Digital health
Digital cancer care is playing an increasingly critical role in better supporting people during and after their treatment. Careology has developed a platform designed to help patients feel safe and well-equipped to manage their cancer treatment. It connects patients with their friends, family and healthcare teams, enabling remote care that can help transform the way [...]
Adam Young, director of sales engineering EMEA at LogicMonitor, explains how monitoring can help solve the challenges facing the healthcare industry. While the COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruption to industries across the globe, healthcare was arguably hit the hardest. Hospitals and care units had to adapt fast, pivoting to accommodate a huge influx of new [...]
NHS Lanarkshire is using a mobile app from Cambric Systems to provide accurate and secure mobile patient records to healthcare professionals in the community. NHS Lanarkshire is the third-largest health board in Scotland. It serves a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in Lanarkshire. The organisation employs around 12,000 staff working in communities, [...]
Changes to the way medicines and other health technologies are evaluated for use in the NHS are expected to be approved by the NICE Board today. The changes, if approved, will come into effect early next month for new evaluations and will give patients earlier access to innovative new treatments by allowing greater flexibility over [...]
DigitalHealth.London has announced the 21 digital health companies selected for its flagship Accelerator programme. The 21 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) selected for the Accelerator 2022 programme have digital solutions or services that have the highest potential to meet London’s NHS and social care challenges. From apps to AI, remote monitoring to telephony, and mental [...]
Health tech startup Field Intelligence is working collaboratively with African governments and community pharmacies to create an integrated, digital health supply chain African governments have struggled with severe COVID-19 vaccine wastage, with approximately 2m destroyed and pharmaceutical product wastage in the millions. Part of the issue is that 80 per cent of supplies are imported [...]
DexCare, a data-driven intelligence company focused on healthcare access, has announced a $50M Series B funding led by Transformation Capital. Derek Streat, co-founder and CEO of DexCare said: “Hospitals are moving to hybrid care and need a single solution to attract new patients and to connect them both virtually and in-person with their own caregivers. [...]
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) has gone live with Brigid, TPP’s new clinician app. Developed by SystmOne users, Brigid provides complete patient record access, a full suite of observations functionality, customisable patient lists and more. Pierce Devine, Mental Health Support Worker at CNWL said Brigid has proven to make daily tasks [...]
Odgers Berndtson’s Chris Hamilton and Mike Drew discuss some of the key health tech developments in 2021. Last year, health tech really came into its own. Private equity investment skyrocketed, with 2021 becoming a record year for health tech funding. Huge numbers of both established businesses and new entrants saw swift and successful growth. Data-sharing within the healthcare [...]
A UK government health app will be updated to include a ‘scan, swipe and swap’ feature which will use barcodes to encourage families to switch to healthier food. The new feature which was announced today (January 10) as part of the UK government's Better Health campaign, will allow users to scan shopping items and suggest [...]
