Interviews
Around one in seven couples have trouble conceiving, yet many struggle to access fertility treatment on the NHS. Alongside strict criteria dictating who can access treatment, candidates face a postcode lottery, with many forced to go private at a cost of £5,000 or more for a single round. UK-based Béa Fertility is working to democratise [...]
Gil Bashe is a health advocate connecting the dots to transform biopharma, digital health and healthcare innovation. He is Managing Partner, Chair Global Health and Purpose at international communications agency FINN Partners, a MM&M Top 50 Health Influencer and Top 10 Innovation Catalyst. Gil is Medika Life editor-in-chief and hosts the HealthcareNOW Radio show Healthunabashed. He is privileged to write for Health Tech [...]
Louise Chang is the global vice president of clinical solutions, content strategy and partnerships at health information and analytics company Elsevier Health. The company's mission is to help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. But what does that mean in practical terms? Health Tech World spoke to [...]
Liz Ashall-Payne is the founding CEO of ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps. ORCHA is one of the world's leading digital health evaluation and distribution organisations. In the UK, it reviews digital tools for NHS Digital and NHS providers in 70 per cent of regions. 1) What is your morning [...]
People infected with both COVID-19 and flu are four times more likely to require ventilators than those with Covid alone, a recent Lancet study showed. The authors concluded that hospitalised Covid patients should be tested for flu to identify those at risk as well as patients who may respond differently to immunomodulatory and antiviral therapy. [...]
HT World talks to the healthcare influencer who put everything on the line for patient advocacy on her mission to deliver change on many fronts. Putting patients first is a critical requirement of any healthcare professional. But how many would risk the entire career they had worked tirelessly to establish to do so? Dr Kellie [...]
Health inequalities is a much bandied about term - and means different things to different people. But what is glaringly evident are woeful discrepancies in the diagnosis and treatment of type-2 diabetes, especially amongst minority ethnic patients. Cold, hard facts are, as always, powerfully persuasive. Consider these, for example: There are 9 million people living [...]
Devmalya Sarkar speaks to Caroline Barry about the outlook for digital health and the need for contextually-relevant innovation. Devmalya (Dev) Sarkar is a health tech and digital health innovation strategist, passionate about solving unmet needs through empathic and meaningful innovation. He has served on the board of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) USA’s India chapter [...]
Health Tech World reports from Switzerland’s vibrant healthcare innovation scene in conversation with Olivia Zollinger, CEO and board-member of Swiss Healthcare Startups. Stable political and economic conditions, a strong financial climate and one of Europe’s highest living standards are among the many attractions of Switzerland to health tech entrepreneurs. Other draws are the spirit of [...]
Norman Niven on disrupting the system and shaping the future of health tech How did you become a CEO and start your successful career? I developed a pharmacy from scratch where I had to conjure up new ideas to get business coming to me. I was the first to have a delivery van in the [...]
