Remote emergency care technology platform secures £248,000 in government funding
A remote emergency care technology platform has secured £248,000 in government funding to boost expansion plans and help accelerate adoption of the solution in new markets. Mime Technologies, a spin-out...
Scottish healthtech company aims to go global with cloud-based waiting list and operating theatre capacity tool
A Scottish healthtech startup is aiming to revolutionise the way patient waiting lists are managed and improve the utilisation of operating theatre capacity in the NHS. Infix, which is commencing a...
Tech volunteers develop new online tool to help visually impaired access COVID-19 data
Tech volunteers in Scotland have developed a new online tool to help visually impaired people access COVID-19 data in a useable format. In a ‘world first’, the Scottish Tech Army...
NHS Grampian publishes new five-year digital strategy
A Scottish health board has published details of a new five-year digital strategy which seeks to shift health and care services towards a greater degree of planned care, self-management and...
Healthcare video consulting platform in line for £25m government funding boost
A healthcare video consulting platform is in line to receive a £25m funding boost as part of a new draft infrastructure investment plan unveiled by Ministers. NHS NearMe, which saw...
‘We can’t even see your data’, government insists, after contact tracing app privacy fears
The public cloud infrastructure used to host the Scotland’s proximity contact tracing app has been configured so no one can access user data which is entirely anonymised and encrypted at...
Local health systems experts used modelling tools to better predict critical care demand
Health systems experts worked with a Scottish health board and a software company to better predict the local critical care demands caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. NHS Lanarkshire had been...
Overwhelming support for healthcare video consulting platform, survey shows
A new survey has shown overwhelming support for a healthcare video consulting platform which was upscaled nationally in Scotland to help deliver vital services during the Covid-19 pandemic. NHS Near...
Protect Scotland proximity contact tracing app hits one million downloads
Scotland’s proximity contact tracing app has hit one million downloads a week after its launch, it was revealed today. The Protect Scotland app, being used in the fight against Covid-19,...
First Minister hails success of new Protect Scotland app following more than a half a million downloads
Nicola Sturgeon has thanked the nation as more than half a million people downloaded the new Protect Scotland proximity tracing app within hours of its release. The First Minister had...
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