Insight
People working in digital healthcare have an opportunity, perhaps like at no other time in history, to use technology to change lives for the better, says Ezat Dayeh, senior systems engineering manager, Western Europe, at Cohesity The story is similar all across Europe. In Germany, the government introduced the Digital Health Care Act at the [...]
Through the use of AI, dementia can now be detected at an earlier stage, in quicker time and at a lower cost than ever before, with the added ability of remote use. Dr Sina Habibi, CEO of Cognetivity, tells Health Tech World about the team's groundbreaking work in redefining this area of healthcare
Designing the future of healthcare could become everyone’s responsibility. Making that happen will require a new education focus around artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and patients, write Jane Rendall and Rachel Dunscombe A crisis point could be on the horizon for NHS imaging disciplines. Rising demand and pervasive recruitment challenges mean there will be too [...]
As Matt Hancock criticises EPR suppliers for ‘locking data away’, Garry McCord, chief product officer at Servelec, discusses the commitment that needs to be made by the industry to join up healthcare Data sharing in healthcare is not a new idea and the term ‘interoperability’ is ubiquitous. Health tech companies consistently claim to be [...]
Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership wanted to find out how well it would stand up to a cyber-attack. So, it asked Gemserv Health to put together a scenario-based response exercise that started with some seriously bad news – but uncovered a lot of useful information. It’s 8am and it was a nice day [...]
Five digital health ideas that will help to make the leap.
In order to meet the challenges facing a post pandemic NHS, the digital transformation agenda needs to accelerate even faster, says Chris Barker, CEO of Spirit Health Group Digital transformation was at the top of the NHS agenda for this decade – one that has been accelerated by the plethora of digitally enabled ways of [...]
One year on from the height of lockdown and the launch of the Government’s Ventilator Challenge, Ramie Smith, senior director customer management – EMEA at Plexus, looks back at how its team in Scotland responded to a national call for ventilators in record speed. In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold, [...]
Each year in the European Union (EU), Norway and Iceland, 3.8million people get an infection in healthcare environments, according to the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC). It’s also estimated that, every year, 90,000 people die from avoidable infections gained in these settings. Here, Michaël van der Jagt, CEO at antimicrobial material specialist, Parx Materials, [...]
David Sygula, senior cybersecurity analyst at CybelAngel, assesses the risk of cyber attacks to health operators and how they can help safeguard from such a security breach Healthcare providers have long been a favourite target for callous criminals seeking an easy payday. Medical records are a favourite commodity in the cyber criminal community where they are bought [...]
