Government announces £500,000 to bolster healthcare cyber security
It comes as the National Cyber Security Centre identified a heightened cyber threat to the UK health sector during the pandemic.
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Digital immunity passports part of government’s plans to ramp up testing
Under the plans digital immunity passports will be used to allow people who have tested negative for the virus to return to work and travel.
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AI will ‘under deliver’ at first but ‘blow our minds’ in the future
Speaking at London Tech Week Ali Parsa said the NHS is doing “fantastic” work in the field of AI but must not be afraid to participant in new technologies.
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Scotland launches UKs second Covid-19 contact-tracing app
The Protect Scotland app is designed as an “extra tool” to support the manual contact-tracing already in place under NHS Scotland’s Test and Protect system.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app to be launched in England and Wales
The contact-tracing app offers QR code check-in capability, allows users to book a free test and has an isolation countdown timer.
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Mobile health apps news in brief
This month’s mobile apps round up features news that design company Sigma has partnered with app evaluation company ORCHA.
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‘Technical error’ left suppliers ‘omitted’ from remote monitoring framework
The framework is designed to expand access to remote monitoring services once Attend Anywhere’s contract expires in March 2021.
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Gould reveals lessons learned during development of contact-tracing app
Speaking at London Tech Week on 8 September Matthew Gould said NHSX “did what it was set up to do” during the development of the contact-tracing app.
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Government pledges £32m for transformative health technology projects
The projects range from an AI x-ray scanner to diagnose cancer more quickly and robotic muscles to assist those recovering from a stroke.
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Government announces £50m diagnostic products under National AI Lab
A range of AI tools that can accurately analyse breast cancer screening scans and assess emergency stroke patients will be tested and scaled.
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