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The Health Tech World Awards 2026 will recognise the health innovators and innovations helping to transform outcomes across the globe. We are once again celebrating some of the best examples of leadership, innovation and impact spanning life sciences, medtech, digital health and beyond. The AI Innovation award recognises groundbreaking applications of artificial intelligence that are [...]
HIMSS 2026 hums with a familiar energy. Demonstration screens glow with dashboards and predictive models. Crowds gather around booths where engineers translate clinical complexity into algorithms. Artificial intelligence dominates the conversation – almost every conversation. Something important has shifted this year as more than 30,000 gather to discuss health technology, wow. The emphasis is on [...]
Novo Nordisk has dropped its lawsuit against Hims after the companies reached a Wegovy deal to sell branded weight loss medicines through the platform. Early last month, Hims & Hers said it was going to launch a cheaper, off-brand version of the weight loss pill Wegovy, just weeks after Novo Nordisk launched its reformulation of [...]
By Michelle Freer, transformation manager of the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership A central theme of the NHS 10 Year Plan is the long-overdue recognition that prevention should ultimately outweigh cure in delivering the strategy. For the city of Nottingham, it signals a decisive shift towards seamless, neighbourhood-based healthcare, where support is provided closer to people’s [...]
Women's health has historically been underfunded, under-researched and underserved. Femtech is changing that, one innovation at a time. But the companies driving that change often go unrecognised outside their own communities. This award exists to change that. The Femtech Company of the Year award celebrates an outstanding company dedicated to advancing women's health through innovative [...]
By Dr Constantin Jabarin, CCIO, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA) I’ve spent years working alongside my NHS clinical colleagues and operational leaders, and one theme is constant: documentation takes too much time and, with that, takes focus away from the patient. We clinicians often end up spending significant time writing notes, chasing documentation and [...]
The NIHR has awarded £2.31m to 24 chronic condition tech projects aimed at stopping a single long-term illness progressing into multi-morbidity. This funding will support the development of technology-assisted workforce solutions focused on preventing a single chronic condition from progressing to multi-morbidity, the presence of two or more long-term health conditions, in community, home and [...]
MiniMed began trading on Nasdaq on Friday after Medtronic's diabetes tech spinoff raised US$560m in its initial public offering. The company listed under the ticker "MMED" after offering 28 million shares at US$20 each. That was below the US$25 to US$28 a share range the company had suggested in filings last month. MiniMed [...]
By Dr Melinda Rees, CEO, Psyomics Spend enough time in the NHS and you stop flinching at the word "productivity”. You hear it in every strategy document, every board meeting, every government announcement. And almost every time, it means the same thing: do more with less. It's the wrong framing. After 25 years working in [...]
Four in 10 UK adults would use AI counselling, a global survey suggests, highlighting growing trust in ChatGPT for mental health support. The study, led by Bournemouth University, surveyed nearly 31,000 adults in 35 countries about their use of artificial intelligence large language models such as ChatGPT. It found that 41 per cent of participants [...]
