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By Richard Kavanagh, openEHR and FHIR Board member & Head of Technology (UK & Ireland) at Better The government has committed to introducing a Single Patient Record (SPR) for England. It is one of the clear ambitions set out in the 10 Year Health Plan, and will see it operate as a patient passport, making [...]
By James Freed, deputy director for The NHS Digital Academy, NHS England Digital is no longer an add-on to healthcare, it is inseparable from it, and is a key pillar of the NHS 10 Year Plan. Electronic patient records, remote consultations, rostering, pathology and radiology systems, and an expanding family of AI-enabled tools now frame [...]
Odgers’ Chris Hamilton and Mike Drew discuss the rapid dominance of Big Tech in healthcare and what executive leaders can do to successfully navigate this landscape Imagine your health system is approached by a major tech company offering a “data-trust” layer that connects your electronic medical records to patients’ devices. The promise is seamless identity, [...]
AI-powered wellness ecosystems, cloud-native imaging platforms, digital hospital management solutions, advanced medical gas systems, and world-leading clinical education programmes are among the innovations being showcased this year on the UK Pavilion at the Global Health Exhibition 2025. Taking place from 27–30 October in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the exhibition will welcome over 160,000 healthcare professionals, 2,000 [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of health technology. AI to be trialled at across NHS screening Pioneering AI tools are to be tested in NHS screening services in order to enable quicker diagnoses and treatment for patients using a groundbreaking new cloud system. A new AI research screening platform [...]
A new podcast from ‘Anti-CRO’ company Lindus Health explores what it really takes to build trust in consumer health and why good science, not just good marketing, is the key. Hosted by co-CEO Meri Beckwith, the Off Protocol podcast challenges the status quo of clinical trials and explores the realities of clinical research. Through open, [...]
Mr Florian Bast on Using Heidi Health Mr Florian Bast, MD FRCS is an ENT & Facial Plastic Surgeon specialisng in Rhinoplasty in London Balancing technical precision with patient connection is a daily requirement in modern ENT and facial plastic surgery. For Mr Florian Bast, a leading UK specialist in Rhinoplasty and nasal surgery, delivering [...]
Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology company, has announced findings from a newly published, first-of-its-kind comparative study of single-use negative pressure wound therapy (sNPWT) devices in orthopedic and cardiovascular surgery. Analysing real-world data from over 22,000 patients in the Premier PINC AI™ Healthcare Database, the analysis reveals that prophylactic use of PICO sNPWT (-80 [...]
Pharmaceutical Press, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s knowledge business, will showcase Stockley's Drug Interactions, practical evidence-based information to manage drug interactions safely and effectively, at this year’s Global Health Exhibition in Riyadh, highlighting its crucial role in addressing medication errors. As part of the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) UK Pavilion (Hall 3, Stand L40), [...]
By Sanius Health Satya Nadella might be the CEO of Microsoft, but he is also the unofficial poster child for what a Chief Data and Information Officer should be. Jacky Wright, formerly Microsoft’s CDIO in the US and now McKinsey’s Chief Technology and Platform Officer, carries similar weight. Atif Rafiq, who injected digital into both [...]
