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Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) has implemented the Healthcare Communications Patient Engagement Portal across its entire outpatient service, with 60 per cent of eligible patients already using the platform. The patient portal delivers digital appointment letters to patients, providing immediate cost-saving benefits from paper, printing and postage. The new platform is also [...]
Read our special report on how a facility in The Tees Valley, North East England, is helping to drive biotech innovation. Giving biotech the space to thrive Health Tech World reports from the groundbreaking facilities at The Wilton Centre in the Tees Valley Enter</a > keywords
Citizens and expats based in Dubai can now access the Middle East’s first digital health library, created through a groundbreaking new partnership. The Osteopathic Health Centre, Dubai, is working with ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps), the world’s largest app review and distribution company, to create the library. Through a [...]
An online consultation system is being rolled out across 36 GP practices in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG to help handle large volumes of patient enquiries more efficiently. The move follows a successful pilot of PATCHS at three practices – Littleborough Health Centre, Argyle Street Medical Centre and Peterloo Medical Centre – which has seen patients triaged to the most appropriate [...]
Data and how it is managed in the NHS is the subject of a new event which is bringing together professionals from across the healthcare sector. The Convenzis Virtual Data Conference: The Foundation for Integrated Care will be held on Thursday, July 1, and addresses one of the biggest challenges for the NHS in how [...]
Swedish healthtech business Doctrin has raised €13million to fuel its ongoing expansion. The round is led by existing investors HealthCap, Swedbank Robur and Capio. Norron Asset Management, with a special focus on investments for a sustainable society, is added as one of the major new investors. The company is currently active in Sweden, the UK, Czech [...]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been selected to join the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, which nurtures healthcare innovators from across the country and helps them gain the commercial skills, knowledge and experience to make their ideas reality. The Trust will be the only London NHS hospital partnering with the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, which [...]
First BfArM Listed COVID-19 Pool Test to be approved by the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI). Test can screen up to five individuals suspected of COVID-19 or up to 5 asymptomatic individuals. LumiraDx, a next-generation point of care (POC) diagnostics testing company, has announced the official commercial launch of its SARS-CoV-2 Ag Pool Test in Europe. The test supports [...]
Healthtech business ONWARD has secured its third Breakthrough Device Designation status as it continues towards its goal of commercialising its technology which could allow paralysed patients to walk again. The venture secured Breakthrough Device Designation for its ARC-IM platform for blood pressure and trunk control in people with spinal cord injury. It is the third [...]
Following six months of specialist training, Mr Denis Tsepov has successfully led 27 complex robotic operations for severe endometriosis. He spoke to Health Tech World about the future of robotics in surgery The private medical provider HCA Healthcare UK, the largest provider of privately funded healthcare, has become the first hospital group in the [...]
