Digital health
In today’s Health Tech World roundup, we bring you research updates, investment news and interviews from around the world. This week, Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, was found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud. Researchers developed a rapid prostate cancer screening kit that could provide early warning to populations with [...]
Hospify will close its communications platform at the end of January following the government’s decision to suspend relevant terms of the UK 2018 Data Protection Act. Hospify, founded in 2014, was created to provide secure, health-compliant messaging for health teams and patients throughout the UK and Europe. At the beginning of the pandemic, the government [...]
Remote consultation solutions provider eConsult said the UK government needs to invest in a digital triage system to get the right patients to the right point of care, unclog the healthcare system and increase efficiency. This comes after the Health and Social Care Committee published its report on clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic [...]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a Request for Information on how technology and innovation have been used to address barriers to care and health equity. In a Request for Information posted in the Federal Register, the OSTP has asked for input from community health stakeholders, technology developers, and [...]
After five years on the UK's board of NHS Digital, Professor Soraya Dhillon and Dr Marko Balabanovic have announced their retirement. Professor Soraya Dhillon and Dr Marko Balabanovic, non-executive directors of NHS Digital, both complete their final term as members of the NHS Digital Board on December 31 2021, concluding their five-year tenure. Professor Dhillon, [...]
The NHS App, which launched three years ago today (December 31), is one of the UK’s most downloaded apps, health bosses say. The app provides quick and secure access to a variety of digital health services as well as the NHS COVID Pass. NHS digital said more than 22m people have now signed up to [...]
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has achieved the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) stage six rating. The HIMSS EMRAM rating system is an international quality standard that measures the adoption and maturity of a health facility’s inpatient EMR capabilities from zero to seven, with stage seven being the highest [...]
Bowel Cancer UK has launched a mobile phone text-based support programme for people who have recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer. The charity said it is the first text message support service of its kind, developed specifically to help the nearly 43,000 people who are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year in the UK. Catherine [...]
The pandemic has pushed mental health demand ever higher while simultaneously making interventions more challenging. Enter the digital mental health pioneers racing to fill the gap. Mental health needs increased exponentially during the pandemic. In fact, by the middle of 2020, a fifth of people in Britain were reportedly suffering from depression, twice the number [...]
DiRx, a digital health company that sells FDA-approved generic medicines through its online pharmacy platform without the need for insurance, said it has raised $10m in Series A funding. Satish Srinivasan, founder and CEO of DiRx said the funding will continue to power the expansion and national market reach of its pharmacy model to more [...]
