Digital health
Short animations known as GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format) can improve the sleep of female professional footballers, new research has found. Poor sleep quality is common among elite athletes, with sleep environment and bedtime routine often to blame. Many professional athletes look to sleep coaches to help improve their sleep, which can have a big impact [...]
The Highland Marketing team share their learnings from last week's HETT North show. For more than 140 years, the vaulted arches of historic Manchester Central have represented strength and innovation, originally as the site of one of the country’s key rail stations. Then in more recent history, growth and regeneration. With the ongoing reset of [...]
Millions of patients across London will now receive improved, personalised healthcare as part of a major expansion of the Universal Care Plan (UCP), a shared care planning solution powered by Better. This milestone marks a significant step towards a more holistic, personalised approach to healthcare planning, ensuring patients receive coordinated care that aligns with their [...]
A respiratory digital therapeutics toolkit is improving outcomes and reducing health inequalities for people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Wales. The toolkit, which has reached full adoption across 100 per cent of GP practices and hospitals in NHS Wales, is providing a personalised, digital care plan that empowers hundreds of thousands [...]
A new survey conducted by the StuffThatWorks platform has collected patient-generated, crowd-sourced Real World Data for clinical research - revealing significant barriers to clinical trial recruitment. StuffThatWorks is a crowd-sourced patient-centric real-world data for the medical and research community, having 3 million members across 1,250 conditions. The platform provides detailed patient information, providing an environment [...]
The simple text message has emerged as a potential antidote to cancer patients' "time toxicity" - the detrimental amount of time spent commuting to, waiting for and receiving treatment. In recent years, researchers have worked to quantify the disproportionate level of time cancer patients spend on their treatment, which can also include picking up prescriptions, [...]
Digital health tools such as apps, telehealth services and wearables are transforming healthcare by increasingly accessibility and helping people to better engage with their health. Fueled by Covid lockdowns and the health tracking trend, digital health tools are increasingly relied upon by public health systems including the NHS. This week has seen an escalation in [...]
A group of 211 international experts from 79 countries has published a new framework to facilitate the design, development and implementation of digital health curricula in medical education worldwide. The Digital Health Competencies in Medical Education (DECODE) framework is designed to help medical institutions better equip future physicians for the ongoing digital transformation in healthcare. [...]
New guidance impacting on developers of digital mental health technologies have been launched in the UK market. The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued new guidance to help manufacturers meet UK medical devices regulations and ensure digital mental health technologies are "effective, reliable and acceptably safe". The guidance is aimed at [...]
Health tech startup Quibim is closing in on its goal to take precision medicine to the next level via advanced imaging technology after a US$50m fundraise. The Spanish enterprise’s long-term ambition is a system in which clinicians can gain a non-invasive understanding of every tissue point in the human body, at any moment in time. [...]
