West of Scotland health boards create regional portal to access results quickly
Scottish health boards covering 2.2m people are able to share patient information after the completion of a two-year project to create a regional portal. Five west of Scotland health boards...
‘It has big ramifications for patient care’ – winner of medical visualisation hackathon
Eight teams at Product Forge’s hackathon, ‘Medical Visualisation Product Forge’, presented their prototypes to improve medical care on Sunday evening, at CodeBase in Edinburgh. The winning team, Relay, made up...
Scottish health care startup Care Sourcer secures largest contract to date
Scottish health tech startup Care Sourcer has secured its largest contract to date and is now working alongside NHS Gloucestershire Foundation Trust in phase 2 of a project won through the Small...
New technology enables paramedics to send high-quality video and ultrasound
Aberdeen University, NHS Highland and the Scottish Ambulance Service are testing technology which enables paramedics to send high-quality video and ultrasound images ahead of a patient’s arrival at hospital. It...
Connecting care across Fife’s acute, community and mental health hospitals
NHS Fife made a big step this year in connecting the care we provide across our acute, community and mental health hospitals. When we switched on our TrakCare patient information...
Medical visualisation hackathon focused on advances in precision medicine
Product Forge has partnered with Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems Europe and Scottish Health Innovations, to host a hackathon based on creating innovations that would help solve medical challenges faced by...
Computer scientists aim to identify link between places and sounds
A study being carried out by the Universities of Aberdeen, Stirling and Edinburgh is aiming to identify and analyse sounds associated with particular places in a bid to gain an...
Brand new technology for NHS Scotland patients
The Golden Jubilee National Hospital has implemented a pioneering new digital system for recording patients’ vital signs which allows clinicians to monitor their condition in near real time. Unveiled at...
Data specialists invited to improve cancer care in Scotland – one week left to register
Data specialists, technicians and clinicians are being called upon to contribute their expertise to a project aimed at making Scotland a world leader in cancer care. The Cancer Innovation Challenge...
Organised Health moves offices and plans London expansion
Glasgow-based digital health start-up Organised Health Technologies celebrates continued growth with move to city centre office and plans for future London expansion. After months of continued internal and external growth,...
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