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Sponsored feature London’s Coordinate My Care service sought to launch a new online care plan to the public to empower people with long term conditions, and people at the end of their lives, to share their wishes about the care they want to receive. Working in collaboration with Highland Marketing, the NHS service made its [...]
Health Tech World spoke to the CEO of Visionable about the impact COVID-19 has had on digital technology in healthcare and its future beyond the pandemic. Visionable is a collaboration platform designed for healthcare teams’ advanced clinical needs. The technology combines next-generation video conferencing with clinical imaging capabilities. Clinicians can monitor and consult with patients virtually, with all of [...]
A new partnership is applying artificial intelligence to find new disease drivers and candidate drugs for lung cancer. The Innovate UK-backed collaboration between Intelligent OMICS, Arctoris and Medicines Discovery Catapult is designed to de-risk future R&D projects and demonstrate new cost and time-saving approaches to drug discovery. Intelligent OMICS use in silico (computer-based) tools to [...]
The Virtual Northern MedTech Summit is set to launch with the aim of giving people the opportunity to hear from the leading experts in healthcare and technology from across the North and the UK. The summit, which will take place virtually on 28 January 2021, is being run by the National Institute for Health Research [...]
Elina Cadouri, founder and COO of credential verification specialist DOCK, spoke to Health Tech World about how blockchain technology can facilitate the release of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dock is a platform designed to provide a simple solution for businesses and developers to build, manage and present digital credentials that are instantly verifiable using blockchain technology. [...]
The new CEO of an NHS-approved digital rehab platform has spoken to Health Tech World about her plans for growth. Developed by chartered physiotherapists Carron and Lewis Manning, EXi is an app designed to encourage the prescription of evidence-based personalised exercise for managing or preventing up to 23 chronic conditions, helping address sedentary lifestyles and reduced mobility. [...]
Using AI, researchers have solved a problem that until now has been the stumbling block for important protein research into the dynamics behind diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as in the development of sustainable chemistry and new gene-editing technologies. It has always been a time-consuming and challenging task to analyse the [...]
US start-up, Lite Run has developed a rehabilitation system based on NASA-patented technology that has the ability to half patients’ bodyweight. The technology is based on the concept of ‘differential air pressure’; a theory that was originally explored by NASA to increase the body weight of astronauts while in space. LiteRun adapted this technology to [...]
Martin Hodgson, head of UK & Ireland, Paessler AG on the importance of being on the front foot for healthcare IT. Following the rapid international transmission of COVID-19, private and public healthcare organisations have been put under intense pressure to protect the ill and vulnerable. COVID-19 has had the greatest impact of a virus in [...]
Diana Jabbar-Lopez on rare diseases, patient data and how life science organisations can maintain compliance in the search for breakthrough treatments. There are thousands of rare diseases with often only a few hundred people worldwide diagnosed with a single condition. Finding enough patients who fit the right criteria for a rare disease clinical trial is [...]
