Digital health
A new report from Virgin Media O2 Business has revealed that by 2030, 4.5 million people – 8% of the population – will remain digitally excluded from healthcare. To tackle the issue, it is launching its Care-ready Connectivity suite of solutions that will tackle this digital divide across the UK’s healthcare system. The Virgin Media [...]
In modern healthcare, accurate financial data holds immense importance – especially within NHS finance departments. This data serves as the foundation for efficient operations and strategic decision-making, influencing various aspects from budget allocation to patient care. Without it, the solid foundation to support important decision making in these areas can easily be lost behind fragmented, [...]
Reliance on legacy technology is among the biggest barriers to cybersecurity in health, according to a new poll of healthcare IT professionals. The research, in which 71 per cent of respondents admit to at least one data breach since 2022, suggests that almost two thirds of respondents are using outdated technology which hinders their efforts [...]
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is the latest large healthcare provider to go live with communication app, CardMedic. The trust-wide rollout to 7,500 staff follows a successful year-long pilot in the maternity department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Woolwich. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust delivers acute and community services to over one million people [...]
Dr Michael Watts, co-founder of Blüm Health, tells Health Tech World how he overcame a systemic resistance to change to bring new digital solutions to the NHS. Successfully rolling out new technologies within the NHS is no mean feat. But by navigating the complex regulatory landscape and fostering collaborations between NHS Trusts and the health [...]
Boston Scientific is enhancing cardiac care access in remote locations with an innovative digital solution. This technology empowers physicians to connect with Boston Scientific technical experts in real-time, regardless of geographical limitations. The solution connects doctors with peers or biomedical engineers located thousands of kilometers away. This real-time support proves invaluable during critical procedures. Regardless [...]
Holly Health is to partner with Loughborough University and the Modality Partnership, providing its multimorbidity digital self-management tool to hundreds of thousands of patients. The partnership has secured £447k from Innovate UK to develop a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) machine learning system with Loughborough University’s Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB) & Wolfson School [...]
Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with researchers at Central China Normal University, have developed a high-performance perovskite X-ray complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detector for medical imaging. X-ray imaging is vital for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and cancer diseases. Direct-conversion X-ray detectors made of semiconductor materials exhibit superior spatial and [...]
A DGIST-Stanford joint research team have successfully developed novel medical AI model based on federated learning. Professor Sanghyun Park at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST) has successfully developed the technology that can accurately segment body organs by effectively learning medical image data, which is [...]
Open Medical has announced the launch of its novel digital cancer management system, Pathpoint Oncology. Pathpoint Oncology is a modern, cloud-based cancer management software solution designed to streamline clinical and operational cancer workflows, including comprehensive MDT coordination, and provide a comprehensive database for cancer reporting. It is a future-proof solution that will scale and adapt [...]
