Insight
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 [...]
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 [...]
