Digital health

  • UCL partners with WHO on digital tools for health emergencies

    UCL partners with WHO on digital tools for health emergencies

    UCL has been designated a WHO collaborating centre for digital health and pandemic preparedness, the first such WHO centre dedicated to pandemics. Led by professor Patty Kostkova, the UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies has been named a World Health Organization collaborating centre for digital public health and pandemic preparedness. WHO collaborating centres [...]

  • WHO initiative aims to digitise health records across ASEAN nations

    WHO initiative aims to digitise health records across ASEAN nations

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a three-year ASEAN initiative for digital health wallets to replace paper health records with secure, interoperable digital versions. The programme, launched with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research in partnership with the Temasek Foundation, aims to give people trusted, portable access to essential health information while [...]

  • Herefordshire and Worcs NHS Trust reports five-day reduction in hospital stays following digital patient flow programme

    Herefordshire and Worcs NHS Trust reports five-day reduction in hospital stays following digital patient flow programme

    Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has reported improvements in patient flow following the first phase of a digital transformation programme using Alcidion’s Miya Precision platform. The programme is helping clinical teams coordinate patient discharge planning more effectively across seven community hospitals. The Trust reports that average patient length of stay reduced by [...]

  • Harris Health Alliance acquires eRedbook to enhance digital child health across the NHS

    Harris Health Alliance acquires eRedbook to enhance digital child health across the NHS

    Harris Health Alliance (HHA) has completed the acquisition of eRedbook, the UK’s most established digital parent held child health record. This is an asset purchase from Heathersoft, bringing the eRedbook, supporting technology and customer base into the HHA portfolio. eRedbook is a widely recognised digital platform, used to support the capture and sharing of key [...]

  • Altera Digital Health awarded EPR contracts by two NHS trusts

    Altera Digital Health awarded EPR contracts by two NHS trusts

    Altera Digital Health has been awarded 10-year contracts by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust to implement the Altera Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform. This major investment marks a significant milestone in both trusts’ digital transformation journeys and will support improvements to patient flow across Greater Manchester, aligning [...]

  • North East Lincs Council ‘builds futures’ with System C’s Early Years solution

    North East Lincs Council ‘builds futures’ with System C’s Early Years solution

    North East Lincolnshire Council has gone live with System C’s Education Case Management Early Years Module. This go-live marks the latest stage in the Council’s multi-year programme to modernise education and children’s services operations. North East Lincolnshire Council is an existing user of System C’s Children’s Case Management, Early Help Case Management and wider Education [...]

  • Gifthealth delivers off-the-shelf solution to deliver MFN pricing

    Gifthealth delivers off-the-shelf solution to deliver MFN pricing

    Direct-to-patient programs ready to stand up in as little as 21 days. Gifthealth, the patient access solution that unifies the prescription journey from provider to patient, is deploying direct-to-patient (DTP) programmes to deliver MFN pricing to consumers. Gifthealth is the nation’s largest DTP partner for manufacturers, dispensing more than 90 per cent of current US [...]

  • NHS and pharma launch £10 million respiratory care programme

    NHS and pharma launch £10 million respiratory care programme

    The NHS has joined forces with four major pharmaceutical companies in a new programme aimed at improving care for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Respiratory Transformation Partnership (RTP) brings together NHS England, the Office for Life Sciences, 15 health innovation networks and AstraZeneca, Chiesi, GSK and Sanofi in a co-funded [...]

  • Precision liver study completes 1-year recruitment of nearly 1,000 participants using existing NHS data

    Precision liver study completes 1-year recruitment of nearly 1,000 participants using existing NHS data

    Predictive Health Intelligence (PHI) and Sano Genetics have announced the completion of recruitment into the LiveWell study, with 996 participants enrolled from a single NHS site in less than a year. Delivered in partnership with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which supported clinical oversight and research delivery, and Tawazun Health, and supported by Innovate UK, the [...]

  • Digital health services failing those with greatest needs, WHO finds

    Digital health services failing those with greatest needs, WHO finds

    Digital health services are still failing people with the greatest health needs, with language, access and skills barriers limiting use, a World Health Organization (WHO) review has found. A scoping review led by WHO/Europe and Public Health Wales found that people with greater health needs and language barriers still struggle to use digital health services [...]