Digital health
By Liam Canavan, Healthcare Lead at Loadbalancer.org Liam partners with medical imaging providers and hospitals worldwide, building strategic alliances and using cutting-edge technology to tackle tough data storage problems and ultimately enhance patient care. The ARPA-H INDEX programme and DPA have outlined a broad digital strategy for pathology, yet simultaneously acknowledge that infrastructure shortfalls are [...]
Aidoc has raised US$150m to expand CARE, its clinical AI platform that helps doctors make faster, more accurate medical decisions at the point of care. The funding round was led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, with support from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and four major US health systems: Hartford HealthCare, Mercy, Sutter Health [...]
By Julia Scott, pharmacist and CxIO at Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, digitalisation is no longer a distant goal, it’s a burning platform. At Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, the implementation of our electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system, Better Meds, was not just a technological shift; it was [...]
Better and Speeds Healthcare, an outsourced medicines management provider to the independent sector, have finalised an agreement to roll out the Better Meds solution across 55 mental health sites in the UK. The strategic partnership will see services move from manual recording on paper charts and whiteboards to streamlined, electronic prescribing and medicine administration (ePMA) [...]
Blue Longevity Clinic has raised €2m to expand its longevity medicine clinics in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, supported by proprietary diagnostic protocols and digital tools. The Sofia-based healthtech provider plans to open centres in Sofia, Athens and Istanbul in September this year, offering services aimed at extending healthspan — the number of years lived in [...]
East of England Ambulance Service has become the first in the UK to offer live video guidance for 999 callers reporting cardiac arrests. The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) will use live video to help bystanders perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) — chest compressions and rescue breaths to restart the heart — following a [...]
By Sanius Health The treatment landscape for multiple myeloma is changing fast, and for the better. For patients who have relapsed or exhausted their options, there is now a renewed sense of hope. Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapies (CAR-T) and bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) are transforming outcomes in ways that were once unimaginable. Trispecific antibodies (TsAbs) are [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of health technology. Partnership to revolutionise treatment of liver tumours Proximie - a health technology platform digitising operating rooms - has announced a partnership with HistoSonics, the manufacturer of the Edison Histotripsy System1 and novel histotripsy therapy platforms used for non-invasive treatment of liver [...]
Patients in the UK will gain faster access to medical devices approved in trusted countries under new plans from the medicines regulator MHRA. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has outlined steps to streamline routes to market, including a planned consultation on the indefinite recognition of CE-marked devices – those meeting European safety standards [...]
The new NHS National Rehabilitation Centre will deploy technology to help patients to maintain their independence as they recover from life-changing injuries and illnesses and regain quality of life. Airwave Healthcare has been selected to equip bedrooms at the new centre with ‘intelligent bedside terminals’ – iPads that will provide much more than the entertainment [...]
