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A global partnership has been formed between CPI and Cambridge Design Partnership to help speed up the delivery of transformative diagnostic and healthcare technologies to patients. The partnership aims to maximise the potential of next-generation diagnostic and healthcare technologies, shape the leading edge of innovation into commercial readiness and ultimately ensure UK leadership in medical [...]
A laser-powered pain relief device for at-home treatment which has sold more than 250,000 units across the globe has launched in the UK. With 28 million sufferers of pain in the UK, the handheld B-Cure Laser device uses low-level laser technology (LLLT) to provides pain relief for the back, neck and shoulders. It treats acute [...]
Limbic has launched an AI-enabled app that seeks to support overstretched NHS mental health services as they prepare for an influx of patients suffering from mental health issues triggered by the pandemic. Health Tech World talked to the company’s co-founder and CEO about the potential for AI to reduce waiting lists, boost efficiency and accelerate [...]
A week-long care event has demonstrated how assistive technology devices are able to help patients in a living-lab setting, with an in-ear switch that could control home appliances one of the stand out successes.
A unique indoor way-finder is being launched for people to find they way around hospitals more easily. The app, by BuzzStreets and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, is aimed at helping patients and their families navigate their way more easily, reduce staff time spent giving directions, help ensure patients arrive on time for appointments, [...]
An NHS Trust is continuing to move away from paper-based systems towards a central EPR model through appointing new delivery partners. North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) has appointed Better, alongside CGI as the implementation partner, to provide e-prescribing and allergy monitoring across its acute and community hospitals. The agreement marks the next [...]
A new virtual smartcard solution has been launched which provides fast, secure access to NHS Spine-enabled applications without the need for physical cards. Imprivata, a digital identity company for healthcare, has announced its new Imprivata OneSign Spine Combined Workflow Plus, which improves security by eliminating smartcard workarounds and supports compliance with NHS information governance standards. [...]
A UK firm that sells 3D printers and materials has been selected for a University of Birmingham project aiming at bringing the latest technologies to small and medium sized health tech companies.
A new web-based system has been developed to give care homes simple access to COVID-19 tests, in a partnership which will see a portal developed to give more health and care services paper-free access to laboratories. Black Country Pathology Services has worked with CliniSys to create the ICE Portal, a web-based application that makes it easy [...]
A portable monitoring device that detects heart irregularities in minutes has helped to protect mental health patients during the COVID-19 pandemic - in what is believed to be a world-first approach - and is now due to be rolled out across parts of the North of England. During the early stages of the pandemic, Tees, [...]
