Diagnostics
More than six million tests, scans and health checks have taken place at community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across the country, helping speed up diagnoses and treatments for NHS patients. A total of 6.1 million checks were carried out at CDCs as of November 2023, after being first introduced in July 2021. Based in a variety [...]
Hundreds of thousands more people will be sent a home-testing kit that can help to detect signs of bowel cancer, the NHS has announced. The health service is expanding its lifesaving screening programme to individuals aged 54 in England. People aged 54 will now automatically be send a home test kit every two years by [...]
NHS patients with suspected skin cancer would rather be assessed by AI than wait weeks for in-person appointments, research from a UK med tech company has found. Skin Analytics has published findings from a new research paper on its AI medical device DERM, which to date has assessed more than 53,000 patients for skin cancer in [...]
TidalSense has announced a project which launched in October with leading lung charity Asthma + Lung UK, international research-focused biopharmaceutical and healthcare group Chiesi Limited, Hull York Medical School and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, in a bid to address the current COPD diagnostic crisis. The organisations aim to find innovative diagnostic solutions that [...]
Aston University and The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital have been awarded a joint research fellowship to develop a working 3D model of the spinal cord, to improve understanding of the management of compressive spinal cord pathology. The fellowship is funded by Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK), the British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS) and the British Scoliosis [...]
Researchers in Saudi Arabia have unveiled a tool that could aid in the diagnosis of rare diseases. The method, named STARVar, leverages a diverse range of data sources — including background information from the scientific literature, genomic information from DNA sequence reads and clinical symptoms from individual patient records — to precisely identify genetic variants [...]
Health Tech World sits down with Glyconics CEO, Dr Kam Pooni, to hear about the affordable, portable and environmentally sustainable future of diabetes screening. 530 million people across the world live with diabetes. That is one in every 10 adults. The sharp rise in the condition’s prevalence in recent decades is often referred to as [...]
An AI healthcare company creating the future of personalised prostate cancer care has received 510(k) clearance by the FDA. What’s in store for Its cancer management platform? AI platform iQuest (Avenda Health) may produce more precise imaging of prostate cancer, which is beyond current traditional capabilities of MRI. The cancer management platform has now received [...]
There could be a “paradigm shift” in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, with breakthrough tech set to help 150,000 UK citizens in 2023. Thousands of people with Parkinson’s Disease may soon benefit from “breakthrough” technology which experts claim could lead to a “paradigm” shift in treatment. NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, [...]
Who is having a real impact on healthcare and digital health? Which innovations will positively affect healthcare in 2023? Here’s the Health Tech World longlist of some of the most prominent names in the space… 1- Intuition Robotics | Israel Intuition Robotics is on a mission to empower older adults to live happier, healthier and [...]
