Digital health
A National Digital Health Innovation Lab will open at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore, Ireland. The new lab will be used as an innovation centre for co-designing and iterating novel digital solutions to improve care outcomes, reduce cost, improve patient/clinician experience and improve quality of life. Catriona McDonald, general manager of the Midland Regional Hospital [...]
Trusts and health boards with Hospedia bedside entertainment and communications units will be able to give patients free access to the programmes they love on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day WiFi SPARK will celebrate the festive season by offering NHS patients in beds with Hospedia entertainment and communication units three days of [...]
Figures from Rockhealth show that digital health investment grew by almost 50 per cent in the first three quarters of 2021 compared to the previous year. Here we report on some of the biggest deals of the year so far. It has been a record-breaking year for digital health investment. According to Rockhealth, 2021 has [...]
Digitising hospitals was the focus of NHS IT policy for twenty years. The job is still unfinished: so what are the options for trusts, and the integrated care systems that are planned to take over health tech strategy and funding next April? The Highland Marketing advisory board asked three leading chief information officers for their [...]
A group of local authority partners will be supported by the Local Government Association (LGA) and transformation agency Rethink Partners to strengthen digital capability in local government. The programme will support 11 local councils to embrace care technology by adopting digital tools and solutions in adult social care. A spokesperson for Rethink Partners said councils [...]
DigitalHealth.London and Centric Health TV are working together to share digital health stories via video, to support the spread of health tech innovations. DigitalHealth.London was launched in 2016 with the aim of creating an active digital health market in London by removing some of the challenges that were holding innovators back. It connects NHS staff, digital health companies and academics, and equips them to improve the [...]
Virtual behavioural healthcare company Talkspace has announced the resignation of its president and COO Mark Hirschhorn, effective immediately. A spokesperson for Talkspace said the resignation comes following an internal review of Mr. Hirschhorn’s conduct in connection with a company offsite that took place late last week. The company's executive team will assume Mr. Hirschhorn’s responsibilities, the [...]
UK health bosses have announced plans to merge NHSX and NHS Digital into NHS England and Improvements (NHSE/I). Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid said the merger will improve co-operation between the key digital bodies of the NHS by bringing them under one roof for the first time. This comes following a recommendation by [...]
Cyber security is a continuing concern in healthcare, with threats on the rise. Sectra’s Chris Scarisbrick considers the landscape, how far cloud adoption can help the NHS, and how functions like procurement are starting to think differently. The coronavirus pandemic has led many people in healthcare to think differently about emergency resilience. But what will [...]
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) and the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) have announced a collaboration to accelerate digital innovation and propel Ireland’s potential as a European digital leader. The collaboration is expected to bring mutual benefits to the health systems in both the UK and Ireland and will involve the exploration of opportunities [...]
