December 2018 Newsletter
Get all the latest news, information on events, and other relevant opportunities (such as accelerator, fellowship, funding calls, pitch events) in the December issue of the DigitalHealth.London newsletter.
Get all the latest news, information on events, and other relevant opportunities (such as accelerator, fellowship, funding calls, pitch events) in the December issue of the DigitalHealth.London newsletter.
Changing Health, a leading provider of digital behaviour change programmes, and DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumnus, has secured £3 million in new funding. The company combines evidenced psychological tools with technology to enable people to improve their lifestyle habits. It will use the investment to develop existing and new programmes to address unmet need and drive growth in the UK and overseas.
With over a million UK children experiencing communication difficulties that are likely to persist into adulthood, could digital therapeutics offer self-management tools to improve functioning and reduce the burden of the underlying impairment?
From the convenience of your phone, you can monitor growth milestones, record blood sugar levels, receive cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to treat depression and anxiety, and come ‘face-to-face’ with a doctor through the GP-at-hand service. So what, if anything, does a parent need to know when trawling through the ever expanding library of apps?
New standards setting out the requirements needed to develop digital health technologies for the NHS were published today, Monday 10 December 2018. The standards will accelerate the uptake of products like healthcare apps and wearable devices across the NHS.
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Jack Grodon, Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist / Fracture Clinic Team Lead at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and one of DigitalHealth.London’s Digital Pioneer Fellows, explores the challenges that may prevent patients sticking to their regimes; and suggests ways that digital tools could help.
An online tool for diagnosing ADHD, an algorithmic tool to identify foods that balance blood sugar levels, and a video and image database of…
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“As a lead therapist with a background in Quality Improvement, I am interested in exploring how acute inpatient therapy teams in the NHS are using their own data,” writes Nazia Ahmad. She asks whether it is possible to evidence whether therapists are making data-driven decisions and improvements.
Online GP consultation provider LIVI is launching to patients across the UK through a new NHS partnership. The company is taking part in the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme, and is making the app available via the NHS to patients registered with 40 GP practices in North West Surrey and the North West of England.
Over £7 million for seven new NHS Test Beds around the country has been announced, which include partnerships with several DigitalHealth.London Accelerator companies. Projects being tested include using AI and machine learning for breast cancer screening, and a digital platform to help manage diabetes.
The fifth event in the Mayor of London’s TechInvest programme will showcase London’s leading Women in Tech, with a focus on female tech founders making an impact in London as a global tech capital.
Wellcome Innovator Awards support researchers who are transforming great ideas into digital healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health.
Outdated and obstructive NHS IT systems will become a thing of the past, Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said as he launched his “tech vision” in The Future of Healthcare, and as he later spoke at an event hosted by DigitalHealth.London founding partner Health Innovation Network.
The online portal, DrDoctor, is set to save the NHS tens of millions of pounds by slashing the number of missed appointments as well as making it easier and more convenient for patients to make and manage bookings. Patients can also fill in medical forms before they arrive using the system and receive appointment letters digitally.
Led by DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumnus Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems (C-BAS), Innovate UK has awarded a £865,000 Digital Health Technology Catalyst grant to a consortium to develop an advanced AI platform that analyses physical movements of patients. Partners include Andiamo (another alumnus), which makes user-centred children’s orthotics.
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PwC and Digital Health.London join forces again for their next edition of Scale | Health. Based in London, this 10-week programme focuses on creating commercial opportunities, providing industry and commercial insight through expert led masterclasses as well as bespoke company support.
The NHS Digital Academy is a virtual organisation set up to support and help develop the digital leaders who can drive the information and technology transformation of the NHS.
Toral Thomas, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, attended the Channel shift to digital outpatients workshop in Birmingham on 24 September, 2018. The event, one of four national outpatients events, was organised and hosted by the academic health science networks (AHSNs), on behalf of NHS Improvement.
Digital self-monitoring has the potential to raise health awareness, guide people to make more informed decisions and enable new care models to emerge in the NHS.
CLIMB-CF is a study, funded by the CF Trust and run from Imperial College London, exploring whether it is possible to monitor children and young people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at home using an app and some Bluetooth equipment.
In Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a key challenge for physiotherapy compliance is that the children’s wards are not conducive to performing regular exercise.