Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
15 October 2024
Today’s Coffee Time Briefing covers a 73% reduction in GP waiting times in New Malden through the use of an AI triage system.
News
Cornerstone VR to host virtual reality training for social workers
15 October 2024
Cornerstone VR has partnered with the University of Birmingham and Sandwell Children’s Trust to host virtual training for social workers.
Liverpool University Hospitals to trial Melo app for dementia care
15 October 2024
Liverpool University Hospitals is trialling a platform that aims to better support the care patients with dementia.
LungHealth software to launch at 150 GP practices in Manchester
14 October 2024
Software is being rolled out to 150 GP practices across Greater Manchester with the aim of supporting better adult asthma and COPD care.
£4.2m MedTech accelerator launches to support UK SMEs
14 October 2024
A £4.2m MedTech accelerator programme has been launched to provide 140 UK SMEs with grants to tackle key regulatory challenges.
Trust to file ‘robust defence’ against EPR procurement court claim
14 October 2024
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust to file ‘robust defence’ against a claim it broke procurement law over an EPR contract.
Somerset ICB integrates shared care record with Dorset GP data
11 October 2024
Clinicians at Yeovil Hospital can now access Dorset patients’ GP data through Somerset’s shared care record.
Royal Free to study AI tool for breast cancer screening
4 November 2021
Royal Free is to carry out a retrospective study to determine if AI could potentially
TeleTracking joins Digital Healthcare Council to boost patient tracking
3 November 2021
Through joining the Digital Healthcare Council TeleTracking hopes to help deliver a “digitally-led, patient-centric NHS”.
New standard to improve medicines information sharing set to launch
3 November 2021
It is hoped a standardised approach to sharing medicines information will reduce medicines related errors
Cera to launch 15 digital healthcare hubs across UK
3 November 2021
Cera is launching 15 new digital healthcare hubs which will support older and vulnerable people
NHS saves more than 2 million hours using Microsoft Teams
2 November 2021
In the first six months Microsoft Teams was used across the health service it replaced
