Opinion

  • Modern infrastructure provides a shot in the arm for better medical care

    Harnessing AI, data growth and data protection is vital for enhanced patient care, writes James Norman, EMEA Healthcare Director, Pure Storage. Healthcare data has become fundamental to ensuring that medical teams can improve patient care and treatment. However, managing this unstructured data, which is stored in widely distributed silos and rapidly growing, is an increasing [...]

  • Putting right the wrongs of telehealth

    Terri Casterton of Bottle Rocket on how personalised tech-enabled care will shape the future of healthcare.

  • Solving the medical device supply chain crisis with probabilistic AI

    By Neha Puri, supply chain and logistics lead at Faculty.

  • Paperless homecare: creating an efficient culture of care

    With the demand for homecare continually rising, there’s a huge opportunity for homecare businesses to scale. However, it’s important to find the balance between prioritising growth and addressing the rising pressures facing carers to ensure team retention and long-term business success. Here Mike Williams, managing director of homeware software firm Tagtronics, considers the various benefits a paperless system can [...]

  • The future of prostate cancer treatment?

    Saheed Rashid, managing director, BXTAccelyon, on the latest advancements in prostate cancer treatment.

  • On the road to connected drug delivery devices

    Top three benefits and challenges, by George I’ons, head of product strategy and insights, Owen Mumford Pharmaceutical Service.

  • Goals of the connected patient network

    In today’s tech-driven, connected world, patients are turning to digital sources first for health information. Every day, tens of thousands of patients log on to online health communities to discuss their condition and share ideas. But people aren’t just searching for information; increasingly, they’re generating and sharing health data and knowledge online. And providers, health systems and [...]

  • How AI is changing cervical and breast cancer screening

    By Adrian Smith, general manager, Hologic UK and Ireland

  • Ageing innovation group announces new chair

    The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) has named David Weinkove as its new chair. Dr Weinkove is a biology of ageing researcher and entrepreneur and associate professor at the department of biosciences, Durham University. He is also CEO of Magnitude Biosciences Ltd. Dr Weinkove’s appointment comes in a booming era for ageing research, [...]

  • ProMIS appointment to drive biotech development

    Biotech firm ProMIS Neurosciences has appointed Dr. Cheryl Wellington to its scientific advisory board. ProMIS is focused on the discovery and development of antibody therapeutics, targeting misfolded proteins such as toxic oligomers implicated in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Cheryl Wellington is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), has [...]