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Induction Healthcare to get a new zest for life with acquisition

19 May 2020

Induction Healthcare has announced it intends to acquire the cash and shares of health tech company Zesty Limited in a deal worth around £13million.

Digital Health Unplugged: May news team debrief

19 May 2020

Join Andrea Downey, Hannah Crouch and Jon Hoeksma as they look at the whether the app will be successful and if NHSX has taken the right approach.

Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’

19 May 2020

It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government committee.

Government roadmap hints at more use of tele-medicine and remote care

18 May 2020

The government will look for “innovative operating models” for the NHS and other health and care settings as the country recovers from coronavirus.

Allocate platform helps track live NHS absences to help during Covid-19

18 May 2020

A platform which tracks live absences in the NHS has been expanded to help the health service during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Applications open for fifth cohort of DigitalHealth.London Accelerator

18 May 2020

The DigitalHealth.London programme, now in its fifth year, aims to support start-ups looking to transform health and care, connecting them with NHS leaders.

Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’

15 May 2020

The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app based on self-reporting.