News
Hospitals with higher empathy scores had better patient and staff outcomes, according to provisional research on NHS trusts in England. The study suggests trusts with higher empathy scores also spent less on agency staff, locums and consultants. Researchers created an empathy score for NHS trusts using publicly available information on organisational culture, leadership behaviour and [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a paper on how health AI could reshape policy-making, setting out both risks and opportunities. The paper examines how AI could affect the way health problems are defined, policy options are designed and the impact of decisions is assessed. It says AI could help policymakers analyse [...]
Semble has raised £30m to expand its care coordination platform for outpatient healthcare providers across the UK and Europe. The London-based health tech company secured €34.7m, equivalent to £30m, in a Series C funding round. Semble helps outpatient providers coordinate care and manage the patient journey, from bookings and clinical records to billing [...]
Alpha Tau Medical Ltd, developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT, and Tolmar International Ltd., one of the strongest commercial players in the U.S. urology, oncology, endocrinology and paediatric endocrinology markets, have announced a strategic collaboration agreement to develop and commercialise Alpha DaRT for the treatment of prostate cancer in the United States. [...]
By Dr Ed Hutchison, clinical solutions specialist, Altera Digital Health AI is now impossible to ignore. You cannot move without seeing some sort of AI advert promising a capability that is going to revolutionise your life. Need a new fridge? It better have inbuilt AI. Need to book a holiday? Why don’t you talk to [...]
Triomics, an oncology AI company helping cancer centres operationalise complex clinical information, today announced it has raised $22 million in Series B financing. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed and Y Combinator, alongside strategic backers Oncology Ventures and Precision Health Informatics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of [...]
Denver-based company Invi MindHealth has secured up to US$4m to analyse psychedelic-assisted therapy in veterans using wearable and app-based data. Invi measures the effects of psychedelic-assisted therapy on veterans by tracking signals such as heart rate, blood pressure and sleep quality before, during and after treatment. Earlier this year, the company was selected by the [...]
By Stephen Sutcliffe, director of innovation & technology solutions and finance & accounting, NHS Shared Business Services The NHS has no shortage of promising health technology. Pilots succeed, tools demonstrate value in individual teams, and there is rarely a scarcity of ambition. The harder challenge is what happens once the pilots conclude. Too many innovations [...]
Emergency medical service SAMU de Paris has achieved an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate four times the global average, through a rescue therapy called ECPR. Previously largely confined to hospitals, deployment on Paris streets has been supported in part with the help of handheld ultrasound technology and AR glasses from international health tech company Mindray. [...]
While clinical necessity remains the baseline requirement for advanced weight management, affordability has become the true dividing line for access. A new initiative is fighting back against the pricing crisis. It is one of the most frustrating paradoxes in modern American healthcare: the medications most capable of addressing the nation's metabolic health crisis are overwhelmingly [...]
