Digital health
Healthcare professionals in the UK can from today freely tap into the Digital Health Academy's online training programme to be able to confidently use digital health technologies. The CPD-accredited course - the first of its kind in the UK - aims to build a digital-ready front-line healthcare workforce, as highlighted in the government's current NHSX [...]
An AI-enabled tool that can predict when heart attacks will strike has been devised by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. In tests, the tool accurately indicated which patients would experience a heart attack in five years, based on the amount and composition of plaque in arteries that supply blood to the heart. The [...]
The life sciences sector’s failure to adequately provide ‘connected health’ products and services to patients will prove a boon to Big Tech, according to a new report. Capgemini’s research reveals that, despite high ambitions, only a few life sciences organisations have the digital, technical and collaborative abilities to realise the potential of connected health. And less [...]
Neuroscience research has received a bounty over the past decade thanks to multidisciplinary collaboration and the dividends of digitalisation, say leading scientists in the field. Fifteen experts at the European Human Brain Project (HBP) claim the group is the first that 'systematically connects brain research, medicine and information technologies'. The HBP has brought together communities [...]
Health Tech World reports on how NOE CPC and its pioneering collaborative model is helping to support the NHS in driving technology developments. Public health has always had an insatiable appetite for new ideas and technologies; but this has intensified during the last two years, out of the pressure generated by the pandemic. For innovators [...]
Health Tech World reports on a European startup aiming to use Web3.0 to enrich the health and wellbeing of its users.
The global pharmaceutical industry is set to receive a timely fillip after China-based Triastek, Inc. and Siemens Ltd agreed to advance digital innovations for the sector. Drawing upon Triastek's 3D printing and digital pharmaceutical prowess and Siemens' bleeding-edge automation and digitisation technology, the pact is expected to help propel improvements in pharma manufacturing processes. The [...]
Incidental findings overlooked in medical imaging procedures harm millions of patients and cost untold legal fees and damages, claims a recent study. Northwestern Medicine in the US found that nationally health systems spend an estimated $43 million each year on lawsuits for missed follow-ups on lung findings alone. Delayed and missed referrals on incidental diagnostic [...]
Some of the world’s leading experts on autism have published a redesigned care pathway for autistic children, with digital health playing a key role in shaping earlier detection and closer family engagement. Published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, the new pathway created by an international team aims to improve the organisation of health [...]
Researchers have developed a smartphone app that can calculate users’ genetic risk for coronary artery disease (CAD)—and found that users at high risk sought out appropriate medication after using the app. In the study, the researchers detailed how their app called MyGeneRank inputs participating individuals’ genetic information from the 23andMe genetic testing company and outputs [...]
