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Altera Digital Health has been awarded 10-year contracts by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust to implement the Altera Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform. This major investment marks a significant milestone in both trusts’ digital transformation journeys and will support improvements to patient flow across Greater Manchester, aligning [...]
Scotland has become the first part of the UK to test newborn babies for SMA, a rare genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness. The condition was recently highlighted by singer Jesy Nelson, formerly of Little Mix, whose twin baby daughters have been diagnosed with SMA. Babies can be identified as having SMA [...]
North East Lincolnshire Council has gone live with System C’s Education Case Management Early Years Module. This go-live marks the latest stage in the Council’s multi-year programme to modernise education and children’s services operations. North East Lincolnshire Council is an existing user of System C’s Children’s Case Management, Early Help Case Management and wider Education [...]
Genentech antibody emugrobart has failed in two rare diseases, raising questions over whether it can preserve muscle in ongoing obesity trials. Roche’s Bay Area subsidiary disclosed the discontinued programmes in separate 19 March letters to the patient communities for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). For both conditions, Genentech said it had [...]
Phoenix Hospital Group has announced the launch of its new Prostate MRI Cancer Screening Service, now available at its Harley Street Health District hospital in central London and at Phoenix Chelmsford Hospital in Essex. The service has been introduced to encourage men to take a proactive approach to their wellbeing. The Group also offers prostate [...]
Direct-to-patient programs ready to stand up in as little as 21 days. Gifthealth, the patient access solution that unifies the prescription journey from provider to patient, is deploying direct-to-patient (DTP) programmes to deliver MFN pricing to consumers. Gifthealth is the nation’s largest DTP partner for manufacturers, dispensing more than 90 per cent of current US [...]
The NHS has joined forces with four major pharmaceutical companies in a new programme aimed at improving care for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Respiratory Transformation Partnership (RTP) brings together NHS England, the Office for Life Sciences, 15 health innovation networks and AstraZeneca, Chiesi, GSK and Sanofi in a co-funded [...]
Health Lean Analytics has secured more than €2.1m in funding, as the Barcelona-based company looks to expand its hospital data and AI platform. The transaction combines private capital and public funding, with Novanta, a US-listed public company, acting as a technology and strategic partner. HLA plans to use Novanta's manufacturing and medical technology expertise, along [...]
A new report by Clue has revealed the ‘Cost of Bleeding’ - a deep dive into the true cost of menstruation and the impact of related expenses adding up year after year. The consumer research reveals that, on average, respondents spend an estimated £41 on their cycle each month, amounting to an astounding £20,359 across [...]
In this episode of the Health Tech World Podcast, host Gordon speaks with Kathleen van Vlierberghe, Vice President for EMEA Peripheral Intervention at Boston Scientific, about how kidney cancer care in the UK is evolving. Together, they explore the impact of the first-ever NICE kidney cancer guidelines, why minimally invasive treatments like cryoablation remain underused [...]
