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  • Automated booking service launched for NHS x-rays

    An automated x-ray booking appointment service from Professional Service Technology Group (PSTG) has been rolled out at the University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM).

  • How health tech can transform the post-acute care market

    Five digital health ideas that will help to make the leap.

  • Siemens launches high-resolution CT scanner to improve clinician efficiency

    A new computed tomography (CT) scanner from Siemens Healthineers which produces high-resolution images quickly in a clinical setting has been unveiled.

  • AR healthcare platform targets US expansion

    A platform which uses augmented reality (AR), gameplay and artificial intelligence to deliver health information to young patients, is aiming to raise over £1.5 million to expand in the US. Founded as a solution to the lack of quality information available to prepare children for hospitalisation, Xploro uses age-appropriate language and interaction paradigms to reduce [...]

  • The new business model helping unlock the full potential of healthcare

    Health Tech World speaks to John Phillips, EMEA GM and SVP of sales at Zuora, about how its subscription business model is changing healthcare.

  • Rising to the Government Ventilator Challenge

    One year on from the height of lockdown and the launch of the Government’s Ventilator Challenge, Ramie Smith, senior director customer management – EMEA at Plexus, looks back at how its team in Scotland responded to a national call for ventilators in record speed. In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold, [...]

  • Leeds hospital adopts new imaging software

    A new system that allows clinicians to to seamlessly store and share radiological images has been implemented at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts (LTHT).

  • Making patients’ voices on medicines heard

    From starting life as a thinking-out-loud remark, Talking Medicines has become an international social intelligence provider to global drugs companies, with its unique AI-backed insight into patient experiences of their medicines proving invaluable to the pharma sector. CEO Jo Halliday speaks to Health Tech World about the datatech’s development and vision “It was all quite [...]

  • Breakthrough in pre-term birth diagnosis through new device

    A new medical device has been created which improves the accuracy of pre-term birth (PTB) diagnosis. The technology will be brought to market by EveryBaby, a UK-based company backed by South Korean investment, and help reduce the number of deaths and complications arising from PTB. Its development follows research into Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) carried [...]

  • The headphone seamlessly measuring your mental health

    As part of Mental Health Awareness Week Health Tech World speaks to Shaan Bassi and Zoltan Adorjan of Kouo, discussing the company’s upcoming mental health measuring headphones and why this innovation is so important.