Sweden’s largest university hospital opted for a new healthcare model based on open data, with an openEHR digital health platform as the core. The hospital has chosen the Better digital health platform and its low-code development tools, which will be delivered by Tietoevry. The hospital set its openEHR strategy years ago. The target vision for […]
Northampton General Hospital (NGH) has signed a 10-year contract with Nervecentre for the deployment of its cloud-based EPR, with frontline digitisation funding allocated by NHS England. Other trusts in the vicinity are working with Nervecentre include Nottingham University Hospitals, Chesterfield Royal Hospital and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, with NGH noting that use of […]
NHS England has released guidance highlighting principles around the automation of test result release in patient engagement portals, along with requirements around portal functionality. As per the principles, all test results should be released to an individual via digital means when they have signed up to a patient engagement portal or the NHS App, and […]
Professor Tara Rampal, founder of telehealth firm QuestPrehab, on the significance of its new landmark NHS liver transplant trial. Increasingly the number of patients with frailty, sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass and strength), complex comorbidities and advanced age are being offered major surgical interventions. This leaves them vulnerable to complications, which often means unplanned hospital […]
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) is pleased to confirm it has formally exited the Maternity Safety Support Programme (MSSP) following significant improvements made to maternity services across the Trust. Following improvements made across its services, the Trust received the view of the National Quality Performance Committee at NHS England, as well as the Maternity Improvement […]
Cyber attacks pose the greatest technology-related risk within the life sciences industry, according to a survey of senior digital leaders working for major businesses in the sector – with industrial espionage posing an even greater threat than attacks motivated by financial theft or extortion. The findings are among those set out in a new report […]
Icelandic firm Sidekick Health is on a mission to harness digital health advances to enable personalised care at scale, as HT World reports. In healthcare today, many patients are treated with a one-size fits-all approach and treatment is most often given after the fact rather than being preventative. However, a significant amount of patients live […]
As one of the physicians who recently expressed concern about President Joe Biden’s health and his likelihood of significant decline over the next four and a half years, I was relieved when he ended his reelection campaign—and also overwhelmingly sad. In essence, as people keep saying, he had his car keys and driver’s license taken […]
On this, extra-dense episode of Quick Charge, we cover Tesla’s Q2 earnings call, Elon Musk talks cheap Tesla cars and cheaper 4680 batteries while promising to finally deliver on that new Roadster from 2017. While Tesla pushes back its Robotaxi launch, Google is powering ahead, beting $5 billion on Waymo’s expansion in to Texas. Plus, […]
Representation of cryptocurrency and Gayscale logo displayed on a phone screen. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images For crypto firm Grayscale, it’s deja vu in the ETF market. On Tuesday, the first spot ether exchange-traded funds hit the U.S. The ETFs will invest directly in ether, the cryptocurrency used in the Ethereum network, allowing […]
