Insight

  • Should we trust courier services to deliver essential medical supplies?

    We rely on couriers to deliver both organisations and people the goods they need. As individuals, we can experience issues with courier services, such as missed deliveries. They are not always as reliable as we hope, which leaves many questioning – should we trust courier services to deliver medical supplies? The health industry relies on [...]

  • How we raised £15m for our healthcare startup (what worked for us)

    Delphine Groll - Co-Founder & COO of digital care platform Nabla, reveals how she secured crucial £15m ($17m) funding, and how you can do the same for your business… In December 2017, just before Christmas, I received an email from a VC friend who wanted me to meet an entrepreneur -  who had just launched [...]

  • Creating the digital health workforce of the future

    How are trusts and health tech suppliers going to find the people they need to develop, deploy and optimise critical clinical information systems in the future? Highland Marketing’s advisory board invited Paul Rice from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to outline how he has been thinking about the challenge. The NHS is facing “the [...]

  • The health system will not be transformed by Amazon – but it will improve

    Just days ago, Amazon announced it would purchase One Medical in an all-cash $3.9 billion deal. People pay attention when Amazon – a power brand – makes a move, and since the release crossed the wires, business journalists and analysts have been reporting and posting on their social platforms that this acquisition will transform the [...]

  • Around the Health Tech World: Jamey Edwards

    Jamey Edwards is the Chief Operating Officer of StartUp Health, which was founded in 2011 to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, committed to achieving health moonshots. Jamey joined StartUp Health in 2022 to lead its efforts to support scaling digital health innovation across its own operations and the portfolio. 1) [...]

  • Where are all the women in AI?

    Only 22% of AI professionals in the UK are female, causing “persistent, structural inequality” in the field. So where are all the women? Artificial Intelligence will reshape every corner of our lives over the coming years. The AI sector in the UK alone was worth over £15 billion in 2020 - and it’s set to [...]

  • Revealed: Countries with highest levels of patient care and costs

    The quality and costs of healthcare systems around the globe has been revealed in a new report looking at 33 of the world’s most developed countries. As reported by Health Tech World, the NHS is rolling out tech solutions to help cope with record demand and massive shortages of staff and beds. But how does [...]

  • Around the Health Tech World: Erica Johansen

    Erica Olenski Johansen is a healthcare futurist who is passionate about imagining a future of healthcare that is family-centred, art-filled and tech-enabled. Throughout her career, Erica’s work has proven that personal branding, effective communication and online community management can spark connections, productive conversations, and meaningful industry change. She has led marketing strategy, corporate communications, business [...]

  • Technology-driven vs human-led treatment: What does the future hold?

    By Dr Angelica Kohlmann, founder of Bloom Diagnostics

  • Around the Health Tech World: Chris Rushworth

    Chris has worked in Digital Healthcare for over 25 years, originally as an NHS Web Developer and then moving to an operational role implementing patient choice. Chris later worked at Oracle Cerner on multiple solutions including NHS Choose and Book and the Cerner Millennium EPR.  He is currently the Head of Product for Doctor Care [...]