Digital health
Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire is inviting innovators with ambitious healthtech solutions to apply for the next cohort of its flagship accelerator programme, supporting businesses to develop, test and scale innovations within the NHS and wider healthcare system. The programme is free for successful applicants and offers a comprehensive package of support, including enhanced business development, [...]
By James Neilson, SVP of Global at OPSWAT Healthcare depends on speed, trust, and constant information sharing. Referrals, discharge summaries, medical images, test results, and patient-uploaded documents arrive continuously across multiple systems and networks to ensure services aren’t disrupted. Very few clinicians will think twice about opening any of the dozens of [...]
Cambric Systems, a supplier of healthcare patient data software solutions used in secondary and community-based healthcare settings across Scotland, has announced that its Morse solution has been selected by NHS Shetland. The Morse mobile Electronic Patient Record (EPR) has been chosen to support a wide range of community-based health services delivered in patients’ homes and [...]
By Johanna Kelly, chief nursing information officer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Clinicians are all too familiar with the daily frustrations of fragmented systems, multiple logins and passwords, and click-heavy workflows. As stress and burnout continue rising, especially in high-pressure environments like emergency medicine, the usability of Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) has never been [...]
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new 12 month pilot of CardMedic, a clinically validated app designed to transform communication with patients across any barrier – whether language, visual, hearing or cognitive impairment. The initiative, funded by the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Charity, aims to reduce health inequalities by [...]
Menotracker has emerged from stealth, claiming its data privacy tech prevents governments accessing users’ menopause data. The company has teamed up with privacy technology firm ConsentKeys to create what it calls the first women’s health app that will never store users’ personal data. The app is now available in 177 countries and 41 languages, offering [...]
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has further advanced its digital maturity by successfully going live with Altera Digital Health’s ePrescribing and Medicine Administration (ePMA). Disparate and paper-based workflows have been digitised and standardised across 56 inpatient wards and urgent care areas spanning the trust’s three hospital sites, significantly reducing variations in prescribing practice to enhance [...]
Patients at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are set to benefit from a new digital bedside service following a partnership with Airwave Healthcare, introducing integrated technology that supports entertainment, communication, and access to hospital services. The new bedside terminals are being introduced on the trust’s innovative and award-winning Concept Ward as part of [...]
The US ranks sixth for perimenopause knowledge, behind the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands, research by the Mayo Clinic and period tracker Flo has revealed. Perimenopause is the transition leading up to a woman’s last menstrual cycle and includes the 12 months afterwards, after which menopause is established as hormone levels change. It [...]
X-on Health’s Surgery Intellect digital scribe is set to become the UK market’s leading ambient voice technology (AVT) solution following IM1 assurance and approval to file clinical notes directly into electronic patient records. This dual achievement by the digital health communications provider makes Surgery Intellect, powered by TORTUS, the only digital scribe capable of directly [...]
