Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know if you want to be “in the know”.
👇 News
👫 Digital health practice Holly Health is in partnership with Loughborough University and the Modal partnership to offer its digital multimorbidity self-management application called Prevent. The collaboration has secured £447,000 from Innovate UK for an 18-month project, which will focus on patients aged 40 to 65 living with multimorbidity and those at risk.
📟 East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust expects the K2 maternity EPR to be commissioned in June 2024, according to board papers of a meeting on the 1st May 2024. The maternity electronic health record concerns all clinical documentation and will improve the care and communication that future parents receive.
🐶 Digital Pharmacy UK Pharmacy2u has acquired PharmPet Co, an online veterinary pharmacy for an undisclosed sum. The agreement follows a partnership between the two companies in November 2024, which saw them join forces with the aim of providing pet prescriptions in a more convenient and cost-effective manner.
🧠 DrPhysician has announced a new integration partnership with Rio EPR Access, which he says aims to help improve the administration of mental care. The former's patient engagement platform will integrate with EPR to streamline and optimize workflows.
👩 TenU, an international collaboration that aims to increase the societal impact of research, has teamed up with investors and professional services companies to launch a user-friendly project that aims to boost software spin-outs in the UK United. The plan provides recommendations that enable faster transactions with less friction and rapid scaling opportunities. THE USIT for software guide Ilaunched on May 20, 2024.
❓ Did you know ?
According to a Virgin Media O2 Business report, published in May 2024, more than a third of NHS professionals surveyed believe it will take a decade for digital equality across the NHS. THE report predicts that by 2030, 8% of the population will still be digitally excluded.
📖 What we read
A report from Cancer Research UK outlines the current state of diagnostics in England and recommends how to address the issues to provide a world-class cancer service.
'A complete diagnosispublished in May 2024, calls on the UK government to improve digital infrastructure, optimize the innovation process and increase capital spending to help detect cancer more effectively.
🚨 Events to come
June 4-6, 2024, London – Infosecurity Europe 2024