Europe
Researchers are using an AI technology to improve polyp detection.
The NHS has made a big investment in entertainment and communications infrastructure over the past two decades; but the focus has been on patients. It’s time to think how this amenity could be extended to staff and used to improve their working lives, says Matt O’Donovan, chief executive of WiFi SPARK. Over the past two [...]
The global pandemic has accelerated the digitisation of the healthcare sector in a way that no-one could have adequately predicted. As with any rapidly expanding industry where funding and ambition outpace emerging expertise, the race for talent in digital health is fierce. For companies who seek to succeed, there is a natural temptation to look [...]
In the sixth of his series on Rules for Budding Entrepreneurs Dr Hamblin-Brown says all businesses need a sense of purpose if they are to thrive.
An NHS anaesthetist is gaining global attention for her app-based startup formed during the pandemic to help UK healthcare professionals communicate with their patients. Rachael Grimaldi, who developed the CardMedic app during her maternity leave, has won the She Loves Tech prize, competing with 5,000 female entrepreneurs in 70 countries. She will now receive an investment [...]
Patients across the globe will be able to rank their treatment and experience at the hands of doctors thanks to a new benchmarking gauge. Launched by Doctify - which operates a comparison site for patients and medics - the tool uses sentiment analysis to allow healthcare providers to see where they rank in terms of [...]
Digital health consultancy, Cloud21, has received investment from global health technology consultancy, Tegria, to support health and social care organisations meet their local and national digital transformation ambitions. The investment will see the companies combine Cloud21’s deep and longstanding experience of working with the NHS, with Tegria’s extensive international, end-to-end digital strategy and support services across health [...]
Healthcare professionals in the UK can from today freely tap into the Digital Health Academy's online training programme to be able to confidently use digital health technologies. The CPD-accredited course - the first of its kind in the UK - aims to build a digital-ready front-line healthcare workforce, as highlighted in the government's current NHSX [...]
Neuroscience research has received a bounty over the past decade thanks to multidisciplinary collaboration and the dividends of digitalisation, say leading scientists in the field. Fifteen experts at the European Human Brain Project (HBP) claim the group is the first that 'systematically connects brain research, medicine and information technologies'. The HBP has brought together communities [...]
Health Tech World reports on how NOE CPC and its pioneering collaborative model is helping to support the NHS in driving technology developments. Public health has always had an insatiable appetite for new ideas and technologies; but this has intensified during the last two years, out of the pressure generated by the pandemic. For innovators [...]
