Health Tech Forward
Christian Hardahl, EMEA Healthcare Leader at SAS, explains how increasingly sophisticated digital twins could transform hospital operations and pave the way for better patient care. Staffing shortage, wasted medication, delays and waiting lists are just some of the everyday inefficiencies that healthcare professionals are familiar with. Without urgent reform, these challenges are only going to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Claire Morris, chief studio officer at Founders Factory By 2040, the number of people living with major health conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart failure and dementia is projected to rise by 39 per cent. This surge threatens the resilience of the healthcare system and risks dragging the UK economy down as rising illness [...]
A new health and wellbeing business support programme, created to accelerate new product and service development across West Yorkshire, has officially launched. Designed to kickstart new and emerging enterprises in health and wellbeing, the Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator (HHII) is being delivered as a strategic partnership between Kirklees Council, the University of Huddersfield and the [...]
Sanius Health has launched the HPCC25 x KOL25 Impact and Insights Report. The report offers a strategic blueprint for where rare and chronic disease care must go next. Held on 9th May 2025 in Westminster, the Haematology Patient and Carers Congress (HPCC25) and the inaugural KOL25 Forum brought together a community of over 1000 patients, [...]
Finnish medtech startup AIATELLA has secured €2 million in funding to accelerate the development and scaling of its AI-powered cardiovascular imaging technology. The funding will help the company conduct clinical trials and develop its ultrasound-based preventative screening, which detects and quantifies carotid artery narrowing in minutes. The round was led by Helsinki-based Nordic Science Investments, with Specialist VC, Harjavalta Ventures, [...]
