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Surgical Holdings is inviting healthcare professionals to join its upcoming free, CPD-accredited webinar, Back to Basics: Surgical Retractors, taking place on Friday, 20 March at 12:00 pm. Delivered as part of the Surgical Holdings Academy, the session is designed to provide practical, real-world insights into one of the most commonly used yet often overlooked categories [...]
Predictive Health Intelligence (PHI) and Sano Genetics have announced the completion of recruitment into the LiveWell study, with 996 participants enrolled from a single NHS site in less than a year. Delivered in partnership with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which supported clinical oversight and research delivery, and Tawazun Health, and supported by Innovate UK, the [...]
Microsoft is rolling out an AI health assistant designed to help people manage their health using their own medical data. The feature, called Copilot Health, works inside the company's Copilot app and can provide personalised health advice using a user's medical data, if they choose to share it. With permission, the tool can review information [...]
Healthcare is now one of the most targeted sectors for cyber attacks, with ransomware and data breaches threatening not just patient privacy but the stability of entire health systems. In the new episode of the Health Tech World Podcast, we speak with Afshin Atari, Director of Public Sector and Unified Platforms at Exponential-e, about how increasingly [...]
Digital health services are still failing people with the greatest health needs, with language, access and skills barriers limiting use, a World Health Organization (WHO) review has found. A scoping review led by WHO/Europe and Public Health Wales found that people with greater health needs and language barriers still struggle to use digital health services [...]
A cross-party group of MPs has launched a landmark report calling for sweeping reforms to vascular care in England, warning that thousands of people are losing limbs every year due to preventable failures in the health system. The Vascular and Venous Disease All-Party Parliamentary Group (VVAPPG) published its report, Making the Case for Reform in [...]
Scientists have made a significant step towards a blood test that detects brain tumours and monitors them in real time. The new test is 90 per cent accurate and could be used by GPs to pick up glioblastomas. It is also being expanded to include other types of brain tumour. The study, led by scientists [...]
Article produced in association with Spital Clinic and Jeen Health The Women's Health Strategy for England, published in 2022, identified significant gaps in how women's health needs are met across the life course. Among the issues highlighted were poor access to specialists, delays in diagnosis for conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS, and a healthcare [...]
Imprivata has introduced comprehensive new capabilities designed to help NHS organisations and UK healthcare providers meet the unique demands of the UK’s evolving compliance, cybersecurity, data protection landscape, including the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)-aligned Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) and Care Identity Service (Spine) Authentication. Imprivata Enterprise Access Management (EAM) now offers context-aware passwordless [...]
A new data layer for clinical research and real-world healthcare By Sanius Health Healthcare systems capture extraordinary volumes of biological data yet they consistently miss one of the most direct signals of health: how patients actually feel. Laboratory results, imaging, prescriptions, and hospital activity are measured in detail, but the patient’s own experience of improvement [...]
