Medtech
Better Meds and BD have partnered to integrate BD Pyxis automated dispensing cabinets (ADC) with Better Meds’ electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system, ensuring safer and more efficient medication administration than manual processes on hospital wards in collaboration with University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Hospitals increasingly rely on ePMA systems like Better Meds to [...]
The NHS expects robot-assisted techniques to be used in nine out of 10 keyhole operations within the next decade, up from around one in five today, as part of plans to cut elective care waiting times. Robotic surgery allows surgeons to control precision instruments using a console with a 3D camera, offering greater dexterity than [...]
Spinal surgery has long been one of the most demanding fields in modern medicine — where fractions of a millimetre can define the line between relief and long-term dysfunction. For decades, surgeons have worked under significant constraints: visualising deep structures through small incisions, correcting deformity in delicate regions, and placing instrumentation by feel and fluoroscopic [...]
MedTech Innovator has selected 65 startups for its 2025 accelerator, choosing just four per cent of applicants from a global pool of nearly 1,500. The four-month programme supports early and mid-stage medical device, diagnostic, and digital health companies, which will now compete for a share of US$800,000 in non-dilutive funding. This year’s cohort includes companies [...]
Medtronic has announced a new strategic partnership with Corsano Health B.V., a MedTech company specialising in advanced real-time remote patient monitoring solutions. Medtronic will exclusively distribute Corsano Health’s cutting-edge solution in Western Europe for hospital and hospital-at-home use, enhancing remote monitoring capabilities and transforming patient care across healthcare settings. Additional terms of the agreement were [...]
An American engineer and his team have devised a simple device using specially designed floss that can easily and accurately measure cortisol, a stress hormone, in real time. Chronic stress can lead to increased blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, decreased immune function, depression, and anxiety. Unfortunately, the tools we use to monitor stress are often [...]
Diagnostic imaging professionals across the NHS are being urged to help shape the next generation radiology information system by detailing their needs. Also known as the RIS, the core technology is used across the health service to provide service intelligence, schedule scans, and to report on patient images. The call to contribute ideas comes as [...]
Ergéa UK, a vendor-neutral provider of Managed Equipment Services (MES), has published a comprehensive white paper exploring how modern MES solutions can help expand patient access to radiotherapy across the UK. Titled “Radiotherapy MES: A Planned Long-Term Solution to the UK Radiotherapy Crisis,” the paper outlines how a radiotherapy MES provides a structured, funded, and [...]
The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) has announced that only a handful of exhibition stands remain for WHX Dubai 2026, taking place 9–12 February at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City Dubai. The 2025 edition attracted more than 70,000 attendees from 180 countries, bringing together an audience that included senior hospital practitioners, healthcare executives, manufacturers [...]
Gabriel Jarvis, Consultant at EatMoreFruit Communications, reveals why strategic communication is key to future-proofing EU healthcare Communication as the catalyst for resilience and sovereignty By Gabriel Jarvis, Consultant at EatMoreFruit Communications Europe’s healthcare systems stand at a tipping point. Faced with a collision of escalating threats—from antimicrobial resistance and chronic disease to geopolitical disruption and [...]
