Digital health
Technology‑enabled home healthcare pioneer celebrates ongoing expansion – easing NHS pressures and advancing preventative care across the UK MONDAY 12 MAY 2025, LONDON, UK: Cera, the UK’s leading digital-first home healthcare provider, today announces new milestones in its rapid expansion, as it continues its journey to transform healthcare through technology. Cera, which launched in 2016, [...]
The McDermott Will & Emery Team offer their key takeaways from MWE's recent European Health & Life Sciences Symposium in Paris In April 2025, we were proud to host the annual European Health & Life Sciences Symposium at the Shangri-La hotel in Paris. Attended by some 300 delegates from across the industry, participants including investors, [...]
Healthcare technology companies worldwide secured major investment this month, from seed rounds to strategic partnerships. Nigeria’s Platos Health raises US$1.4m for metabolic health platform Lagos-based Platos Health closed a US$1.4m pre-seed round to expand its AI-powered metabolic health platform, Platos 3.0. The raise highlights growing investor interest in Africa’s digital health sector, with support from [...]
Vandita Gauba, Senior Manager – Content Development, The Medical Travel Company, reveals what makes India the ideal choice for medical tourists worldwide. As private healthcare costs continue to rise and NHS services can face long waits, medical tourism has emerged as a viable and cost-effective alternative for patients seeking high-quality treatment without the excessive price [...]
We’ve gathered responses from leaders at a range of health tech suppliers to understand more about what the changes to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could mean for the future of connected care. NHS England’s recently published ICB model blueprint will see Integrated Care Boards (ICB) transition from a mixed operational-commissioning model to becoming strategic commissioners [...]
By John Tinson of Ilika Technologies Neurostimulation technology is a rapidly evolving field of medicine which has the potential to transform management of chronic pain, neurological disorders and psychiatric conditions. Implanted neurostimulation devices, such as spinal cord stimulators, deep brain stimulators and Vagus nerve stimulators work by delivering targeted electrical impulses to specific neural structures. [...]
Campaigners say more femtech companies are taking a stand against major tech platforms such as Meta, Google, Amazon and LinkedIn, over digital censorship. In March, six leading startups in the femtech space filed formal complaints with the European Commission over systemic bias and discrimination in content moderation by major online platforms. Led by advocacy [...]
A research team led by Professor Hyuk-jun Kwon of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), with integrated Master’s and Ph.D. student Hyungtae Lim as first author, has developed a “next-generation AI electronic nose” capable of distinguishing scents like the human olfactory system does and analyzing them using artificial [...]
By James Leitch, practice director, enterprise networking and security at Cinos Sustainability is quickly becoming a critical priority in healthcare. Hospitals, clinics, and medical facilities are some of the most energy-intensive environments, operating 24/7 to deliver vital care services. Whether it’s powering essential equipment, regulating temperatures for sensitive medications or ensuring appropriate lighting and air [...]
Parents of hospitalised children experienced significantly reduced anxiety after using virtual reality meditation programmes, a new study has found. The research, conducted at Stanford Medicine, showed that a short guided VR meditation lowered parental stress by around 30%, with Spanish-speaking families seeing particularly strong benefits. The team trialled the intervention at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital [...]
