Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB has shared a market engagement prior information notice indicating plans to deliver a digital front door to act as a single entry point for citizens and provide access to a range of products, services and partners supporting the coordination of personalised, centralised and efficient care. In […]
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Pilot to see direct referrals for breast diagnostics from NHS App in Somerset
A new trial will see women with concerning lumps directly referred to a breast diagnostic clinic via 111 online on the NHS App, with the aim of supporting faster diagnosis, reducing stress and freeing up GP appointments. The scheme will begin in November and will be localised to Somerset, with […]
Digital Health and Care Wales pilots dental access portal at Powys Teaching Health Board
A new digital service designed to provide a central platform for Welsh Health Boards to allocate places for routine NHS dental treatment is being piloted at Powys Teaching Health Board. The Dental Access Portal aims to tackle “significant variation” between Health Board allocation of NHS dentist places, which reportedly brings […]
NHSE’s patient safety strategy for primary care shares digital commitments around culture and patient involvement
NHS England has published a strategy detailing the primary care implementation of the NHS patient safety strategy, noting the role of digital and data in areas such as automatically flagging patient safety issues to support reliability, and supporting clinical decision-making by digitally embedding diagnosis advice and safety netting. Looking firstly […]
App to support Parkinson’s patients launches new features
Parkinson’s ON, an app originally developed and self-funded by Parkinson’s patient Kuhan Pushparatnam to offer support to those living with the condition, has launched a series of new features after being picked up by Parkinson’s UK. Starting out with functionality to help Parkinson’s patients take their medications on time, track […]
NHS South West region opens early engagement for digital neighbourhoods
NHS England South West region has issued an early engagement notice for its digital neighbourhoods programme, looking to carry out an “evaluation piece”, asking interested suppliers to complete a questionnaire to help “inform the specification for any potential future opportunity”. The digital neighbourhoods programme is aimed at enhancing patient and […]
£250,000 fund for innovation and digital tools in wound care launches
The launch of a new £250,000 fund for innovation and digital tools in wound care has been announced, designed to improve outcomes for patients with chronic wounds by supporting widespread adoption of digital wound management in community nursing. Minuteful for Wound by Healthy.io invites applications from innovators in the wound […]
Monash IVF goes live with OX.DH’s digital patient onboarding platform
Monash IVF, a fertility service provider in Australia and South East Asia, has launched the digital patient onboarding platform powered by OX.DH’s assisted reproduction (OX.ar) technology, with the expectation that the platform will eliminate the need for around 50,000 paper forms annually. OX.DH, a health tech start-up with links to […]
Preventative health tech company Neko Health launches in London offering full body scan
Preventative health tech company Neko Health has launched in London with the opening of a Health Centre offering the ‘Neko Body Scan’, described as a “preventative health check for the future self” mapping millions of external and internal health data points on the body. Taking approximately 10 minutes, the scan […]
Apple AirPods Pro awaits marketing authorisation for hearing aid functionality
Apple has confirmed a pending marketing authorisation for the use of its AirPods Pro product as a hearing aid device, with a supporting hearing test feature offering users insight into their hearing health, a classification of their results, and recommendations. The Hearing Test functionality with AirPods Pro can turn the […]
