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A UK health tech platform has launched an app which will enable families to take healthcare more “into their own hands”. Carecite says its new app will help patients connect and coordinate with an insured, DBS checked and certified professional caregiver - empowering them to take better control of their healthcare at home. Cost of [...]
Digital forensics expert Eliza-May Austin speaks to Health Tech World about cyber attacks on healthcare - and its potential danger to life. Damage and disruption to services is one thing, but the recent cyber attacks on the NHS could easily result in much bigger consequences, according to a digital forensics and cybersecurity expert. Eliza-May Austin, [...]
An NHS Trust has launched a digital tool which claims to provide meaningful weight loss and tackle a growing obesity problem. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has announced the arrival of W8Buddy (weight buddy) which has been developed for Tier 3 Weight Management Services (T3WMS) to tackle obesity. The digital health tech tool [...]
You could be increasing your own chances of cognitive decline and dementia through daily lifestyle choices, a new study has claimed. So what exactly are the controllable risk factors, and what action can we take to keep our brains in shape? According to the NHS, the likelihood of developing dementia doubles every five years, as [...]
One round of IVF costs a sixth of the average household income (£31,400) - and families struggling to pay for it think their employers should foot the bill. Should they? Families struggling to afford the costs of IVF should be able to look to their employer for financial support, according to over 60% of Brits, [...]
A total of 12 mental health trusts have reported that they still can’t access patient records, months after the latest cyber attack on the NHS. Is it looking like some records won’t be recovered? There are 12 mental health trusts which are still unable to access important patient data as a result of the huge [...]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak discussed the future use of technologies such as robots, Virtual Reality and drones by the NHS during his speech at the CBI's Annual Conference. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the conference crowd that he “grew up in an NHS family” and that “it’s in my blood” before detailing plans for [...]
The trick to keeping the weight off in 2023 could be a strange one. Apparently, it could be as simple as cooling your hands - according to new university research. New and surprising research from Stanford University shows that cooling your palms drastically reduces fatigue, improves performance and causes greater weight loss, aiding people to [...]
Phil Howe, Chief Technology Officer at Core to Cloud and Richard Staynings, Chief Security Strategist at Cylera share their insights with Health Tech World about rising cyber threats to healthcare... With the UK Government now on ‘high alert’ - preparing for a wave of potentially devastating Russian-led cyber-attacks towards our critical infrastructure - what preventative [...]
In response to the ‘Workforce: recruitment, training, and retention report’ - Robert Miller - CEO, of Wellbeing Software explains why we have a "collective responsibility" to empower health systems to deliver more efficient, precise and proactive care for everyone... The workforce crisis is the greatest challenge facing the UK’s Health and Social Care sector today, [...]
