Medtech
Smartphone pictures of post-surgical wounds taken by patients and then assessed by clinicians can help with the early identification of infections, a study has found. Researchers discovered these so-called ‘surgery selfies’ were linked with a reduced number of visits to GPs and improved access to advice among patients who took them. Professor Ewen Harrison, professor [...]
UK healthtech firm Forth has secured £1.6m funding to support the launch of its female health product. Launched in 2016, Forth offers personalised biomarker tracking. Starting with a small sample of blood, it provides data about the body’s biochemistry. Forth’s investment round has attracted backing from UK and overseas investors including, Trajan Scientific and Medical, [...]
Swansea University Medical School’s Healthcare Technology Centre has announced a research collaboration with sensor and medical diagnostic company Zimmer and Peacock. A spokesperson for the university said the three-month research project will deliver on the knowledge transfer regarding immobilisation of aptamers for screen printed sensor development. This work will increase the choice of off-the-shelf sensors for initial research [...]
Dr Andy Davies, commercial director at Mackwell Health, explains why healthcare professionals need widespread access to the highest grade respiratory protective equipment (RPE). Aside from all the business and economic impacts of COVID-19, the virus has been relentless with millions of people affected globally. The World Health Organisation estimated in May 2021 that at least [...]
Systems include real-time patient monitoring and more efficient patient flow management. As the NHS in all four nations continues preparations to manage winter clinical pressures, two NHS trusts have accelerated deployment of modules of their smart Electronic Patient Record Systems (EPRs), aimed at further improving patient safety in busy clinical settings while introducing efficiencies to [...]
Crichton Central in Dumfries, Scotland, hosted the world’s first 5G to 5G holographic 3D video chat demo and gatecrashed a meeting between Gwilym Gibbons from The Crichton Trust and Graeme Harrold from Nokia. The 3D videoconferencing system was showcased during Cop26, from the 5G hub in Crichton Central in Dumfries in the South of Scotland, [...]
Digital health innovators Atos and Huma will share their remote patient monitoring system with the Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre (SUHRC), a constituent of Symbiosis International University (SIU), in Pune, India. A spokesperson for Huma said the system, which uses smartphone technology, a pulse oximeter and includes a portal for clinicians, will allow the [...]
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidelines recommending that flash glucose monitoring or continuous glucose monitoring be made available for all adults with type 1 diabetes in the UK. The guideline also suggests that all children living with type 1 diabetes should use continuous glucose monitoring. Diabetes UK said [...]
A sugar-containing polymer coating could one day help repair artificial joint implants when they are damaged through wear and tear, research has found. An international team of scientists, including from York and Durham universities and Tsinghua University, China, has developed the technique for easily repairing low-friction surfaces. Taking their inspiration from the way cartilage works [...]
Campaigners say a planned review into the health impact of potential bias in medical devices is unlikely to explain the disproportionate number of deaths of Black, Asian and minority ethnic people. The UK's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will launch an independent review into potential bias of items, such as oxygen measuring devices, [...]
