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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s integrated care system has signed an eight-year contract with Orion Health to develop a shared care record for eight health and care organisations and all the GP practices in its area. The shared care record will take data feeds from the IT systems used by health and social care providers and create [...]
In October 2019, Google announced that its scientists had achieved quantum supremacy. The tech giant’s quantum computer had carried out a calculation that was beyond the capabilities of classical computing. Google estimated that the same calculation would take the best classical supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. The announcement elevated quantum-powered healthcare from the realms of [...]
Scientists have trained an AI neural network to detect anomalies in medical images to assist physicians in sifting through countless scans in search of pathologies. Image anomaly detection is a task that comes up in data analysis in many industries. Medical scans, however, pose a particular challenge. It is way easier for algorithms to find, say, a car with [...]
Clinithink’s advanced AI diagnostics technology has enabled clinicians at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, a world leader in the field of genomics, to perform the deep phenotyping of a critically ill five-week-old baby with an unknown condition within minutes to help identify his rare genetic disorder. A five-week old baby with a potentially [...]
An innovative teleradiology firm is aiming to deal with the worsening shortage of radiologists, amid an increasing demand for scans. Health Tech World spoke to Farzana Rahman, CEO of Hexarad, to find out more. An aging population, the Covid-19 pandemic and workforce shortages have led to a growing backlog in NHS radiology departments and, ultimately, [...]
Deborah Johnson reports on the DayOne Accelerator, Switzerland’s engine room of health innovation and enterprise As a globally-recognised centre of health tech innovation, the Basel Area is a key location for driving the sector forward, with its influence felt across Europe and, increasingly, the wider world. While digital-driven solutions are playing an ever-more central role [...]
UK biotech firm Iceni Diagnostics has appointed a new CEO as the company prepares to bring its products to market. Biotechnology entrepreneur, Martin Stocks, helped secure the founding investment in the pioneering glycoscience company seven years ago, and now picks up the reins with immediate effect. Dr Stocks spent a period at Yale University in [...]
Health tech influencers Gil Bashe and Stacy Hurt have joined the board of digital health firm Digital Salutem. Digital Salutem’s stated is mission is to make healthcare uncomplicated - by helping to change the way healthcare is accessed and delivered. It implements digital healthcare transformation quickly, “using best in class technologies and services”. Gil Bashe [...]
Health Tech World goes inside the mind of a health tech investor in an interview with Pierre Socha of Amadeus Capital Partners. Amadeus Capital Partners is a global ‘deep-tech’ investing firm based in Cambridge. Founded in 1997, the firm has since backed more than 180 companies and raised over US$1bn. It focuses on several industries, [...]
In his latest Reluctant Entrepreneur column, Dr DJ Hamblin-Brown looks at health tech enterprise through the lens of Cal Newport’s influential book. Assuming that you’re trying to run a business, you’ll be presented with a number of problems. The most ubiquitous of these is a lack of time. Good quality time to get things done. [...]
