Opinion

  • Winter planning puts a new focus on virtual wards

    Winter planning puts a new focus on virtual wards

    Jill Ireland, the chief executive and clinical director of HomeLink Healthcare, welcomes NHS England’s early guidance on creating additional capacity and resilience this winter. Virtual wards will be an important part of the mix, and she argues commissioners should be looking to work with an expert partner to deliver them safely and effectively. NHS England [...]

  • Pharma’s connected health future

    Pharma’s connected health future

    The future of healthcare is digital and is happening right now. The growth of the digital health industry is now estimated at $175 billion and expected to grow to $1.5 trillion by 2030. And with more than 350,00 health apps available worldwide (and 70% of patient groups using at least one app to manage their [...]

  • Pathology and technology: developing together

    Pathology and technology: developing together

    Richard Craven, CliniSys UK and Ireland Managing Director, considers some of the big developments in pathology and how technology will help laboratories to confront current challenges while preparing for the future of personalised medicine. It is impossible to turn on the TV news or to click a headline on a newspaper website without hearing about [...]

  • The rise of wearable devices in healthcare

    The rise of wearable devices in healthcare

    By Dr Andrew Feeney, IEEE member and lecturer in Ultrasonics at the University of Glasgow

  • Prioritising choice for participants to enhance and accelerate clinical trials

    Prioritising choice for participants to enhance and accelerate clinical trials

    By David MacMurchy, CEO, Lightship

  • Are smartphone apps the key to spotting skin cancer?

    Are smartphone apps the key to spotting skin cancer?

    With increasing numbers of smartphone applications being created to assess the risk of someone developing skin cancer, Dr Iram Ashraf, dermatology tutor at online learning provider Learna, explores the benefits and pitfalls of an increasing reliance on technology. Since 2010, there has been a tremendous surge in the number of mobile phone applications which are [...]

  • Health tech gives the NHS an “opportunity for optimism”

    Health tech gives the NHS an “opportunity for optimism”

    Danielle Jefferies, analyst for The King’s Fund, offers her comment piece in response to Health Tech World's recent headline: NHS admits frightening backlog - can tech really fix this? - here's what she had to say... There’s no getting away from the significant challenges the NHS is facing at the moment. So, it’s no surprise [...]

  • How tech could reduce injury in youth sport

    How tech could reduce injury in youth sport

    By Damian Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Podium Analytics

  • Chemistry and digital chemistry: healthcare needs both

    Chemistry and digital chemistry: healthcare needs both

    By Nathan Brown, Director of Digital Chemistry, Healx

  • “It’s high time we equipped our clinicians with the tools they need”

    “It’s high time we equipped our clinicians with the tools they need”

    Dr Idris Harding, co-founder and CMO at Logitbox, speaks on how building “Strava for Doctors” empowers doctors and enables data driven transformation of healthcare. Our healthcare system is reliant upon a superb workforce of clinicians, dedicated in pursuing the expertise and experience needed to deliver the best in medical interventions and care. Every year, thousands [...]