Academic Health Science Networks launch nationwide digital accelerators
34 SMEs have been selected for their potential to solve key challenges facing the health service, as part of the digital health accelerator programme.
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Theranos shareholders told the company will dissolve
In an email to shareholders, CEO David Taylor confirmed that the majority of Theranos’s remaining employees worked their last day on 31 August.
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Musgrove Park Hospital sets its sights on open source ePMA
The OPENeP medicines management system is built on Marand’s Think!EHR Platform, a vendor-free solution for managing electronic health record data.
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Hancock launches digital platform to give NHS staff a voice
‘TalkHealthandCare’ will seek staff views on issues such as technologies that cut out paperwork and improving shift patterns.
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Babylon goes to Canada with Telus Health partnership
The agreement with Telus Health will give users access to video consultations with a licensed Canadian healthcare provider, via a bespoke app.
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EMIS partners up with charity to provide better care for rough sleepers
Pathway partnered up with supplier EMIS Health to create the screening template, which is now available free of charge to health organisations using the EMIS Web clinical system in London.
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Natural Cycles Facebook ad banned by Advertising Standards Agency
ASA revealed it received three complaints which challenged the claim that Natural Cycles is a ‘highly accurate contraceptive app’.
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Hancock issues stern warning to health IT suppliers
Speaking at NHS Expo on 6 September, Matt Hancock said the interest of suppliers ‘are too often not aligned with the NHS’ interests’.
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Industry news in brief
September’s industry round up features news that Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership is looking towards the cloud to help make savings.
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NHS England chief executive hails new era of personalised medicine
Simon Stevens also said artificial intelligence will play a larger rols in the NHS, singling out DeepMind’s recent research with Moorfields Eye Hospital.
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