NHSX officially opens for business
Health Secretary Matt Hancock and NHSX CEO Matthew Gould officially launched the new technology unit for the health service this week.
Archive: Healthcare transformation
NHSX exercises spend control powers and reduces NHS transformation programmes from 30 to 10
The newly formed digital unit for the NHS, dubbed NHSX, is thinking about how it can adopt standards and a platform approach to digital change across the health service.
NHS Glasgow turns to AI and wearables to improve treatment of lung disease
The NHS board is using the Microsoft Azure platform to send patient data from their home directly to medical staff to cut down on emergency hospital visits
NHS Trust talks up the benefits and cost savings of Robotic Process Automation across the health service
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust says savings it has started to see via automation can and should be replicated right across the Health Service
How one NHS Trust saved hundreds of thousands of pounds with a new agency workforce app
Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation NHS Trust says it’s reduced nursing agency overhead 13.5% through a new staff app
NHS digital round-up - NHS App focuses on APIs and London Trusts launch £3bn framework
There was also an interesting guest post this week on the GDS blog about how NHS Digital is adapting the GOV.UK design system for the health service.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust leads successful Southwestern migration to HSCN
Nine organisations complete a move off NHS N3 to the new Health and Social Care Network
Great Ormond Street Hospital aims to become a data analytics business
The internationally renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital is partnering with Microsoft to rethink the way it carries out healthcare for children.
May’s AI ambitions to take on cancer - noble goal, but a case of rhetoric over reality
Theresa May wants to use AI to take on the fight against cancer. A great ambition, but how would it work in practice?
Jared Kushner promises ‘whole of government’ approach to interoperability
White House advisor’s surprise appearance at a major healthcare summit puts the spotlight on Electronic Heath Records and “whole of government” approach to IT interoperability.
Resistance to sensor ‘spying’ could impact smart city healthcare plans
Early results out of Manchester’s IoT smart city Demonstrator could provide clues as to what does and doesn’t work for healthcare and technology
Heartening life-saving applications that apply deep learning to medical data
Deep learning algorithms are accelerating the pace at which medical science discovers and predicts health risks. Much more lies ahead.
Radiologists are often in short supply and overworked - deep learning to the rescue
Deep learning has numerous applications in medicine. We examine just one area, radiology, where DL is allowing for the reaping of low hanging fruit.