Digital Health #011: The ideas, people, innovations and technologies that are shaping the future of healthcare.
Optum UK to buy EMIS for £1.24 Billion - Optum UK, a part of U.S.-based UnitedHealth Group, said the deal would help the combined company to provide better services to the state-run National Health Service (NHS).
Will Oracle + Cerner transform Healthcare? - Oracle has a grand vision for the company to become more of a medical information company than a technology company. Even if it does not transform healthcare, it has the potential to disrupt HealthTech.
HoloLens glasses are used to operate on cancer a patient for the first time with augmented reality - Surgeons have used HoloLens 2 glasses to operate on a cancer patient for the first time with the aid of augmented reality.
What can lesser-digitised trusts learn from recent EPR deployments? - Article from Dr Anna Bayes, Chief Medical Officer at Altera Digital Health, on how the Group Zero trusts can quickly become more digitally mature.
Psyomics closes £2.4m round - Cambridge-based healthtech company Psyomics has closed a £2.4m funding round as they continue to expand access to their online mental health assessment platform to individual users and NHS trusts.
Leeds welcomes Nordic healthcare platform - The technology provides online knowledge and decision support systems for frontline staff and is already widely used across Scandinavia. The collaboration with Leeds will be its first step into the UK national health system.
HSBC to lend £250m to Digital Health scale-ups - The new Growth Lending fund will enable tech scale-ups to borrow up to £15m each to help IP and technology-rich businesses in cloud or software, healthtech, edtech, fintech and advanced manufacturing accelerate further growth.
NHS app will be 'one stop shop' - The NHS app is set to become a “one stop shop” for GP appointments, prescriptions and hospital records. Health bosses hope that three out of four eligible people will be using the app by March 2024. Currently, the app has 28 million users, around half of England’s population.
The Breakthrough For Telehealth In Mental Health - Much of the best in telehealth is still to come, but patients have little interest in returning to the old system in this early era. The benefits for the patient are too compelling: less time spent on appointments, significant ease of access, reduced travel costs, improved clinical processes and at-home privacy.
TELUS to acquire LifeWorks for $2.3 billion - LifeWorks is a world leader in providing digital and in-person solutions that support the total wellbeing of individuals – mental, physical, financial and social.
Digital technology must be front and centre when tackling the children's mental health crisis - But children today face challenges that I couldn't have imagined when I was growing up. While social media is innocent fun for most young people, for some it provides a platform for bullying and constant pressure that doesn’t finish at the end of the school day but can be a looming 24/7 negative presence.
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