Digital health
Leeds has launched a trial of a remote monitoring technology to understand how it can support older adults to live in their own homes and reduce the number of visits to the doctors or hospital. The Integrated Digital Service, which sits across both the NHS West Yorkshire ICB and Leeds City Council, has joined forces [...]
Sensors in smartphones and smart speakers could help determine a person’s level of alcohol intoxication based on the changes in their voice, US researchers have learned. Researchers at Stanford Medicine and the University of Toronto conducted a small study of 18 adults ages 21 and above. Participants were given a weight-based dose of alcohol and [...]
The partnership aims to improve outcomes through better patient education, reminders and other patient engagement techniques Digital health company, Huma Therapeutics and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has today announced a partnership to develop a digital solution that aims to help cancer patients better understand and manage their conditions and treatment. The Cross-Indication Disease Management Platform [...]
More than 2,200 people in high-risk communities have been newly identified as being at risk of life-threatening liver cancer thanks to NHS roaming liver trucks across the country. Under a major NHS drive to catch more cancers earlier and save more lives, 12 on-the-spot liver scanning trucks have been touring 18 areas of England. The [...]
Global engineering and consulting firm Mott MacDonald and clinically-led digital health company Open Medical have announced a new partnership that will provide cutting-edge digital solutions and comprehensive digital transformation consultancy to Integrated Care Systems (ICS). Building on Open Medical's Pathpoint, the partnership will enable a more holistic view of healthcare processes and patient pathways, address [...]
The FDA plans to establish a digital health advisory committee to help the regulator keep up with a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The FDA is seeking expertise from industry experts as it looks to form a new committe that will help the regulator contend with the rapid development of new technologies, including AI, virtual reality [...]
At first glance, Tricorder.Zero appears to be yet another fitness app in an increasingly saturated market. But far from it, says founder Dr Marcus Soori, the platform is taking health and fitness tracking to a whole new level. The man behind Tricorder.Zero, Dr Marcus Soori, was still in medical school when the seed of the [...]
By Dr Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy
A webinar supported by Buddy Healthcare explored the potential of its digital platform with clinical leaders from Scotland and Finland. The platform, which supports a patient app and automated information and communication tools, can be used to improve convenience for patients, streamline pre- and post-op processes, and make best use of scarce clinical capacity as [...]
An app driven by AI can run on a tablet to accurately screen for autism in children by measuring and weighing a variety of distinct behavioural indicators, researchers in the US have demonstrated. Called SenseToKnow, the app delivers scores that evaluate the quality of the data analysed, the confidence of its results and the probability [...]
