In our latest interview we spoke with Gayle Campbell, a senior cardiovascular pharmacist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, who has developed MedTap – a new medications app to support patients take their medications correctly. MedTap, features videos with NHS clinicians providing similar information to what patients would hear […]
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Amazon Alexa can now send medication reminders
Amazon is moving into the medicine adherence space by adding new functionality to Amazon Alexa. Non-adherence is well documented, with greater than 30% of patients with long term conditions failing to take their medicines correctly. This can result in possible hospital admission or deterioration. Amazon said they have introduced the […]
Barts Health plans £7.6m IT infrastructure developments
Barts Health NHS Trust is to invest £7.6 million to move its IT networks onto the cloud and develop its IT infrastructure, following a series of approved loans announced in October. In October the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock announced £184 million in funding to modernise hospitals, of which Barts Health […]
Interview Series: Lisa Emery, Chief Information Officer, The Royal Marsden NHS FT
In our latest interview we met with Lisa Emery, CIO at The Royal Marsden NHS FT and asked Lisa few questions. Could you tell me about yourself and your organisation? I’m CIO at The Royal Marsden and I’ve worked there just over a year. This CIO post is the first […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ app boosts life-saving research
The King’s Health Partners Cancer Biobank at Guy’s and St Thomas’, in partnership with Focus Games, has launched this week an app to help patients understand the biobank and why their consent is so important. The game is designed to get more patients taking part in life-saving research by explaining patient […]
Health Tech Trends Survey: Machine Learning in Healthcare
In the latest report in the HTN Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked healthcare professionals about machine learning. There were two striking details which emerged from this particular survey question; firstly, inline with our survey article from last week, where respondents overwhelmingly thought positively about the potential […]
Interview Series: Dr Afzal Chaudhry, CCIO, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT
In our latest interview we asked Dr Afzal Chaudhry from Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT a few questions to hear about some of the organisation’s recent successes and what is coming up for them over the next 12 months. Could you tell me about a recent project you are working on? […]
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Command Centre officially opens
At a launch event today Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has officially opened its new Command Centre. The Command Centre, using technology from GE Healthcare Partners, went live earlier this year and was recently awarded Tech Project of the Year in the innovative Health Tech Awards 2019. The Trust said […]
New algorithm at UHB supports prescribing
A new algorithm developed by staff at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is automatically providing the correct doses for doctors to treat a patient after an overdose. The trust said the electronic prescription tool has reduced the number of errors when prescribing a drug for paracetamol overdoses to […]
Alder Hey leads study for early warning system for children
Alder Hey is leading on a new study called DETECT (Dynamic Electronic Tracking and Escalation) to reduce critical care transfers and to record vital signs. The study has received £1.25m in funding from the National Institute for Health Research Invention for Innovation Programme (NIHR i4i) and involves The University of Liverpool, Edge […]
