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Hygiene and health firm Essity has launched a new digital solution for wound assessment. The mobile app records key wound characteristics, generates an assessment and helps healthcare professionals to select the appropriate wound product. Cutimed Wound Navigator has the ability to capture an image, from which wound measurements are automatically determined. The result of an [...]
A global alliance of life science organisations has set out a new plan to address changing needs in the sector amid a rapid acceleration in digital transformation. The Pistoia Alliance is made up of life science firms, tech and service providers and academic groups working to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare [...]
Healthcare professionals at Queen’s Hospital Burton will be better placed to get patients home safely and as early as possible, whilst freeing up urgently needed capacity, with the help of a technology soon to be deployed. Following the success of the ExtraMed Patient Flow solution at Royal Derby Hospital, where staff have reduced lengths of [...]
Medtech firm Glyconics has appointed internationally renowned diabetes expert Dr Päivi Paldánius as its first Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The move comes as it prepares to progress to its next clinical phase before embarking on a Series A funding round next year. Glyconics exploits the ability of Infrared light to produce distinctive molecular ‘fingerprints’ for [...]
The firm behind brain training app BrainHQ is working with the US government to measure the impact of computerised brain exercises on fall incidence in older adults. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a competitive grant to Posit Science, the maker of the BrainHQ brain training app. The newly-funded study will [...]
Swedish health tech firm Doctrin has rolled its digital platform out into Britain with its first live UK client. Doctrin’s online and video consultation platform will be used by Lakeside Healthcare – a large partnership of GP practices in the Midlands, serving over 170,000 patients. Doctrin’s platform brings together digital consultations, care navigation and care [...]
Long before the global pandemic, eConsult was pioneering remote consultations with doctors. Then came C19 and suddenly 15 million patients accessing its technology became 30 million. Health Tech World spoke to CEO Dr Murray Ellender about the firm’s journey. During the pandemic, demand for remote consultation software eConsult’s services skyrocketed, with the number of GP [...]
Sponsored Dynamic medical device development company Medovate have partnered with Medipex Healthcare Innovation Hub to support the development of promising new medical device innovations arising from within the NHS. Medipex – an award-winning healthcare innovation hub which connects the NHS with industry and academia – currently has active engagement with 19 NHS Trusts within the [...]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that up to 50 per cent of the world’s vaccine supply is wasted each year, in large part due to flaws in the cold chain. A vaccine must follow an uninterrupted series of refrigerated processes, from production and storage to distribution and administration. Any break in the chain can [...]
Medtronic plc has received official approval for the sale of its robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system in Europe. European CE Mark approval of its Hugo system is for urologic and gynecologic procedures, which make up around half of all robotic procedures performed today. Megan Rosengarten, president of the firm’s surgical robotics division, said: "This day has [...]
