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DNS attacks in healthcare now cost an average of £626,000 - up 12 per cent year-on-year and the sharpest rise seen in any industry. Healthcare was one of the main targets of attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new Threat Report shows how it remains more vulnerable than other industries in the event of [...]
Collaboration between academics, public health, NHS personnel and industry is crucial in using antibody testing to determine booster vaccination priority, a new report has revealed. A study from Public Policy Projects (PPP), in partnership with Siemens Healthineers, considers the potential antibody testing holds in increasing the efficiency of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, as well as [...]
A new partnership between the National Horizons Centre (NHC) and National Measurement Laboratory (NML) is set to support industry partners across the North East of England. The three-year Metrology for Biosciences and Healthcare Innovation Partnership (MetBioP) strategic partnership will aim to advance metrology research, with particular focus on applications to biomanufacturing scale-up and the interface [...]
A world-first research collaboration is combining traditional multi-drug anti-cancer treatments with innovative pharmaceutical 3D printing technologies to help in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer patients. FabRx Ltd, the biotechnology start-up that launched the pharmaceutical 3D printer M3DIMAKER, is working alongside Gustave Roussy, the French cancer research Institute recognised as the best oncology hospital in [...]
Social media has the power to connect people across the world - now tech giants Microsoft are using this platform to help people take part in life saving research.
International healthcare investor Novo Holdings has invested in Availity, one of the largest healthcare data and administrative networks connecting payers and providers throughout the United States. Availity connects over two million providers to every health plan in the United States. Through its multi-payer platform, it facilitates over 13 billion electronic transactions annually. Now, Novo Holdings [...]
A series of COVID-19 dashboards conveying real-time information about patients and care have been developed for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by PhoenixSoft. The dashboards provide essential information at a glance, and enable users to make decisions regarding clinical care, staffing and patient flow throughout the Trust. They are in use at Basingstoke and North [...]
The UK’s most powerful supercomputer has been launched, which will enable scientists and healthcare experts to use the combination of AI and simulation to accelerate the digital biology revolution and bolster the country’s world-leading life sciences industry. The ‘Cambridge-1’ has the potential to create an estimated value of £600million over the next decade. NVIDIA today [...]
Online pharmacy business LloydsDirect by LloydsPharmacy is now supporting 500,000 patients to manage their NHS prescriptions, after users of the app-based service more than doubled in the past year. Established in 2015, it took four years for LloydsDirect to secure its first 100,00 nominated patients. Now the healthtech start-up has reached its 500,000 patient milestone, [...]
Optical technologies business Jenoptik is to sell its crystal growth division to Hellma Materials, it has been announced. Through the acquisition, Hellma Materials takes on all 25 employees in the business and will continue with all business activities. Jenoptik will continue to focus on photonic applications. The acquisition is still subject to regulatory approval, which is [...]
