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Clinicians and tech experts from the UK are helping to make surgery safer and more affordable in the Caribbean, using the latest medical robotics. Imperial Medical Solutions (IMS), of Hartlepool, North East England, has introduced its FreeHand robotic system for minimally invasive surgery across hospitals in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. Surgeons carrying out operations [...]
David Stein heads up a consortium behind technology that can produce diagnostic results from small capillary consumer samples collected in retail locations. Here, amid the hype and misdirection of Theranos, he speaks to Health Tech World correspondent Gil Bashe on the why, when and how of delivering diagnostic data from drops of blood. [...]
Yusuke Terada is a Japanese YouTuber with cerebral palsy. Health Tech World editor spoke to him from Japan to find out all about the wearable Cyberdyne cyborg that has changed his life. Yusuke is 31 and was born cerebral palsy, which means he is largely reliant on a wheelchair. However, in recent years he has [...]
A ‘social companion’ robot has been shown to encourage a positive outlook and improve medical interactions for hospitalised children, in a new study. Robin stands at around four feet tall and has the capabilities to move, talk and play with others while being remotely controlled by humans. Specialists from UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital’s (LA, US) [...]
Stephen Rouatt, CEO at Signify UK&I, on the rapid rise of lighting tech in tackling diseases. Strict cleaning and sanitisation practices are now just a part of life as the world ‘learns to live with the virus.’ Hand sanitiser, PPE and constant spraying and wiping offer some protection and peace of mind. But now tech [...]
In the first part of his Reluctant Entrepreneur series for Health Tech World, Dr DJ Hamblin-Brown highlights a major challenge in medtech enterprise. It’s a cliché to say that being an entrepreneur is hard. Long hours, poor rewards and deep uncertainty – which is to say, almost certain failure – all take their toll on [...]
Two health tech projects aimed at addressing the impact of COVID on the brain and mental health have received European funding. The two proposals answered the Human Brain Project’s (HBP) calls for expression of interest (CEol) on “COVID-19 and its impact on brain and mental health”. They have received a share of £383,000 (EUR 450,000) [...]
Digital health startup Habitual has raised £1.7m in seed funding to progress its approach to diabetes reversal and treatment. Habitual provides digital prediabetes and type 2 diabetes remission programmes that help patients to reverse disease and live medication-free. It founded in 2019 by Ian Braithwaite, a medical doctor with a background in digital health startups, [...]
Sponsored Imprivata®, the digital identity company for healthcare and beyond, and VMware® has announced a collaboration that will free clinicians entirely from having to type passwords on mobile devices by combining Imprivata GroundControl, Imprivata OneSign®, and VMware Workspace ONE™. This new integration unlocks the full power of both company offerings with the tap of a badge [...]
The CalproSmart Self-Test will be integrated into Ampersand’s My IBD Care, a behavioural science based digital therapeutic app for people with IBD
