NHS Patients Targeted to Reduce Risks as they Wait for Hospital Treatment
Surgeons say the NHS 'Waiting Well' initiative now has national relevance - the project has already shown improved outcomes, reduced complications and shorter stays for patients taking part, at a time when more than seven million people in England are on waiting lists.
Led by integrated care board NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, with the support of technology partner C2-Ai and health coaching provider Surgery Hero, the programme is helping to locate and provide urgently needed support for some of the most vulnerable patients awaiting surgery.
Orion Health has appointed Mark Hindle as its new vice president for the UK and Ireland. Mark has joined the leading supplier of digital tools to improve healthcare experience from Evergreen Life, a personal health record app provider.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) has launched new NHS App features to transform the way patients access and manage their appointments within the NHS. The programme, known as Wayfinder, is part of a national strategy led by NHS England to improve patient experience and help tackle waiting list backlogs - positioning the NHS App as the digital "front door" to NHS services. 
Genomics England has completed installation of an enterprise imaging system that will help to support a world-pioneering initiative for cancer research. The programme is linking whole genome sequencing, pathology and radiology data, in what has been described as the world’s largest multimodal cancer research platform. 
FDB (First Databank) announced that it has achieved ISO 13485:2016, the Quality Management System (QMS) for medical devices. This is a significant step for FDB, the UK's leading supplier of prescribing decision support solutions and it paves the way for the company's journey towards up-classification of its solutions. 
Qure.ai, one of world's leading providers of AI for healthcare, will launch its artificial intelligence (AI) playbook for radiology at this year's European Congress of Radiology. Developed with its European research partners Professor Dirk Pickuth and Dr Susanne Ohlmann-Knafo of CaritasKlinikum Saarbrücken/Germany, the playbook will provide European clinicians and radiologists with a helpful guide to understanding the business case for AI in radiology.