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  • Norwegian remote monitoring company plans for UK expansion

    Dignio, a Norwegian remote monitoring company, is aiming to scale up in the UK following the completion of a series A funding round earlier this year.  Dignio launched in 2010 and had its first deployment in 2012 in the Norwegian healthcare system, a publicly funded body similar to the NHS. The company has grown organically [...]

  • Could C. elegans be the key to slowing ageing?

    Health Tech World spoke to Magnitude Biosciences about its groundbreaking work with C. elegans and how it is assisting biotechs in the development of drugs that can slow ageing and tackle age-related neurodegenerative diseases.  C. elegans is a tiny worm about a millimetre in length. It’s been used in research since the late 1960s after [...]

  • Radiobotics: “We’re on the cusp of a second wave of innovation”

    Health Tech World hears from Radiobotics, a Danish start up that is developing AI solutions to analyse musculoskeletal x-ray images, a relatively neglected area in the growing field of radiology AI.  According to the Royal College of Radiologists, the NHS radiologist workforce is 33% understaffed. By 2025, that figure is expected to reach 44%. In [...]

  • GPDQ: Rethinking face-to-face healthcare

    Health Tech World caught up with Paul Roberts, CEO of on-demand GP service GPDQ. He spoke about GPDQ’s aim to keep patients out of hospital, how scheduling software has boosted the company’s efficiency and the impact of COVID-19 on face-to-face healthcare   GPDQ was founded in 2016 with the aim of disrupting the way care [...]