A support app, which helps identify and prevent distressed behaviours in dementia patients, will launch in care homes as part of the Alzheimer’s Society business growth programme.
Up to 90% of people living with dementia,…
The NHS holds vast stores of data it cannot use or sell. The “sidestep” of synthesised data is the answer, write NHS trust colleagues Martin Farrier and David Chapman
Remember Care.data? Or perhaps like much…
(L to R) Haris Shuaib, chief executive at Newton’s Tree, Frazer Smythe, digital solution architect and integration lead at Ergéa, David Rolfe, chief executive at Ergéa UK and Ireland, Nish Afsar, UK clinical affairs…
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Personal health data from more than 485,000 women has been stolen after hackers accessed the IT systems of a cervical cancer screening programme in the Netherlands.
The incident occurred between 3 July and 6 July…
NHS England has announced that newly pregnant women can now self-refer online to get their first midwife appointments.
Mums-to-be can at more than three quarters of trusts in England can refer themselves directly to local…
A partnership between East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) and Excelerate Technology has enabled ambulance crews to consult stroke specialists via video in areas without reliable mobile coverage.
Poor signal in rural and…
NHS England has confirmed that nearly 400,000 people have used a prescription tracking feature in the NHS App in the first 10 weeks since its launch.
The ‘Amazon-style’ tracker, which was rolled out in the…
An interactive digital platform centred on supporting healthcare organisations to tackle health inequalities has been launched by the NHS Race and Health Observatory.
The free to access Health Action Resource Platform (HARP), which launched on…
Ultromics, a provider of AI-driven cardiology solutions, has raised $55 million (£41m) in Series C financing to scale its technology across the US.
Founded out of the University of Oxford, Ultromics offers the first FDA-cleared…
Ambulance crews use the new software with a patient in Kigali, Rwanda (Credit: University of Birmingham)
Ambulance technology developed in Rwanda by University of Birmingham experts working with a local software company could save…
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