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A summit bringing together MPs, industry, clinicians and patient groups has set out the urgent need for tech solutions to medication errors - which occur an estimated 237 million times a year in England alone. Tech group Omnicell UK & Ireland hosted a health summit to correspond with World Patient Safety Day, to discuss the impact of medication errors [...]
A consortium of NHS trusts around the south coast of England has signed its second deal this year with imaging technology provider Sectra, in a move that is expected to advance how hospitals share and access important diagnostic imaging. A new shared multimedia archive will also allow the trusts to accelerate ambitions for initiatives including [...]
COVID-19 has disrupted markets and many manufacturers will be forced to create new opportunities outside their established sectors. Here Alphasonics' managing director David Jones explains why ideas that cross boundaries can not only strengthen the supplier but its customers, too. TV Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick has been a vehement advocate of an increased exchange of knowledge between [...]
Clinical systems supplier EMIS has given researchers at the University of Oxford first access to its new clinical data and analytics product to help in the ongoing fight against the coronavirus. Built on the cloud-based EMIS-X platform, the new EMIS-X Analytics technology is currently being used in a number of academic studies relating to COVID-19. The [...]
Crisis management advice from Ramon Pinero, vice president of services at BlackBerry AtHoc. Technology is changing the way healthcare is delivered, from hospital staff coordination to clinical collaboration and first responder readiness. According to NHS England there was a total workforce of more than 1 million employees across 223 trusts in the UK last year. [...]
Smart tech firm Alcidion believes its Miya Precision platform will alleviate the pressure faced by busy healthcare professionals and help to orchestrate digital strategies across regions, as HT World reports. Miya Precision has been labelled as the ‘very first smart clinical asset for the NHS’ and aims to provide hospitals and regions with a means to move beyond [...]
A UK company has developed a compact device that that straps around the knee with the ability to increase blood flow in bed-bound patients, reducing the risk of blood clots and preventing swelling. Placed on the fibula in the knee, the Geko device looks very similar to a wristwatch. When the device is turned on, [...]
A virtual healthcare provider aiming to reimagine the traditional outpatient system, has announced a £10m funding round led by private investment firm Nickleby Capital. Medefer, founded by NHS consultant Dr Bahman Nedjat-Shokouhi, says the growth funding will be used to invest in people and technology to service new contracts, enable new product development and ensure [...]
A new platform dubbed the ‘TrustPilot for medication’ has launched; enabling patients to share real world experiences of their medicines. DrugsDisclosed.com is a review platform that offers patients a way to share and compare their experiences with others using the same medications. The site collates data from over 352,044 patient medication reviews from the associated DrugStars [...]
French company AZmed aims to expand into the UK market through a new partnership with connected healthcare specialist Wellbeing Software. Through the collaboration, AZmed’s Rayvolve AI solution will be offered to hospitals and NHS Trusts allowing for the reduction of image interpretation time and medical errors when investigating bone lesions. Rayvolve is a computer-aided diagnosis tool [...]
