engagement in mobile apps for people with schizophrenia: A scoping review’ has been published in Frontiers, aiming to better understand the factors and strategies that may encourage user engagement and facilitate extended use of apps for people living with schizophrenia. Authors Raquel Simões de Almeida and […]
Interview: Michael Abtar and Dr Bright Mawudor on embedding security into solutions by design and adhering to standards
For the second of our two features focusing on data and cyber security, we spoke to Michael Abtar and Dr Bright Mawudor from IG Smart. Michael and Bright discussed the key data and cyber security threats facing healthcare in 2023; embedding security into solutions by design; the importance of adhering […]
Featured interview: Open Medical’s Harry Lykostratis on cyber and data security
For our January focus on cyber and data security, we were joined by Harry Lykostratis. Harry is Managing Director, Lead Engineer and Founder of Open Medical, as well as a practising orthopaedic surgeon. On his background and current role As well as founding Open Medical and my role as the […]
Poll: How much time this week did you put towards innovation, driving new ideas or creative thinking?
The latest question we asked to our health tech audience revolved around creative thinking for new ideas and innovation. We asked: How much time this week did you put towards innovation, driving new ideas or creative thinking? 69 people took part in the poll, with participants from a vast range […]
Special report: thought leadership and case studies on tackling the elective care backlog
For the latest edition of the HTN special report series, we’re exploring how the elective care backlog can be tackled, with input from Alcidion and Open Medical. CQC recently noted that the waiting list for planned elective NHS treatment has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic. In light of […]
Royal Marsden counts down to EHR launch
The Royal Marsden NHS FT has started to count down to the launch of Connect, its new electronic health record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, Epic will be introduced across the trust in March 2023. This month has seen the […]
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust shares digital strategy until 2025
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has published its digital strategy and plans for the next three years. The strategy opens with comments from chief clinical information officer, Ashley May, in which she states: “I believe that digital systems can support long-term change and improvement in this trust. It […]
King’s College London receives grant for technical development of a digital twin for the heart
Professor Steven Niederer from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London has received a £1.5 million Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council grant to explore the technical development of a digital twin for the heart. The technical study is to allow researchers to create computational […]
