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DigitalHealth.London and Cedars-Sinai Accelerators have announce a new partnership supporting international adoption of some of the US and UK’s best health tech companies. The partnership will allow patients in both the UK and US to benefit quicker from health tech innovations. It will also utilise the deep healthcare knowledge and networks held by both organisations [...]
An NHS trust has digitally transformed how staff safely manage complex medicines processes for two high risk antibiotics used in the treatment of new-born babies with potentially life-threatening illnesses. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, based in the North East of England, has used InterSystems TrakCare electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system to [...]
DigitalHealth.London, which supports the adoption of digital solutions across the health and care system, is reflecting on the impact its programmes have had over the last five years. To celebrate its fifth birthday, DigitalHealth.London has published Driving digital: Insights and foresights from the health and care ecosystem following a five-week conversation with NHS and social care [...]
Social care jobs marketplace Outt.com is developing an app to make it easier for UK social care staff to work where and when they want. CEO at Outt.com, Steve O’Brien, said the app will allow workers to choose their shifts, their rate of pay and when they get paid. Care workers will also be able [...]
PointClickCare will work with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide data to combat the threats impacting care home residents. Under the contract, PointClickCare will provide CDC with comprehensive de‐identified patient data for residents of long‐term and post‐acute care facilities. This data will be used to address public health priorities, allowing [...]
Medtech business Charco Neurotech, which develops solutions for people living with Parkinson’s, has announced a $10million seed investment round to support its continued development. The financing is the largest European seed round in 2021 and the sixth largest globally for healthtech devices, according to Pitchbook. Charco, an Imperial College spinout, has developed the therapeutic device [...]
Beginning today, the summit will see three days of insight and discussion around AI in medical and biological research
Research has identified a way of using nanoclusters to bolster waning antibiotics. Tiny particles of gold could be a new weapon in the fight against bacterial antibiotic resistance, research by an international team of scientists has revealed. Scientists have been investigating the use of gold nanoclusters, each made up of 25 atoms of gold, to [...]
International healthcare software solutions provider Dedalus Group has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Swiftqueue Technologies Ltd, a fast-growing cloud-native appointment and scheduling solution provider. The Cloud-native Swiftqueue solution enables patients and citizens to access healthcare services provided from hospitals, clinics and specialists through a digital front door. The software is extensively deployed [...]
Perfect Ward, the quality inspection app and digital platform for health and social care settings originally launched in the UK in 2015, is changing its name to Tendable to reflect the core values of its now global customer base. The change reinforces the company’s mission to create the easiest to use, most reliable quality improvement [...]
