Researchers at Bristol Robotics Laboratory have created the world’s first socially intelligent robotic personal trainer to guide people through exercise programmes. The robot can provide motivational voice prompts and guide you through a regime, such as on a treadmill. It’s personalised based on data such as heart rate, speed, personality, mood […]
Tag: Innovation
Messaging app wins new customers
Forward Health, a communications app has announced new deals with Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. The new contracts takes the company to a footprint of 20 NHS trusts to adopt the solution, helping them move away from pagers, […]
Interview Series: Gayle Campbell, Cardiovascular Pharmacist, Guy’s and St Thomas’
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 […]
Southampton professionals spend ‘day in life’ using 24-hour app
Staff at University of Southampton NHS Foundation Trust are using an innovative app to experience a day in the life of their patients. The inflammatory bowel disease team in Southampton have become the first clinical team in the UK to use the In My Shoes app to understand how Crohn’s disease […]
New research to study if phone usage can detect mental health relapse
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new research programme to understand if there are links with phone usage to detect and predict relapse in people suffering from a serious mental illness (SMI). The new study is to take place at the Trust as part of the REST […]
Cancer web tool receives NICE endorsement
A tool to help doctors and patients make informed choices about prostate cancer treatment has been approved by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The Predict Prostate model and web tool was created by Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s (CUH) Academic Urology Group and the University […]
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 […]
From infection control at Alder Hey Hospital to Health Tech entrepreneur – an interview with Richard Cooke founder of Hy-genie
Richard Cooke, founder of Hy-genie, is a pretty extraordinary entrepreneur. Retired from his position as the ‘Director of Infection Prevention & Control’ at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Richard is revolutionising hand hygiene compliance across the healthcare system with his tech startup Hy-genie. We recently sat down with him to talk […]
Inhealthcare launches new digital service to increase school vaccinations
Inhealthcare has developed a new digital service with NHS immunisation teams in England to manage the entire schedule for vaccinating children at school. Parental consent is a necessity for school vaccinations but many NHS providers are locked into labour intensive paper-based procedures. Routine vaccination rates are falling, according to Public […]
Living With app launched at University College London Hospital
University College London Hospital has launched a new digital service, Living With, an app to help oesophageal cancer patients and nurse specialists. The new smart phone app and web portal helps oesophageal cancer patients and their carers understand and manage their journey better. A pilot is running in Barnet Hospital that […]
