Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
12 November 2024
11:30 AM
Today’s Coffee Briefing covers data centre upgrades at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and a new Swiss partnership for Ada Health.
News
Buckinghamshire trust to receive £71.2m for digital infrastructure
12 November 2024
11:00 AM
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has received approval on funding from NHS England for £71.2m investment in digital infrastructure.
More than 9,000 letters to GPs delayed in Kent owing to IT glitch
12 November 2024
8:30 AM
More than 9,000 automatic letters from community teams to GPs in Kent were delayed by three weeks due to an IT error.
London startup partners with NHS Providers to boost digital prehab
11 November 2024
1:30 PM
London-based startup QuestPrehab has announced a partnership with NHS Providers to help NHS trusts learn about digital prehabilitation.
Universal Care Plan expanding to include diabetes and chronic pain
11 November 2024
11:00 AM
The Universal Care Plan, OneLondon’s shared care planning solution, is to expand to include diabetes and chronic pain.
UK ‘not maximising the benefits of health data’, says Sudlow review
11 November 2024
8:30 AM
The Sudlow review has called for barriers on access to NHS patient data to be removed so that it can be used to further medical advances.
Tang and Ferris to lead data and tech group for 10 year health plan
8 November 2024
1:30 PM
The government has announced that Ming Tang and Tim Ferris will lead the data and technology working group for its 10 year health plan.
NHS bosses meet with tech giants to discuss commercial patient database
12 December 2019
A secretive meeting, held on 24 October, saw discussions around collecting patient data to improve
Patients Know Best and Healthcare Communications join forces
12 December 2019
A partnership between Patients Know Best and Healthcare Communications will see ‘digital first’ interactions at
University Hospitals Birmingham live with new Carestream VNA
12 December 2019
UHB signed a five-year agreement with Carestream Health in July for a vendor neutral archive,
Privacy organisation raises concerns over NHS and Amazon deal
11 December 2019
The information could allow the multi-billion-pound tech company to make, advertise and sell their own
GP patients to be offered whole-genome screening in UK-first study
11 December 2019
A study will assess the benefits of screening for gene faults and will see people
