Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth £275,000 to London-based Physitrack PLC for the provision of an exercise prescription software service. The platform is said to enable physiotherapists to create “customised home exercise programs” with “easy-to-follow” videos to promote adherence, pain tracking, and progress monitoring features. According […]
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Sussex Partnership organisational strategy highlights data, innovation, and digital technologies
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust shared its organisational strategy for 2025 – 2030 last week, setting out its vision, objectives and measures, as well noting the opportunities to utilise data, innovation and a digital-first approach. The trust opens with its vision to state “delivering the strategy will take time and […]
Government accepts 15 recommendations on the regulation of AI as a medical device
The UK government has published a response to a report from the Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) about the regulation of AI as a medical device (AIaMD), accepting all 15 of its recommendations, and offering insight into current work and next steps in this space. Highlighting that AIaMD has “advanced significantly […]
Healthcare AI scribe company, Heidi raises $16.6m and starts roll-out to 53 GP practices
Healthcare AI company, Heidi has raised $16.6m in its latest round of funding, to help with the development of their AI scribe, said to automate time-consuming note taking and document generation. Early this year, the company announced its ambient AI tech is to be introduced to 53 GP practices, following […]
Liverpool Combined Authority commits funding to children’s healthcare innovation
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has confirmed £4.16 million in innovation zone funding for children’s healthcare innovation at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The funding is supporting the development of a Paediatric Open Innovation Zone designed to develop, test and deploy technologies to tackle “some of the biggest […]
University Hospital Southampton NHS introduces digital outpatient web assistant to patient portal
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a digital outpatient web assistant, designed to “replicate a phone call as much as possible”, forming part of its My Medical Record, patient portal. The virtual assistant aims to “improve the patient journey”, offering a place for patients to “find […]
SBRI Healthcare and NIHR i4i launch readiness programme for women-led health innovations
SBRI Healthcare and NIHR i4i have launched a venture capital readiness programme, to support female founders to scale their innovations across health and social care. Offering a six-month programme designed for female founders to access the tools, networks, and knowledge required, the programme aims to support those tackling healthcare challenges with […]
Panel discusses cyber security best practices, assessing maturity, good practice…
We were joined for a recent HTN Now webinar focusing on sharing best practices around cyber security, by an expert panel including Neill Crump, digital strategy director at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust; Nasser Arif, cyber security manager at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) and Hillingdon Hospitals […]
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care 2025?
A recent poll on our LinkedIn page asked the question, what do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care – patient-facing digital tools, interoperability, funding to support innovation, or back office efficiencies? With 39 percent of the vote, patient-facing digital tools came out on top. Coming in […]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital deploys Nervecentre EPR
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts have introduced Nervecentre’s cloud–native EPR platform. Launched across six hospitals in February, as part of a phased roll-out, this phase focused on deploying mobile capabilities to the hospitals’ emergency departments and inpatient wards. The trusts report that […]
