Insight
By Steve Barnett, VP for healthcare at C2-Ai, and NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow
Highland Marketing advisory board member Natasha Phillips led a discussion on nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals, and the skills and competencies they will need to lead and thrive in a digitally-enabled healthcare system. “If the NHS is going to become more productive, we need to put the nursing and midwifery workforce at the heart [...]
Icelandic firm Sidekick Health is on a mission to harness digital health advances to enable personalised care at scale, as HT World reports. In healthcare today, many patients are treated with a one-size fits-all approach and treatment is most often given after the fact rather than being preventative. However, a significant amount of patients live [...]
Infection solutions company ActivePure is aiming to revolutionise how environments from hospitals to elite sports facilities stay clean with its air purification system that harnesses NASA space technology, as Stephanie Price reports. Covid-19 has put the spotlight on infection control, with hospitals and public spaces ramping up efforts to stay clean. At an innovation event [...]
New Zealand is no stranger to health tech innovation – from co-discovering the molecular structure of DNA to inventing the disposable syringe. Today, its health tech industry continues to lead the way with groundbreaking healthcare solutions to make tomorrow a better day for people globally. For instance, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare helps over 14 million [...]
Health Tech World hears from mySysters app co-founder Cindy Moy Carr about her experiences as a health tech leader How would you describe the work that you do? I help women navigate perimenopause and menopause. That’s the core purpose of mySysters. The app has a symptom tracker that shows the days when the symptoms are [...]
Waiting times are now one of the biggest challenges for the new government and NHS, with ~7.6 million patients waiting for Acute and ~1.5 million for Mental Health Services. To tackle the pressing issue of escalating waiting time challenges, Sanius Health have used an innovative approach leveraging artificial intelligence to collect and analyse public social [...]
Dr Adrian Owen is a renowned neuroscientist and university professor. The reseacher is best known for his discovery that some patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are fully aware and able to communicate using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Dr Owen is now Chief Scientific Officer at Creyos - a company aiming [...]
By Patent Attorney, Dr Jennifer Bailey and Trainee Patent Attorney, Louis Campbell, HGF
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is a combined acute and community trust providing services at Rotherham Hospital and across the borough to a population of 264,700 people. The Trust had been using Imprivata Enterprise Access Management (formerly OneSign) since 2015 for single sign on, so staff were familiar with tap and go for accessing patient [...]
