A new app that records the beating of a user’s heart through a mobile phone has been co-created by researchers from academic institutions, including King’s College London (KCL). Staff from KCL’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and the Netherlands’ Maastricht University worked with designers from the Cellule design […]
Tag: Innovation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital introduces way-finder app for patients
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is launching a ‘way-finder app’ to help patients navigate their way around the site. The app is part of an initiative by the hospital’s official charity, CW+, called CW Innovation – a programme that focuses on testing and scaling the latest innovations with the aim of […]
University of Surrey and Vinehealth awarded £1m grant
Vinehealth and University of Surrey have been awarded a £1 million grant to trial a support app for patients undergoing cancer treatment. The grant, from Innovate UK, is to to fund a randomised controlled trial of the cancer companion app, which aims to support patient self-management. Its mobile app supports cancer patients […]
Huma raises £91 million to scale internationally
Huma, a digital platform that supports a ‘hospital at home’ model, has raised $130 million (£91m) from investors. The company said the investment will be used to scale the platform, and to support pharmaceutical and research industries to run decentralised clinical trials. In 2020, the company was supported by NHSX to […]
Implementing digital innovations: Nuffield Trust shares top 10 tips
The Nuffield Trust has shared its learnings and lessons on how to integrate digital health innovations into health and social care services, using findings from a ‘large-scale evaluation’ in East London. According to the think-tank, patients and staff are still not seeing the full potential and benefits of the digital […]
Digital midwife develops innovative new maternity emergency system
A midwife at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is developing a new allocation system for use in the event of an emergency on its maternity unit. The digital midwife, Caroline Lacy, is building the system – known as an ‘Emergency Role Allocation (ERA) System’ – to help clinicians declare emergencies and […]
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust expands use of virtual wards
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT) is expanding its virtual wards service to support heart failure and pneumonia patients. The decision to open the service to other suitable patients follows its use of a remote monitoring platform and tools for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. HTC has already been working with […]
Diagnostics is the most popular AI area, NHS AI Lab survey finds in latest review
The NHS AI Lab has provided a progress review for 2020 – 2021, including sharing key findings from its AI survey, as well as case studies and its plans for the future. Focusing on AI technologies and AI-driven tools, the NHSX-hosted lab recently surveyed the UK’s AI community, before comparing […]
Health Data Research UK releases report on progress to date
Health Data Research UK has published a new report to outline its story so far and progress to date. The report, ‘Improving Health Data: Impacts from Health Data Research Hubs’, details their journey since launching in October of 2019, when seven centres of excellence in data, tools, scientific knowledge and innovation, formed. The ‘hubs’ include: BREATHE – […]
Chelsea and Westminster NHS charity celebrates tech roll-out and funding final
The official charity of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, CW+, has celebrated two successes this week – a innovation funding final and the roll-out of new thermal screening technology. One of the trust’s cardiologists secured funding for a digital innovation project, following a Rapid Adoption Innovation Call […]
