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Posted: 08 january 2022

Decoding the Neural Control of the Heart with BIOS Technology

BIOS is unlocking the potential of the nervous system to treat some of humanity’s most pressing chronic diseases, using neural read-write technology. Discover how in their latest whitepaper here.

Wales awards £2 million tender for digital clinical assessments and interventions

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has announced the intention to award a £2 million contract to Healois, an online provider of specialist child and young person’s mental health services. The body is to award the contract for CAMHS clinical assessments and interventions via the company’s digital platform, to help increase capacity in the short term and improve access to services. Funding has been made available to support the digital service up to 31 March 2022, with an extension to be reviewed. The health board said in the contract notice it required a digital platform for referrals to be easily shared, to provide service user monitoring metrics and allow for clinical session information to be shared to the health board electronic patient record. Healios will provide services seven-days a week, 8am – 9pm, processing referrals within seven days of receipt. The requirements also included the ability to “deliver mental health assessments in line with the Mental Health Measure (2010) across primary mental health and specialist CAMHS services”. The notice highlighted: “Healios are fully aware of the service operating model and have successfully mirrored that in their delivery of services to our patient group. Similarly, they have a working knowledge of all our policies and procedures, including demonstrating strong adherence and collaborative working in regard to safeguarding procedures. Based on the information outlined in this notice, the health board is applying a 10 day standstill period prior to awarding the contract.” The contact also required the software tool to provide the “ability to produce real time performance reports such as number of interventions completed, safeguarding or risk incidence, achievement of outcomes” and to “mirror core services in the management of DNAs and communication of these”. In related news on the topic, HTN recently reported on Dorset CAMHS offering a new online approach to tackle teenage depression and an all-in-one mental health app launched at Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT.

Sleep experts have weighed in to explain why the early hours of the morning put our minds into overdrive

In a new article published by Newsweek, Big Health Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Colin A. Espie weighs in to explain why the early hours of the morning put our minds into overdrive and the importance of behavioral therapy techniques to…

Innovations in focus: all 35 winners of NHSX’s new Adoption Fund

HTN recently covered the announcement of NHSX’s new Adoption Fund winners. The 35 successful innovations, and the teams behind them, will each receive a share of the £6.5 million funding pot. Spread out across five areas – gastroenterology, musculoskeletal, perioperative, cardiology and cardiac surgery pathways, and digital inclusion – the innovations are expected to support priorities around elective recovery and have the potential for a rapid roll-out across the NHS. Expert panels comprised of charities, clinicians and researchers, chose the winners from 138 applicants. And then there were 35 – but what are the innovations that topped the shortlist, and which could be coming to a hospital or a clinic near you, soon? From remote care, self-management models, and targeted pilots, through to ways to empower digital maternity services, a digital exclusion mapping tool, video rehab, and AI triaged health coaching, there’s a feast of imaginative ideas and insights for harnessing technology. So, HTN decided to take a closer look at the winning entries…

How Vyasa’s Data Fabric is Revolutionizing Healthcare and Life Science Data Management

By Teresa Murray, freelance writer for HealthTech and Giant Health Conference writer Dark data is a major challenge facing organizations today. Dark data, is unstructured data lying in storage silos that are difficult to access. Think PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations,…

The five-minute test that can tell if you’re on the road to dementia

The five-minute test that can tell if you’re on the road to #dementia was developed by Cognetivity Neurosciences Ltd. Brain deterioration can begin in our forties. Now there’s a new AI test, developed in Britain, that can detect it. Read more here.

46 suppliers selected for £5bn NHS digital documents framework

Suppliers have been named as part of a £5 billion framework, which is led by NHS London Procurement Partnership and focuses on digital document solutions and storage. The four-year Digital Documents Solutions framework includes a range of suppliers to cover the scope of digital solutions, and associated hardware or software. The specific areas include: internal print, external print, digital mail room, scanning, document storage, electronic document record management solutions, digital dictation and workflow. In the contract announcement, the stated aim is to “develop a Digital Document Solutions framework that compliantly allows for both innovation of products within the lifetime of the framework and a comprehensive direct award mechanism for all framework providers.” The framework has been formed to support NHS trusts, foundation trusts, clinical commissioning groups, GP federations and other health and social care providers within the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Although the framework is not split into ‘lots’, there are nine solution areas highlighted, including: patient administration, electronic health and care records, pathology, radiology, pharmacy; artificial intelligence and automation, patient support, specialist clinical systems, and shared care record systems. The suppliers listed in the contract include: Restore, CFH Docmail, Nuance Communications Ireland, Bluewire Technologies, Printing, Conduent, Hyland Software, Gateway Bureau Services, Cleardata, Swisspost Solutions, Asl, Mba Group, Hugh Symons Information Management, Kyocera Document Solutions, Print Search, 3M Mmodal, Apogee Corporation, Lgdavis, Corona Corporate Solutions, Canon, NHS Business Services Authority, Document Services, Continuous Dataprint, Synertec, Immj Systems, Harlow Printing, HH Global, Ricoh, Capita Business Services, PSL Print Management, Civica, Ratcliff & Roper Printers ,Konica Minolta Business Solutions,nCSP, Vision, Altodigital Networks, CCube Solutions, HP, G2 Speech, Bramble Hub, Mountain, Xerox, Exela Technologies, Crown Records Management.

Ayming’s third annual International Innovation Barometer (IIB)

Learn the proven tactics that the world’s most innovative leaders are using to succeed. Ayming’s third annual International Innovation Barometer (IIB) tells a story of increasing complexity, set against the backdrop of the global pandemic. Click here to download your…

Vine Health raises £4.1 million

Vinehealth, an application to support quality of life and outcomes of cancer patients, has raised £4.1 million in its latest funding round, led by Talis Capital. The app provides the functionality for patients to digitally track their symptoms and side effects, with an aim to help them manage their care and improve communication with carers.

The Computer-Aided Surgery Innovation Landscape: GJE 2021 Update

Advances across computer technologies are increasingly being harnessed in the next generation of medical technologies, shifting the focus of the traditional #MedTech sector. Jack Severs, Elizabeth Capel, & Joe McCartney Gill Jennings & Every LLP, explore this industry expansion. Read more here.

A novel machine learning algorithm for patient stratification of longitudinal real world data using clinical endpoints

Using de-identified and anonymised longitudinal patient data from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sensyne Health’s data science team has developed a novel algorithm to discover sub-groups of patients who share both a similar medical history and future clinical endpoints.…

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS embarks on new infrastructure

The University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has picked services from NTT DATA UK to modernise its infrastructure. The trust will adopt the company’s ‘Device as a Service’ (DaaS) approach, hoped to speed-up the time it takes staff to login to systems, and provide single sign-on and virtual desktop solutions. NTT Data UK is delivering the programme in phases, the first to provide the ‘underpinning infrastructure’ and to introduce 6,000 new devices. The project also includes image creation and deployment, physical assessments and consultancy, deployment and connection of the new technology, removal of the trust’s old equipment, asset management, and ongoing business-as-usual support. The company said: “The deployment of virtual desktops also significantly streamlines the trust’s hardware needs. The new infrastructure supports 500-600 simultaneous virtual desktops, allowing for the use of flexible ‘zero client’ hardware with super-fast logins, improving agility and resilience of the organisation.” Andy Carruthers, CIO at UHL, said: “The hospital is a 24/7 organisation, with patient care its focus. So, refreshing IT is like changing the engines on an aeroplane while it’s still flying. “A Device as a Service model allows us to smooth the financing over the years of the contract rather than having a spike in investment every time we need to refresh equipment across the trust. As a result, the trust could focus on maintaining the highest levels of performance and security with its tech in the future, with or without having to make do with aging platforms.” Earlier in the year, HTN reported on the trust’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration go live, speaking with Gang Xu, Consultant Nephrologist and Graeme Hall, Chief Pharmacist, you can read the interview here.

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