Opinion
How behind the scenes efficiencies impact frontline care - by Christine Hall, associate programme director, NHS NEP. NEP is the NHS and the NHS is our passion. Being the largest consortium in the English NHS has always been one of NEP’s valuable assets. We work collaboratively with all our members across a varying large group [...]
By Dr. Joaquin Azpilicueta of Exergen Corporation. Though the SARS, MERS and Ebola outbreaks each resulted in loss of life, they were restricted to a relatively small number of countries. COVID-19 has proved far more challenging to contain. No part of the world has managed to avoid the virus and its impact, making it the [...]
By Graeme Cox, CEO and co-founder of virtual reality tech firm emteq labs. The greatest promise that AI presents to human health is the opportunity to shift to personalised models of care, moving us from discussion of Life Sciences to a focus on Life Services - a refocus from cure to prevention, driven by data [...]
By Eva Martins, global head of innovation at Novartis AG AI is changing the way we live, the way we do business, the way we take decisions. There isn’t a single sector and industry that is not being affected and transformed. So how do leaders need to evolve in order to stay at the top [...]
Karina Malhotra, founder of Acumentice, explains why managing data correctly in the healthcare industry holds the key to Britain's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. As was widely expected, we seem to be heading backwards in an attempt to move forwards and out of the COVID crisis. Despite campaigns to get us to Eat Out to [...]
A clearer balance between primary care communications channels is now emerging from the pandemic. While there are new questions on practice phone costs and patient inclusion, the aim should be for an “omnichannel” approach, argues Paul Bensley, managing director of primary care communication specialist X-on. Several months into the evolving picture of pandemic-era primary care [...]
The global demand for pharmaceutical products has grown consistently since the turn of the century. Despite the growth in demand and market value, pharmaceutical manufacturing has by and large neglected many of the productivity and efficiency benefits presented by automation systems. Here, George Walker, managing director of pharmaceutical automation specialist Novotek UK and Ireland, explains [...]
A new fund launched last week to finance early-stage concepts in biopharma and healthcare. It was founded by Pistoia Alliance, a not-for-profit organisation that works to lower the barriers to innovation in life sciences and healthcare R&D. It aims to fund three to four new projects per year into research, prototypes, and proof of concepts [...]
Writing exclusively for Health Tech World, the global chief medical officer and SVP at Philips shares his views on the lasting changes COVID-19 will leave behind for the next generation of healthcare professionals. As the COVID-19 pandemic escalated earlier this year, my first reaction was concern for the people suffering from this terrible disease, and [...]
Martin Hodgson, head of UK & Ireland, Paessler AG on the importance of being on the front foot for healthcare IT. Following the rapid international transmission of COVID-19, private and public healthcare organisations have been put under intense pressure to protect the ill and vulnerable. COVID-19 has had the greatest impact of a virus in [...]
