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An app-driven care provider which provides virtual care inside people’s homes augmented through a platform has raised £2.6 million ($320M) in an equity and debt financing round - and will use it to free up NHS beds. Cera’s successful platform allows carers to monitor patients’ health and potentially flag problems, whilst claiming to move more [...]
UK-based digital health company Congenica has announced a partnership with biotechnology company Avesthagen in a bid to grow its presence in India. Congenica enables precision medicine through its diagnostic platform for genomic data while Avesthagen creates personalised healthcare through the convergence of food, pharma and population genetics. Congenica’s automated, AI-powered platform will provide genomic analysis [...]
TED Talks speaker and clinical psychologist Dr Newman speaks to Health Tech World about the importance of AI in healthcare - and how what we call it matters more than you might think... When you think of artificial intelligence, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If it’s a robot with arms and legs, [...]
Young MedTech entrepreneur Moises Barbera Ramos speaks to Health Tech World about his journey - and how his childhood experiences set him up for business success... When 23-year-old Moises was at school playing sports, he never could have imagined it was setting him up for successful entrepreneurship later in life. His sense of community and [...]
After this week’s headlines that the UK “has already tipped” into a recession, we look at the possible effects on the health tech sector… When former BOE rate-setter Danny Blanchflower said that the UK is probably “already in” a recession, there was a shared underground rumble felt across the country. What was generally seen as [...]
Virtual wards, surgical hubs and artificial intelligence are said to be “key to tackling the backlog” - but how far can tech really go in saving the NHS? The NHS is in critical condition, with thousands of patients waiting more than two years for treatment, and chronic staff shortages pushing the health system to its [...]
A trusted theory about what causes Alzheimer’s disease could have come from “falsified” and “shockingly blatant” image tampering - casting major doubts on a defining paper, it has emerged. An investigation by Science reveals how a 2006 study, published in Nature, has influenced 16 years of clinical trials into Alzheimer's Disease. It had been connected [...]
The quality and costs of healthcare systems around the globe has been revealed in a new report looking at 33 of the world’s most developed countries. As reported by Health Tech World, the NHS is rolling out tech solutions to help cope with record demand and massive shortages of staff and beds. But how does [...]
An inspiring young scientist who invented a tech solution to transform COVID-19 testing has received special recognition from a senior royal. Eloise Wells, molecular geneticist and analyst at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, created a special program to locate positive COVID-19 samples amongst the tens of thousands of swab extracts received daily, amid the first waves [...]
