Government announces £500,000 to bolster healthcare cyber security

It comes as the National Cyber Security Centre identified a heightened cyber threat to the UK health sector during the
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Digital immunity passports part of government’s plans to ramp up testing

Under the plans digital immunity passports will be used to allow people who have tested negative for the virus to
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AI will ‘under deliver’ at first but ‘blow our minds’ in the future

Speaking at London Tech Week Ali Parsa said the NHS is doing “fantastic” work in the field of AI but
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Scotland launches UKs second Covid-19 contact-tracing app

The Protect Scotland app is designed as an “extra tool” to support the manual contact-tracing already in place under NHS
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app to be launched in England and Wales

The contact-tracing app offers QR code check-in capability, allows users to book a free test and has an isolation countdown
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Mobile health apps news in brief

This month’s mobile apps round up features news that design company Sigma has partnered with app evaluation company ORCHA.
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‘Technical error’ left suppliers ‘omitted’ from remote monitoring framework

The framework is designed to expand access to remote monitoring services once Attend Anywhere’s contract expires in March 2021.
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Gould reveals lessons learned during development of contact-tracing app

Speaking at London Tech Week on 8 September Matthew Gould said NHSX "did what it was set up to do"
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Government pledges £32m for transformative health technology projects

The projects range from an AI x-ray scanner to diagnose cancer more quickly and robotic muscles to assist those recovering
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Government announces £50m diagnostic products under National AI Lab

A range of AI tools that can accurately analyse breast cancer screening scans and assess emergency stroke patients will be
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