Insight
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 [...]
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 [...]
