Insight

By Colin Neale, Principal Business Development Manager at Wireless Logic The advantages of connected healthcare are now widely recognised. Medical devices that can transmit data in real time, remote monitoring tools that extend care beyond the hospital and digital platforms that connect clinicians with patients are continuing to transform the way services are delivered worldwide. [...]

Andy Flanaghan is CEO of Iris Telehealth, a telepsychiatry company operating across the US. The company recently launched it's Iris Insights tool which leverages AI to reduce behavioural health escalations and ensure patients get access to timely care. We spoke to Andy to get his thoughts on the challenges of working in behavioural health and [...]

By Pierre Gillet, vice president of international sales at BrightSign Technology is transforming healthcare by improving patient care and streamlining operations, with digital signage replacing outdated communication methods in hospitals and clinics. Far more than static screens, today’s digital signage systems are intelligent, adaptable tools that improve wayfinding, reduce patient anxiety, and deliver real-time, personalised [...]

Life Sciences Hub Wales’ 2024-25 Annual Report highlights how cross-sector collaboration is tackling real-world challenges and making a lasting difference to the health, wealth, and wellbeing of Wales and its people. Life Sciences Hub Wales exists to help propel inspiring life science innovations into frontline use in health and social care across Wales. As a [...]

By Steve Sanghera, co-founder and CEO, Inventus Group  The UK Government’s Life Sciences Sector Plan sets a clear ambition for the UK to be the best place to discover, test and scale new treatments. A £600 million investment in advanced health data infrastructure, commitments to cut red tape, and an NHS technology passport to roll [...]

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has taken a significant step towards a more digital future by rolling out electronic test ordering using Clinisys ICE. The trust deployed the order communications system to around 2,000 clinical users across all of its wards, the maternity and paediatrics units, the emergency and same day emergency care departments, and [...]

By Sanius Health Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) is often seen as one of the great success stories in rare disease, but the next chapter is only just beginning. With targeted therapies now enabling many patients to live longer and more stable lives, it can be easy to assume the major challenges are behind us. But [...]

By Mikael Kågebäck, Chief Technology Officer at Sleep Cycle, Ph.D. What if the sound of your breathing could offer an early clue that something in your body is changing? What if a restless night carried more meaning than just poor sleep? These are no longer speculative questions. They are part of a new frontier at [...]

Patients with chest pains and suspected heart attacks are benefitting from better informed decisions in a high-impact initiative led by clinicians, writes Dr Krishnaraj Sinhji Rathod, consultant in interventional cardiology at Barts Health NHS Trust. He explains the clinical, environmental, and efficiency significance of digitising electrocardiograms, and the opportunity to scale success more widely in [...]

A computer scientist's view on the problem, by Kevin Monk, CEO, SARD. Our Electronic Health Records are a mess. A caveat I don’t work in EHR. I’m a computer scientist who runs a workforce optimisation consultancy in the NHS. But I live next door to the EHR people and as a concerned neighbour I poke [...]