Digital health
By Sharon Lamb, Lorraine Maisnier-Boché, and Bella North, McDermott Will & Emory What new guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on anonymisation means for healthcare and life sciences companies. Harnessing health data is a key priority for life sciences companies as it enables more effective scientific research, better tailored clinical trials and investigations, [...]
Devon County Council has partnered with System C to deliver a major upgrade to its social care services, promising improved access and support for the county's 800,000 residents. Through the adoption of System C’s advanced Liquidlogic Adults Case Management and Liquidlogic Children's Case Management solutions, this strategic collaboration aims to create a more efficient and [...]
The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) is inviting UK HealthTech companies to join the ABHI UK Pavilion at WHX Cape Town 2025, taking place from 2 - 4 September 2025 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The event offers a unique platform for UK innovators to partner with African healthcare providers, distributors, and [...]
Patients and healthcare staff in west Wales are set to benefit from a digital system that will streamline prescribing in secondary services. Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) has selected Better as its preferred technology partner to deliver electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA), which will see the roll out of digital systems to replace [...]
Scientists have completed full-body scans of 100,000 people in what is believed to be the world’s largest body imaging study. The decade-long initiative has produced one billion anonymised images showing internal organs, blood vessels, bones and joints, which researchers can now use to explore how ageing and disease develop. Each participant contributed around 12,000 images, [...]
By Lily Spencer, EatMoreFruit Communications There is a huge opportunity for MedTech to help manage patient cases across the NHS, with a current median wait time for treatment standing at 13.8 weeks, almost doubling from 6.9 weeks in March 2019. Getting your tech in front of the right eyes within the NHS can be a [...]
A new wearable wristband can monitor glucose levels, blood pressure and other key health markers continuously, offering a more complete picture of diabetes and cardiovascular health. The device uses small, pain-free microneedles to sample interstitial fluid beneath the skin and measure glucose, lactate and alcohol in real time using embedded enzymes. It also combines ultrasound [...]
The NHS’s rollout of a revolutionary liquid biopsy test for lung and breast cancer is making headlines—and for good reason. By detecting tumour DNA through a simple blood draw, patients are now receiving targeted treatment up to two weeks earlier. It’s a breakthrough that marks a wider shift in cancer care: from one-size-fits-all treatments to [...]
A former Ernst Young (EY) corporate lawyer and founder of the French PCOS blog Les Natives, has raised €1.6 million in seed funding to help women suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Solence was founded by Clara Stephenson in 2022 with the mission to make personalised and patient-centric care available to all women with PCOS, [...]
A drug that could slow the progression of type 1 diabetes is being trialled by patients in the UK for the first time. Teplizumab, already approved in the US, works by training the immune system to stop attacking insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. It can delay the need for daily insulin injections by an average [...]
