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Rizwan Malik, divisional medical director of Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and managing director of South Manchester Radiology, joins the expert group that advises the dedicated health tech agency and its clients. Leading radiologist Rizwan Malik has joined Highland Marketing’s advisory board of NHS IT and health tech industry leaders. The divisional medical director of Bolton [...]
Ordr, a specialist in security for enterprise IoT and unmanaged devices, has been awarded a contract to provide its services for the University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). UHS, in partnership with reseller SmartGate Group, has deployed Ordr’s systems Control Engine (SCE), which discovers and secures every connected device, including Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), [...]
UK cloud telephony specialist X-on is supporting regional networks of GP practices to manage COVID-19 vaccination programmes with a contact system for patient booking. X-on has developed a softphone version of its cloud-based Surgery Connect healthcare phone system to enable primary care networks to provide patients with a single dedicated number and support process for [...]
Recently released guidance has called for the scaling up of COVID Virtual Wards (CVWs) across the UK to relieve the pressure on hospital beds. HT World spoke to the founder of Luscii, a Dutch-developed home healthcare monitoring app, about the benefits and future of virtual wards. The NHS has recommended that all integrated care systems (ICSs) immediately establish CVWs to [...]
A major international research collaboration is developing the next generation of surgical robots. Researchers from King’s College London School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences are part of Functionally Accurate Robotic Surgery (FAROS), which is developing surgical robots that access a range of sensing capabilities to master complex surgical tasks autonomously. Researchers say these robots [...]
A team involving UCL researchers have used electrical pulses to help suppress the tremors typically found in conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. In a paper published in Nature Communications, the scientists reported their new way of suppressing the brain waves underpinning tremors, without the need for invasive techniques. Dr Sebastian Schreglmann, joint first author of the paper, [...]
Medica, which provides more than a million radiology reports each year to help NHS hospitals deliver timely diagnoses and effective care for patients, has announced it will deploy technology from medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra. More than 450 radiologists and reporting radiographers who work with the teleradiology provider will be supported by a [...]
The UK Government has announced a £7.5m funding package to support digital shift scheduling across 38 NHS trusts. The investment is part of a £26m national fund to have all NHS doctors, nurses and other clinical staff on e-rostering systems by 2021. E-rostering allows clinicians to select shifts digitally, designed to provide them with more flexibility [...]
An AI imaging database is set to improve the diagnosis of patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms. NHSX, a unit tasked with driving the digital transformation of care in the NHS, has brought together over 40,000 CT scans, MRIs and X-rays from more than 10,000 patients across the UK during the course of the pandemic. Access [...]
Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have shown that whole body magnetic resonance imaging (WBMRI) detects myeloma in more patients. In a study published today in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, researchers looked at 46 patients with suspected myeloma, a debilitating bone marrow cancer which sees 140,000 new cases each [...]
