Staff at Leeds Cancer Centre are celebrating the official opening of a new MRI Simulator which is set to revolutionise radiotherapy treatment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The high-definition, high-contrast images produced by MR Sim will enable patients to receive more precise, targeted treatments while reducing the risk of treatment related side-effects. The new […]
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHFT) has gone live with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA), as the next step in the trust’s five-year digital transformation journey. The Altera Digital Health solution was introduced as part of the trust’s Sunrise™ electronic patient record (EPR), also provided by Altera Digital Health. As of February 2023, the […]
America is facing a mental health crisis Bernie Sanders Young people are grappling with challenges that no generation in modern history has been forced to deal with. They need our help now This country faces a longstanding mental health crisis, exacerbated by the isolation, fears and uncertainties of the pandemic. This crisis affects all generations, […]
John Burt is CEO of Medherant – a West Midlands-based company developing innovative treatments using transdermal drug delivery technology. Formerly CEO of Abzena and Thiakis, John has many years’ experience of working with development stage companies. Health Tech World sat down with John to learn about Medherant’s innovative TEPI Patch and its potential applications in […]
Two years on from our post covering NHS website accessibility rankings back in 2021, we return to find out which NHS websites are in the top 10 and the lowest, based on usability, content, accessibility, marketing, mobile, social, speed, and legal compliance. The Silktide Index ranks websites for accessibility across a number of different categories […]
The deadline to enter the Health Tech Awards 2023, sponsored by CCube Solutions, is next week! The awards help to share and celebrate digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers that have made a difference – the deadline to enter is at midnight, 19 June 2023. Each year we have a fantastic group of judges supporting […]
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, part of the Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has published its “CDEI portfolio of AI assurance techniques”, detailing its portfolio of AI assurance approaches and how to use it. “The portfolio is useful for anybody involved in designing, developing, deploying or procuring AI enabled systems, and showcases examples of […]
The Theatres department at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) is benefitting from the purchase of two additional ultrasound scanners thanks to their Friends. The League of Friends have funded two new portable ultrasound scanners which will be used extensively by anaesthetists at the Oswestry-based hospital. The purchase of the specialist scanners […]
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