Diagnostics
A digital alert system to identify patients who are at risk of sepsis can reduce deaths and extended hospital stays, Imperial research has found. The alert system, which was trialled at at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) hospitals, monitors a range of infection responses in patients, such as body temperature changes and increased heart [...]
A new test for prostate cancer could be 'pivotal' in providing a more accurate diagnosis, easing the suffering of patients and saving lives, researchers say. Lead academic Professor Ihtesham Rehman, chair in Bioengineering at Lancaster University, has previously investigated using Raman spectroscopy to identify various cancers. He believes the tool could be transformative in diagnosing [...]
Open Medical has launched its Pathpoint platform at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH). Pathpoint captures real-time granular structured clinical data which is integrated with the eRS national referral system to allow the trust’s clinicians to enhance the referral triage processes. This ensures patients are reviewed in a timely manner regardless of where [...]
A cyber security researcher identified, and helped fix, flaws in a COVID-19 home test that would have allowed users to falsify their results. Ellume’s COVID-19 home test is a self-administered antigen test that has received emergency use authorisation in the US. Instead of submitting a sample to a testing facility, users collect a nasal sample on [...]
Senior lab teams operating under significant, increasingly acute, pressures view acceleration in automation as key to the future, research has found. Forty senior people working across UK labs were surveyed by Automata on their current challenges and views. The poll found that automation is seen as a solution to relieve existing pressures, improve day-to-day capacity [...]
Alex Sheppard and Dr Mona Kab Omir founded the successful KnowNow Spike Protein Infectiousness test which is UK developed, patented, designed and manufactured. They were founding members of the UK Government’s Project Moonshot COVID-19 recovery team and have set up the health tech company Vatic. Health Tech World spoke with the founders as they prepare [...]
Covid-19 testing firm Randox has agreed to improve its terms and conditions to avoid breaching UK competition laws. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) raised concerns with Randox, a PCR test provider at the centre of a government lobbying row, about some of its terms and conditions. The CMA said the firm, which is based [...]
Public Health Wales is using Seegene’s assays to help with the nation’s fight against COVID-19. Seegene’s Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2 Master Assay is a new PCR test that screens for COVID-19 whilst simultaneously discriminating Omicron from Delta strains in a single tube. Public Health Wales is leading the way in the nation’s fight against Covid where Seegene’s [...]
AcuPebble SA100, a small wearable device that enables automated, remote home testing to detect obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in adults, has obtained FDA 510(k) clearance as a Class II medical device in the USA. AcuPebble provides an instant diagnostic sleep test result that is equivalent in accuracy to cardiorespiratory polygraphy, which requires time consuming clinical [...]
A major Dublin teaching hospital will roll out order communications and results reporting as part of a digital transformation project. The development will enable phlebotomists to collect blood and order tests at the patient bedside, improving efficiency and safety One of Ireland’s largest acute teaching hospitals has rolled out order communications and results reporting from [...]
