Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) has announced the successful applicants for its 2024 Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme, with a total of 10 start-ups and SMEs from across the UK selected to benefit from specialist funding and support, including companies using AI, wearables and algorithms to improve health […]
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HTN International: exploring digital health in Canada, South Africa, Switzerland, Portugal and more
What is happening in health tech across the globe? Back in November, we launched HTN International, a website dedicated to health tech on a global scale. We share news, research, insights, interviews and more, with a view to keeping you updated on the health tech space – and ensuring that […]
Welsh Nursing Care Record upgraded to single national database
An upgrade to the Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) has seen eight separate databases replaced with a single national instance, in a move hoped to bring efficiencies in managing, updating and applying new features, as well as improvements in patient care, patient access, and access to information across NHS Wales. […]
Sciensus acquires patient app and physician support platform Vinehealth
Pharma services business Sciensus has acquired Vinehealth, a cancer-focused health tech business offering a patient app and physician support platform, in a move designed to expand Sciensus’s digital and patient support offering. Vinehealth was founded by former NHS physician Rayna Patel and data scientist Georgina Kirby, with the website sharing […]
Engagement invited on new draft primary care strategy launched in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB is inviting the public to have their say on its draft Primary Care Strategy, which has the aim of transforming general practice, community pharmacy, optometry and dentistry. The strategy tackles challenges facing primary care including high demand, reduced access to services, ageing populations, […]
GOSH joins consortium of children’s hospitals to collaborate on decentralised data ecosystem
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has announced that it is part of a consortium of six leading European children’s hospitals, who will be working together to advance research on children’s health, collaborating on data management to develop new therapies for children and support new technologies such as AI in healthcare […]
Digital-first provider Livi launches “all-in-one primary care solution”
Digital-first healthcare provider Livi has announced the launch of a new ‘virtual practice partner’, described as an “all-in-one primary care solution” combining clinical resources and appointment support with digital tools such as a patient app, websites, smart messaging and remote monitoring. Bryony Henderson, associate medical director at Livi, shares that […]
Headset and behaviour training app offered as depression treatment option in Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is offering a headset and behaviour training app as a treatment option for patients with depression, with the ‘Flow’ headset delivering transcranial direct current stimulation treatment and patients using the app to control the headset and monitor progress. The app contains training modules on topics […]
News in brief: data survey launched in Norfolk, remote monitoring in Bedfordshire, digital fair in the Midlands, and more
Here we share some of the health tech news that has caught our eye over the last few weeks. Survey launched in Norfolk and Waveney on data in health and care A new survey has been launched in Norfolk and Waveney to help identify how much people understand about data […]
NHS Supply Chain issues £500 million contract notice for MedTech dynamic purchasing system agreement
NHS Supply Chain has issued a £500 million contract notice for a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) Agreement to help bring MedTech products to market, focusing on offering a route to market for innovative products and enabling access to products and associated services that are “of an innovative nature” and “would […]
