Digital health

  • Digital innovation in wound care

    Hygiene and health firm Essity has launched a new digital solution for wound assessment. The mobile app records key wound characteristics, generates an assessment and helps healthcare professionals to select the appropriate wound product. Cutimed Wound Navigator has the ability to capture an image, from which wound measurements are automatically determined. The result of an [...]

  • Burton hospital to avoid discharge delays with patient flow technology

    Healthcare professionals at Queen’s Hospital Burton will be better placed to get patients home safely and as early as possible, whilst freeing up urgently needed capacity, with the help of a technology soon to be deployed. Following the success of the ExtraMed Patient Flow solution at Royal Derby Hospital, where staff have reduced lengths of [...]

  • Could computerised brain training reduce falls in older adults?

    The firm behind brain training app BrainHQ is working with the US government to measure the impact of computerised brain exercises on fall incidence in older adults. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a competitive grant to Posit Science, the maker of the BrainHQ brain training app. The newly-funded study will [...]

  • UK breakthrough for Swedish firm Doctrin

    Swedish health tech firm Doctrin has rolled its digital platform out into Britain with its first live UK client. Doctrin’s online and video consultation platform will be used by Lakeside Healthcare – a large partnership of GP practices in the Midlands, serving over 170,000 patients. Doctrin’s platform brings together digital consultations, care navigation and care [...]