Insight
Reducing paperwork in busy health and care setting removes potential contamination points. There is a good reason why almost every retailer has moved to contactless payments. It’s quick, clean, there’s no contact, and it’s more secure. Reimagining quality and health and safety inspections without paper provides similar paybacks. As well as removing a potential infection [...]
What lies ahead for the global pharma sector? Andrew Meade, Accenture UK&I Life Sciences lead, shares his insight with Health Tech World What sort of development do we expect for new commercial models for pharma in five years and what will it look like in 10 years? COVID-19 has been a watershed moment for innovation [...]
Graham Mills, co-founder and managing director of techspert.io, discusses the importance of digital opinion leaders in healthcare. Healthcare has a long history of working with experts to inform, influence and guide business and treatment strategies. It used to be relatively straight forward to identify these experts, or key opinion leaders (KOLs) – the right academic [...]
Medicine's Reliance on 40-Year-Old HIPAA-Inspired Policy and Dormant Tech- Stop Information Blocking.
Highland Marketing’s advisory board welcomed Jane Brightman, social care lead at Institute of Health and Social Care Management, to discuss the sector and its technology needs. A lot of hope is being pinned on integrated care systems, but when it comes to joining up health and care systems and putting the underpinning IT in place, [...]
A world-first in biosampling is helping to redefine the traditional way in which researchers in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry gather the biosamples they need. Through the creation of Biosample Hub, industry can find academic biobank partners to secure biosamples in a way which provides solutions to the traditional problems around biosample procurement. Recent research [...]
Writing for Health Tech World, Penny Pinnock, Sales Manager – Healthcare & Public Sector for Siemens Financial Services in the UK, examines the benefits arising from the adoption of digitalised technology in patient care and explores how healthcare institutions can leverage digital transformation through asset finance Ageing population and changing demographic trends put mounting [...]
As we look to the future of social care, Steve Morgan, partnership director at Agilisys, assesses what needs to be done at this 'digital tipping point' in time. Chronic underfunding, a workforce crisis, a lack of modernisation and the COVID-19 pandemic are all testing social care to the limits. As we emerge from the other [...]
NHS Nightingale hospitals were created at a remarkable pace in spring 2020. Could the impact of these field hospitals and new ways of working be long lived? Health Tech World discovers how one new way of managing crucial diagnostic images is already helping to solve bigger problems in other hospitals. When Barts Health NHS Trust [...]
Gavin Bashar, UK MD of Tunstall Healthcare, discusses how seniors can find the products, technology, and services aimed at helping them maintain their independence, age-in-place longer, and have a higher quality of life. It is vital to invest in assistive technology. Where users are older or vulnerable, assistive technology improves their quality of life while [...]
