Digital health
By Mina Vracarevic, editor at Kristina & Co - a narrative strategy studio for founders While clinical necessity remains the baseline requirement for advanced weight management, affordability has become the true dividing line for access. A new initiative is fighting back against the pricing crisis It is one of the most frustrating paradoxes in modern [...]
A South Carolina fund will back health tech startups working to improve rural health access in the state. The Tech Catalyst Fund will provide funding to technology startups focused on improving rural health access. According to the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), the fund is one of five initiatives within South Carolina’s Rural Health Transformation [...]
NHS data sharing could cut 20,000 A&E visits a year and save £20m annually, the government has claimed. Ministers say the NHS modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to securely share patient information. The bill, which is due to receive its second reading on Monday, also sets out plans to abolish NHS [...]
UNITE has named the first three digital health projects selected to support cross-border deployment in Europe. The Regional Innovation Valley project UNITE, coordinated by 28DIGITAL in Belgium and co-funded under Horizon Europe, has selected CARDIO-HUB, NEODATA+ and RAD-TRACK EU as its first joint interregional projects. The initiative said the projects mark a milestone in building [...]
By Andy Kinnear, former NHS CIO and current Independent Consultant As the NHS gains increased visibility into digital maturity and user experience, DMA findings signal where progress is needed. To misquote the incredible author George Orwell ‘Not all blogs are created personal, some are more personal than others’. This one very much falls into the [...]
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has acquired CareBrain, a "technology transformation platform" for the care sector. QCS is a digital provider of compliance, care management and learning for the care sector, suporting over 335,000 care providers and staff across more than 7,200 care locations. Nikki Walker, CEO at QCS, said: “CareBrain has developed an [...]
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with digital mental health company Psyomics to introduce a new digital platform designed to support improved access by reducing pressure on clinicians, whilst integrating seamlessly with the Trusts clinical systems. The Trust has procured Psyomics’ beseen Adult platform to support clinical and administrative efficiency within its Community Mental [...]
Nourish has secured US$100m funding to scale its nutrition-first care platform for chronic disease and metabolic health. The Series C round brings the company’s total funding to US$215m and values it at US$1.75bn. Nourish combines registered dietitians with AI-powered care agents to tackle chronic disease and improve long-term outcomes. Co-founder Aidan Dewar said: [...]
The NHS modernation bill, brought forward last week, would create a single patient record in England and cut bureaucracy, with ministers saying it would support safer and faster care. The single patient record would mean all NHS providers, including hospitals and GPs, would have to share data so the right doctors, nurses and specialists across [...]
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) and Altera Digital Health have unveiled the results of a digital transformation that has optimised the Acute Abdomen Pathway. By embedding National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) guidance into WWL's Altera Sunrise Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform, the trust has achieved significant improvements in patient outcomes, [...]
