Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) is set to go-live with Portasana, Wellola’s patient communication platform. Portasana will digitise up to two million patient communications each year, freeing up vital workforce capacity and reducing the number of missed appointments or “Did Not Attends” (DNAs) across the region, helping BCHC meet national targets for reducing […]
Tesla has increased prices on new Model Ys, in a slight reversal after drastic cuts just two weeks ago. The changes went live on Tesla’s website tonight, and only seem to affect the Model Y, Tesla’s most popular vehicle. However, in contrast to the massive price cuts of up to $13K, the Model Y has […]
Ahead of its start of series production next quarter, commercial EV startup Volta Trucks announced it has locked in customer orders for over 300 of its all-electric Volta Zero trucks. These orders alone secure a huge chunk of the company’s overall production targets for 2023, representing customer demand and cause for optimism as Volta Trucks […]
The Department of Health and Social Care has published draft statutory guidance for NHS England with regards to how it should exercise statutory functions intended for transfer from NHS Digital. The draft regulations, named ‘Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023’, have been developed ahead of NHS […]
Radar Healthcare has partnered with Circle Health Group to introduce its risk management and compliance system across 54 hospitals. With the aim of unlocking safety data to improve patient outcomes, Circle Health hospitals will move away from using multiple systems and use one platform across its network. The project started this month and is said […]
If you thought fat tires were already wide enough, then think again. Himiway’s newest fat tires are still packing a little holiday weight, and the company is not ashamed. Now it’s showing it off on its latest electric bikes. Himiway has used typical 26.0? x 4.0? tires on its e-bikes for quite some time, opting […]
Ahead of his session at Digital Health Rewired in March 2023, director of AI, imaging and deployment at the NHS Transformation Directorate, Dominic Cushnan explains the need to focus on supporting NHS organisations to deploy AI technologies. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been hailed as a utopia to solve many healthcare problems, but so far we have […]
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has introduced an app to help patients prepare and recover from surgery. Patients who are undergoing joint replacements (knee and hip) can have the option of using the mymobility app, as a way to receive advice and support. The trust piloted the app last year and has since seen […]
New £1.5 million healthcare simulation facilities have officially opened at Aston Medical School and in the School of Optometry at Aston University. The state-of-the-art facilities were formally opened by Paulette Hamilton, member of parliament for Birmingham Erdington, on Friday 2 December at a ribbon cutting ceremony that was attended by Aston University Vice-Chancellor Professor Aleks Subic […]
In April, Health Tech World and FINN Partners will celebrate the incredible innovators helping to reshape healthcare around the world. We’ve had some fantastic submissions so far and we can’t wait to share them with the world. You have just one week left to send us your submissions via the application form. Entry is free. […]
