The adoption of technology in healthcare is evolving the way institutions are delivering services and improving the management of patient care and treatment. Clinicians and those actively working in health, are helping to identify problems that digital innovation would solve and working with companies such as Nova to co-found their […]
Tag: Innovation
St Thomas’ pharmacist develops medications app
Gayle Campbell a pharmacist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has developed a new medications app to support patients take their medications correctly. The app called MedTap, features videos with NHS clinicians to provide answers to common medication questions such as when and how to take pills, what to do about […]
Health Foundation award £67K to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to build digital road map
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £67,000 from the Health Foundation’s Advancing Applied Analytics programme to develop new software aimed to transform NHS outpatient care. The project will use machine learning to track 32 million datasets containing patient arrival times, length of consultations, duration of appointments and […]
New app helps reduce procedural anxiety for children
A new study from Edge Hill University has shown that children using the new Xploro app are significantly less anxious before undergoing procedures than those who received traditional hospital information. Evidence shows children who are less anxious about hospital procedures have better outcomes, with the new Xploro app designed to […]
Wireless microcomputer implant first for UHB
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has implanted a wireless microcomputer into its first patient. The wireless in-heart microcomputer was recently implanted into a patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. The device, called V-LAP, is implanted into the heart’s left atrium, and provides accurate data about the heart and its performance, […]
Medtech Accelerator awards £150k to two innovations
Medtech Accelerator, a specialist financial scheme for early stage medtech innovations, has announced awards totalling £150,000 to two innovation projects in the fields of critical care logistics and cornea replacement surgery. LocANTS, a software platform that facilitates the sharing of critical data when moving a patient between hospital sites, and […]
Bath Spa University launches app to tackle mental health problems
Bath Spa University has launched a new app to tackle wellbeing and metal health problems in the NHS. The app has been designed exclusively for the NHS to help tackle mental health issues amongst staff, after a new study by Bath Spa University identified some of the possible causes of psychosocial […]
North West health tech entrepreneurs win European funding
Two innovations have been awarded €50,000 to help develop after being successful in the final round of the European Institute of Technology’s (EIT) Health Headstart Awards. Xploro, which was a spin-out of Manchester-based digital innovation agency Corporation Pop, is a digital therapeutics platform. The platform uses augmented reality, gameplay and […]
Software lets surgeon see real-time 3D map of heart
University of Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust is utilising innovative software that allows a surgeon to view inside a patient’s heart in real time while applying treatment. Professor and Leicester’s Hospitals Cardiologist Andre Ng used the new technique in operations on two patients suffering from atrial fibrillation (AF). The commonest form […]
Researchers integrate genomics data in to Irish electronic patient records
Researchers from Ireland’s HSE Epilepsy Lighthouse Project and FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for Chronic and Rare Neurological Diseases, have developed a new genomics module in the Irish National Epilepsy Electronic Patient Record system. Many adults and children with epilepsy of unknown causes now undergo genomic testing, which can help […]
