Insight
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 [...]
By Gil Bashe, chair global health and purpose, FINN Partners, Medika Life editor-in-chief, and correspondent to Health Tech World This year’s BIO International Convention comes during heightened uncertainty, from shifting regulatory environments to tightened capital markets. In this landscape, the importance of convening as a sector is greater than ever. As the global community converges [...]
Young people suffering from certain types of cancer, such as bone tumours, are experiencing lengthy times to diagnosis, new research has found. Childhood cancer has been declared a global disease burden, with early diagnosis a priority. The aim of this study was to help researchers understand the journey that children and young people experience from [...]
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 [...]
Millions of people across the world still lack access to basic eye care such as glasses according to a new study. The research measured the global availability and quality of treatment for uncorrected refractive error, one of the most common forms of vision loss. The study used data from 815,273 participants from 76 countries and [...]
Ergéa UK, a vendor-neutral provider of Managed Equipment Services (MES), has published a comprehensive white paper exploring how modern MES solutions can help expand patient access to radiotherapy across the UK. Titled “Radiotherapy MES: A Planned Long-Term Solution to the UK Radiotherapy Crisis,” the paper outlines how a radiotherapy MES provides a structured, funded, and [...]
Patients are set to benefit from an exciting digital transformation in Powys, as a significant step forward is taken towards safer and more efficient prescribing and medicines administration in hospitals. Powys Teaching Health Board (PTHB) has chosen Better as its technology partner to support delivery of electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA), which will revolutionise [...]
