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Shaving critical minutes off the time it takes to diagnose a heart attack and begin treatment could be as simple as the push of a button. Using a programmable button to page a phlebotomist for a blood draw reduced the time it took to identify patients suffering a heart attack by more than 11 minutes [...]
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 [...]
Biotherapeutics specialist Geneos Therapeutics has clinched US$17m in second-round funding to help its development of tumour neoantigen targeted personalised immunotherapies for liver cancer patients. Led by Flerie Invest and backed by Santé Ventures, Korea Investment Partners – Global Bio Fund and INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, the investment will be used to bolster Geneos' GT-30 Phase Ib/IIa clinical [...]
Israeli medical devices firm Alpha Tau Medical has lured Medstrada CEO Ruth Alon to its c-suite. The Nasdaq-listed developer of alpha-radiation cancer therapy believes the seasoned senior executive - with stints in venture capital and Silicon Valley consulting - will bring her extensive financial and strategic operations expertise to bear on the Tel Aviv-based firm. [...]
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 [...]
An AI-enabled tool that can predict when heart attacks will strike has been devised by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. In tests, the tool accurately indicated which patients would experience a heart attack in five years, based on the amount and composition of plaque in arteries that supply blood to the heart. The [...]
The life sciences sector’s failure to adequately provide ‘connected health’ products and services to patients will prove a boon to Big Tech, according to a new report. Capgemini’s research reveals that, despite high ambitions, only a few life sciences organisations have the digital, technical and collaborative abilities to realise the potential of connected health. And less [...]
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 [...]
