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Medics.Academy Chief Product Officer Dr Emma Cox has been nominated for an InspiringFifty UK Award – a list of the UK’s top inspiring women leaders in tech. Run by accelerateHER, The InspiringFifty Programme spotlights the work of women excelling in tech, with the aim of making female role models more visible and increase diversity in [...]
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is using a new solution to facilitate rapid and accurate recording and reporting of all cancer datasets using Royal College of Pathology (RCPath) proformas. The pathology department at the Trust is using PhoenixSoft’s COSD Companion, a pathology reporting software solution that meets the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) [...]
Over £1.1million has been awarded to support shielding and vulnerable people in North West London affected by COVID-19 in accessing digital health, care and community resources. CW+ and North West London ICS/STP have received £1,176,207 from NHS Charities Together (NHSCT) in support of digital inclusion, the need for which has been laid bare during the [...]
Analysis on the unfolding case of Elizabeth Holmes and her health tech venture Theranos by contributor John Bacon. Jury selection for the Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the blood-testing health-tech start-up Theranos, began this month for a trial expected to take several weeks. Holmes is facing nine charges of fraud with the potential for a 20-year [...]
The University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD) has partnered with Intouch with Health to reduce backlogged outpatient appointments – including launching a remote outpatient clinic in a department store. Technology supplied by the digital patient flow management specialist will play a key role in managing the data for patients from the Trust’s Royal Bournemouth, [...]
Digital healthcare provider Livi has announced the acquisition of agency VIX Digital, which specialises in designing digital solutions for the NHS. Livi has worked closely with VIX Digital for several years and this acquisition brings the agency’s tech experts in-house, further strengthening Livi’s industry-leading development team. VIX Digital CTO Tony Yates, who founded the company [...]
Researchers have made a major breakthrough which could lead to new approaches to cancer patient treatment. An international study has made an important discovery in understanding the biology of aggressive lymphoma which could lead to new approaches to therapy. Researchers identified the DDX3X gene on the X chromosome in lymphomagenesis and identified the homologous gene [...]
For patients with chronic liver disease, the onset of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) instantly alters the transplant question from ‘if’ to ‘when’. Around 60 to 70 per cent of patients with ACLF die within three months due to poor liver function and multiple organ failure. A timely liver transplant is the only way to save [...]
Use of an automated patient recruitment platform (ARP) could help researchers recruit patients significantly faster into clinical studies across diverse disease areas, helping researchers identify new treatments for diseases more quickly. Tech platform creator uMed reports that its cloud-based patient engagement technology is able to accelerate recruitment of patients to clinical studies from months to [...]
UK-based tech firm Insignia Medical Systems has been sold to global medical imaging business Intelerad. IMS, of Basingstoke, is a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) provider, with more than two billion images under management and over 250 sites using its services. Intelerad, which has headquarters in Canada and offices across the US, UK, Australia [...]
