Insight
By Devina Rana, partner at McDermott’s London Real Estate Practice We spend a great deal of time advising private equity sponsors on European real estate transactions from our London office. Over the past few years, one asset class keeps coming back to the table - healthcare real estate. Sometimes the interest is tentative, other times [...]
By Tuned Global Music in the medicine and research space has proved to have significant therapeutic benefits in treating conditions including dementia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD and ADHD. Now, with the evolution of music technology and AI, the potential to heal through music has become even more powerful. At a recent industry event, three experts sat [...]
By Mark Hutchinson, executive vice president, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA) As Scotland’s health and care system faces rising demand, workforce pressures and growing expectations from patients, digital transformation is no longer optional, it is a fundamental principle. However, as digital programmes mature, the challenge is no longer simply about deployment or scale. Increasingly, [...]
By Orlando Agrippa, founder and CEO, Sanius Health Walk through any London commute at 8am and you’ll see the future of healthcare swinging off people’s wrists. Thousands of tiny black screens flicker with heart rates, sleep scores, oxygen saturation, and stress metrics. The population is quietly running a rolling clinical trial on itself while buying [...]
By Carolyn Rogers, associate, Reddie & Grose Since their launch, Ozempic and Wegovy have dominated the headlines. Both drugs are manufactured by Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and contain the same active ingredient, semaglutide, which is a GLP-1 receptor agonist. However, Ozempic is directed to the treatment of type 2 diabetes, whilst [...]
By Dr Martin Scurr, GP and longtime Daily Mail medical columnist In an era of digital transformation, ‘connected care’ often risks becoming another jargon term. But for patients, it can mean the difference between receiving the right treatment or falling through the cracks. With four decades of clinical experience, I’ve seen firsthand how continuity of [...]
Every year, thousands of health tech startups launch with glossy pitches about revolutionsing healthcare. But few stay the course and make the long-term impact that investors and the healthcare system demand. We reached out to Health Tech World and Femtech World members who've watched the innovation cycle from every angle with the following question: What's [...]
By Klaus Boehncke, global digital health lead, Guillaume Duparc, healthcare partner, and Levin Laske, healthcare principal, L.E.K. Consulting In 2025, the world of healthcare and medical technology has been defined by increased AI adoption and integration into clinical systems, with recent findings outlining that AI-focused deals now make up 75 per cent of health tech funding. From [...]
By Sanius Health As advanced cancer therapies continue to move from research into routine care, attention is increasingly turning to how these treatments are experienced by patients in everyday life. Therapies such as CAR-T have transformed outcomes for many people with blood cancers, but they can also bring significant challenges, particularly around safety and predictability [...]
Across every area of healthcare, one truth remains constant: clinicians didn’t choose medicine to spend their days typing. Yet for many, a substantial part of the working day is consumed by documentation - a burden that has quietly grown into one of the most significant pressures in modern clinical practice. But emerging ambient speech technologies [...]
