Healthcare Roundup 11 September 2020

Both the English and Scottish governments announced new restrictions on social gatherings as coronavirus infection rates ticked up again. Scotland launched a contact tracing app. England didn’t. To underline the challenges that UK health systems could face this winter, the number of people on waiting lists hit record highs.

In a quiet week for health tech news, the NHSX NHS AI Lab unveiled 42 projects that it will develop, evaluate, test or try and get adopted in the NHS. And Orion Health was listed on the Spark framework for cutting edge technology, for its Remote Patient Monitoring solution.