Digital health
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 [...]
Brain+, has unveiled results from a seven-week pilot conducted as a Post Market Clinical Follow-up Study (PMCF) with Southcare Homes Group – showing that seven weeks of CST therapy delivered with Ayla improved cognitive outcome measures in residents by 47.8 per cent. Due to the success of the pilot, Southcare Homes now plans to roll out Ayla across the [...]
Alcidion has today announced the addition of three new appointments to their UK-based team, with one internal promotion and two external recruits. Dr Paul Deffley has been announced as the UK Managing Director, with Tracy McClelland and Darren Ransley joining as global Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) and Chief Revenue Officer (UK), respectively. Dr Paul [...]
By Paul Jarman, CEO, EatMoreFruit In an era of cutting-edge surgical robotics and AI-driven diagnostics, it’s tempting to believe clinical outcomes alone dictate the success of medical devices. But data tells another story: trust continues to be the single most important determinant of adoption. According to a 2024 McKinsey survey, 83 per cent of hospital [...]
Patients receiving care at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust are benefiting from a modern patient entertainment system that is providing important comfort during long hospital stays and helping to inform people about their care, whilst alleviating pressure on busy wards. The trust has worked with Airwave Healthcare to deploy the MyCareTV service, along [...]
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 [...]
By Jess O’Dwyer, General Manager Europe, Pocketalk When it comes to modernising the NHS, there’s no shortage of ambition. Yet, while plans, pilots and proposals make headlines, the intricacies of being innovative in the healthcare sector must be realised and the challenges of introducing that innovation must be addressed. Let’s take language [...]
NHS trusts in Cumbria and North East England have launched what is claimed to be the world’s first smartphone test for type 2 diabetes, cutting diagnosis time to under 10 minutes. The Diabetes Health Check app shortens diagnosis from months to less than 10 minutes, with a nationwide rollout expected later this year. The government [...]
ARC, the global healthcare transformation engine and innovation arm of the Sheba Medical Center, has announced a collaboration with Revealense, creators of a neurological-AI engine for analysing behavioural DNA in video footage. The collaboration establishes a joint venture focused on delivering an advanced neurological diagnostic solution. The joint solution will deliver precise, clinically validated diagnoses [...]
International law firm McDermott Will & Schulte advised Five Arrows Manager SAS (as sponsor) and Axis Arbor (as debt advisor) in connection with a financing made available by Morgan Stanley and McQuarie Group for the Sponsor's acquisition of Hublo. Hublo is a company focused on transforming healthcare by improving how human resources are managed within [...]
