Features
Where hype meets strategy, the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum brings clarity, credibility, and collaboration to the evolving landscape of AI in medicine. By Gil Bashe, Health Tech World Correspondent, Medika Life Editor-in-Chief and Chair Global Health and Purpose, FINN Partners The conversation about artificial intelligence in health has become crowded with bold claims, hype-driven [...]
Scott Healy is CEO of Psych Hub. The Health Tech World Award-winning company’s platform aims to empower the people seeking mental health support, the practitioners delivering it and the organisations supporting them with evidence-based education and resources. Here, we learn more about the importance of accessible educational resources and the scope of Psych Hub’s mental health [...]
Spending time in or around nature can provide people suffering from chronic lower back pain with a degree of escapism that helps them better manage their physical discomfort, a new study has shown. The research is the first of its kind to ask people experiencing chronic lower back pain – in some cases for almost [...]
St John & St Elizabeth Hospital has launched a new children and young people’s elective day surgery service for children aged three and above, increasing access to high-quality paediatric care in London. The service provides elective day surgery with procedures available across a range of specialties including ENT, ophthalmology, maxillofacial, and plastic surgery; with further [...]
In this article, Volodymyr Andrushchak, Data Science Team Lead at Lemberg Solutions and Ph.D. in Data Science, explores the potential that large language models (LLMs) bring to the healthcare industry. Over the past few years, the healthcare industry has turned its sights to the vast potential of large language models. Commonly referred to as AI [...]
Dr Arjun Sahgal is a professor and radiation oncologist based at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada. Dr Sahgal has played a pivotal role in introducing cutting-edge technologies in what is now among the top six largest radiotherapy centres in North America. Dr Sahgal talks to Health Tech World about how one next-generation platform [...]
Three decades of patient behaviour: The constant hunger to know By Gil Bashe, chair global health and purpose, FINN Partners, and correspondent to Health Tech World When I first wrote in 1994 that the “Information Age will change the patient’s role,” in the cover story for Product Management Today, it was more than a forecast—it [...]
By Christian Hardahl, healthcare leader (EMEA region) at software firm SAS. As AI continues to permeate every facet of the modern world, industries are rapidly discovering its potential to revolutionise operations, improve efficiency and drive innovation. Among the sectors pushing the boundaries of AI adoption, the healthcare sector stands at the forefront. However, healthcare organisations face [...]
By Afshin Attari, Senior Director of Public Sector & Unified Platforms at Exponential-e Health and wealth are said to be our most valuable assets. But while the banking sector has invested heavily in protecting financial data, the healthcare industry still faces challenges in safeguarding medical information. As the NHS introduces new technologies and digital capabilities [...]
Sean Kelly is Chief Medical Officer and head of healthcare strategy at Imprivata - the digital identity company providing simple and secure access for the healthcare industry. Imprivata enables organisations in over 45 countries to fully manage and secure all enterprise and third-party digital identities by establishing trust between people, technology and information. Here, we [...]
