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...
Health secretary Jeane Freeman signals unease about digital by default for GP appointments
Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman has rejected a suggestion by her UK counterpart Matt Hancock to make ‘all’ GP appointments online – ‘unless there’s a compelling clinical reason not to’....
£5.5m boost for University of Glasgow-led project to develop quantum-powered healthcare sensors
A Glasgow University-led project to develop the next generation of quantum-powered health sensors has received a £5.5m funding boost. The Healthcare Quest initiative will pioneer the use of massively enhanced...
COVID-19 vaccine programme could be underpinned by nationally coordinated digital system
A nationwide digital system could be built to help manage the rollout of the largest ever vaccination programme in Scotland – in response to COVID-19. Early stage work is being...
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