Rapid cancer diagnosis centres to be introduced at 10 NHS hospitals
New rapid diagnostic and assessment centres for cancer are being set up in England as part of efforts to catch and diagnose the disease more quickly.
Infrastructure 4
Electronic Prescription Service to be pushed out nationally across urgent care
Use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is being rolled out nationally across urgent care settings following a successful pilot.
Clinical Software 9
Manchester science centre awards £100,000 to local healthcare initiatives
Health Innovation Manchester has awarded almost £100,000 in funding to three local organisations developing digital healthcare solutions aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of citizens.
Digital Patient 1
UK can be ‘world leader in AI’ if NHS data can be tapped
The parliamentary under secretary for the Department of Health and Social Care has suggested the UK could be a world leader in AI research by applying machine learning to patient data sets.
AI and Analytics 1
Why Netflix and Amazon might offer a glimpse at our future healthcare ecosystems
Apple’s play into the healthcare ecosystem could open up new models of healthcare delivery, the resemblance of which may not be million miles from today’s most popular digital services.
AI and Analytics
Cyber security news round-up
Digital Health’s latest cyber security round-up looks at industry news from the healthcare world and beyond, including research suggesting that Britain is days away from ‘anarchy’ and details of a cyber-attack on National Lottery owners, Camelot.
Cyber Security
MyCareCentric Epilepsy claims £250m saving to be had through wider roll-out
Pilots of a technology programme aimed delivering better care to people with epilepsy have suggested the NHS could save £250 million a year in treatment costs by rolling out the solution more widely.
Digital Patient
Patient death from hacked medical devices plausible, says top Kaspersky security researcher
A leading cyber security analyst at Kaspersky Lab has warned there is a viable danger of hacked medical devices resulting in patient deaths.
Cyber Security
Leaders discuss interoperability pain points at Digital Health Leadership Summit
Technical leaders from across the healthcare sector gathered to discuss how the NHS might begin to untangle interoperability challenges at Digital Health’s Leadership Summit this month.
Interoperability 1
The CIO interview: Andy Vernon, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Andy Vernon, chief information officer at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, tells us why he’d like to travel back in time to meet a bongo-playing Nobel Prize winner in this week’s CIO interview.
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