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A pioneering digital healthcare education platform which is addressing the global shortfall of healthcare workers and is helping to revolutionise healthcare training worldwide is marking its five-year anniversary. Founded by Dr Johann Malawana, Medics.Academy was created to help solve the global workforce crisis through scaled education and training. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts there [...]
The level of teleconsultations globally will rise by 80 per cent by 2025 to 765 million, new research has predicted. 422 million healthcare consultations conducted remotely will be carried out in 2021, and the unrelenting growth in the use of technology is set to gather pace further still, a study by Juniper Research has found. [...]
New health technology, Nanovery have created a nanorobot that could help to cut the COVID cancer backlog and help doctors diagnose faster
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Dock, a complete solution to build, manage and present credentials, has announced a partnership with credentialing platform Xertify. Dock and Xertify share a mission to bring innovative credentialing solutions to organizations using blockchain technology. Xertify provides a full-service platform for organizations such as universities and government agencies to issue and manage credentials for their recipients. Xertify [...]
A new breast cancer surgery technique has been pioneered to reduce debilitating side effects. Independent charitable hospital King Edward VII’s is incorporating two new innovations to combat some of the damaging long-term side effects of breast cancer surgeries. The lymphatic microsurgical healing approach (LYMPHA) reduces the risk of secondary breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). This is a chronic, [...]
A University of Southampton student has launched a new AI-driven health analytics platform. The platform aims to make it faster, simpler and safer for patients who need chronic care. The platform, CareIQ will save time and money for clinicians while improving patients' daily lives while making them feel more in control. It will help them [...]
A groundbreaking British-developed medical cooling device is to be used by a Paralympian to prevent the athlete’s body from reaching dangerously high temperatures. Antony Cotterill is unable to regulate his own body temperature, and will be using a pioneering medical cooling device, incorporating a bespoke cooling vest, in Tokyo to stop his body reaching dangerously [...]
Leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) digital health technologies Vytrac Health has made a new key appointment to its corporate strategic advisory board. Gil Bashe, Global Health Chair, FINN Partners, will be advising VyTrac executives on their public health and communications efforts in addressing health equity and overcoming racial disparities. Bashe has long been a champion [...]
A novel microwave sterilisation method that could revolutionise the way ambulances and hospitals are being disinfected has been developed by three universities in Scotland. Microwave engineers, infectious disease specialists and polymer scientists from the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and the University of Strathclyde have combined to create the new technique, which could have a [...]
