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Healthcare innovators, NHS professionals and industry experts are being invited to take part in a high-intensity programme aimed at accelerating solutions to some of the health service’s most pressing challenges. Health Tech Enterprise, which supports MedTech innovators in navigating the complexities of healthcare commercialisation, has opened applications for its upcoming Health Innovation Sprints in London [...]
Internationally renowned surgeon and innovator Prof Shafi Ahmed has published his new book, INTELLIGENT: The Evolution of AI Transforming Healthcare, offering a powerful and timely exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern medicine. INTELLIGENT examines the rapid acceleration of AI across healthcare – from reading diagnostic scans and guiding surgical procedures to transforming drug [...]
Briya has announced that its global data network has expanded to cover over 120 million patient records. By unifying this massive real-world data (RWD) repository with the Briya AIRE research engine, Briya is delivering a scalable solution to address the industry’s need for diverse, high-fidelity patient representation to advance medical innovation and personalized medicine. David [...]
Cera, Europe’s largest health tech company, has announced the launch of the world’s first dedicated AI Lab for the care sector. The initiative aims to address the global care capacity crisis by rapidly building, proving, and licensing high-impact AI tools to transform health systems, solving productivity and accessibility challenges internationally. Dr Ben Maruthappu MBE is [...]
Rapid Health’s Smart Triage innovation newly integrated into the NHS App, is improving GP access for patients across England. For the first time, over one million patients can access appointments not previously available via the NHS App 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, marking an improvement in patient experience, and reducing administrative pressure on practices. Every patient using Smart [...]
By Alasdair Craine The debate around NHS data has drifted into something unrecognisable. What should be a grounded, technical discussion about infrastructure, safety and outcomes has instead become a distraction that is now directly impacting performance. From boardrooms to wards, and up into the centre of government, the truth remains simple. The NHS owns its [...]
By Wolfgang Hackl, MD, CEO OncoGenomX, Allschwil, Switzerland Precision oncology is entering a new phase. Over the next 10-15 years, it is likely to evolve from a discipline focused mainly on molecular matching into one that is dynamic, predictive, and deeply integrated with tumour biology, causal reasoning, and advanced AI. For HealthTech innovators, clinicians, researchers, [...]
Helical has announced a US$10 million seed round led by redalpine with participation from Gradient, BoxGroup, Frst and notable angels including Aidan Gomez (CEO Cohere), Clement Delangue (CEO HuggingFace) and footballer Mario Goetze. The Helical virtual AI lab for pharma is an application layer that turns biological foundation models into decision-ready, reproducible in-silico discovery workflows. [...]
A new AI tool could show which advanced bowel cancer patients will respond to bevacizumab, a drug recently introduced by the NHS. Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin developed the PhenMap tool with the goal of sparing potentially thousands of patients from [...]
A late-breaking presentation at EHRA 2026 reaffirmed the safety and effectiveness of Boston Scientific’s FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) Platform. One-year outcomes in 49 persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) patients treated with the FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation Platform, using the FARAWAVE PFA Catheter, demonstrated favourable efficacy and safety outcomes, as well as predictable and efficient procedural [...]
