WEEKLY NEWS RECAP
Health Tech News
Health tech news, features, channels, awards, live sessions, podcast, interviews and trends.
Health Level Seven International (HL7) has published guidance on the artificial intelligence and machine learning data lifecycle, intended as an “informative document” to help developers in promoting the use of of standards to “improve the trust and quality of interoperable data used in AI models”.
The National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) has published a prior information notice highlighting plans to develop an external assessment group framework, by commissioning groups capable of providing a range of health technology assessment services to support its technology evaluation programmes.
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?Following the publication of?the report from Lord Darzi?exploring the state of the NHS, HTN sought comments and reactions from a range of stakeholders from across the health and technology sector. We asked for thoughts on the report’s findings and the “missed opportunities” Lord Darzi highlights from analysis of the past ten years, and look ahead to the ways technology can help secure the future of the NHS.
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?Our incredible team of judges have been busy scoring entries in the Health Tech Awards 2024, and we’re now delighted to?reveal the finalists!
Here, we share details behind each finalist, so you can read about the projects, digital teams and programmes – something we love to do and learn about each!
To explore the entries,?please visit our dedicated page here, where you can browse by category and get stuck into reading the entries – including their approach, successes and results.
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?The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH) has published its new strategy for 2024-2030, with digital and data highlighted as one of nine “essential focus areas”.
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?The launch of a new ￡250,000 fund for innovation and digital tools in wound care has been announced, designed to improve outcomes for patients with chronic wounds by supporting widespread adoption of digital wound management in community nursing.
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?University College London has launched a partnership with YouTube Health, designed to improve access and quality of mental health information on the site for young people in particular.
The university reports high demand for mental health content through YouTube, heightening a “crucial” need for content to be accurate and evidence-based.
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Interview: Kumbi Kariwo, Birmingham Community Healthcare, on utilising Isla for inclusive wound care
?HTN sat down with Kumbi Kariwo, equality and inclusion project lead at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, to learn more about her research into wound care in darker skin tones and how this has translated into practice in Birmingham and beyond.
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?NHS England has published priorities for the winter period, outlining the steps to be taken by NHSE and by ICB and providers, including how data will be used to support patient safety, quality of care and transformation.
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?NHS England has shared details of a four-year contract awarded to three suppliers for a national digital tobacco treatment service, providing adult smokers in England with access to digital tobacco dependency apps.
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Feature: Rackspace Technology on the tangible benefits delivered to the NHS through leveraging cloud
?Ahead of their attendance at HETT, HTN recently sat down to talk with a team from Rackspace Technology, which delivers hybrid multicloud solutions across platform infrastructure, applications, data, and security. We were joined by Nick Roberts,?sovereign services?lead (including healthcare, cloud, proposition services and product), and Jason Jones, executive in residence.
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?NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s three-year plan to improve mental health services has highlighted the role of data as a “key enabler” in realigning services so that inpatient provision better fits the needs of the population, following a self-assessment involving multiple stakeholders.
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?The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust (RNOH) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) have announced their upcoming collaboration on Epic’s EHR, which is expected to be rolled-out at RNOH in November of 2025.