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A new platform to support population-scale genomics research offers “unprecedented opportunities to enrich existing datasets”, according to research commissioned by Genomics England. Think tank PHG Foundation was commissioned to explore the legal and ethical implications of a novel participant engagement technology platform being developed by Cambridge tech start-up Sano Genetics. Developed with funding from Innovate [...]
US wellness company Open Mind Health (OMH) has launched a mental telehealth practice which used a personalised ‘wellness track’ to help its users. Through the platform clients can access its team of psychiatrists, therapists, life coaches and healthcare consultants for help with a range of mental health conditions. These ‘wellness tracks’ will allow its customers [...]
The use of apps, devices and texting may have a larger benefit for the older population than first thought, the American Heart Association (AHA) reports. Having reviewed 26 pieces of research from the last 11 years, the group is calling for greater access to mobile health technologies for elderly people living heart disease, dismissing the [...]
Sponsored feature RLDatix, the leading global provider of intelligent safety solutions, has published a new international report entitled “The Overlooked Pandemic – How to Transform Patient Safety and Save Healthcare Systems”. The report includes an introduction by RLDatix CEO Jeff Surges, as well as contributions from the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), [...]
A tie-up between NVIDIA and drug discovery platform Schrödinger could help to accelerate the development of new therapeutics by speeding up the accurate evaluation of billions of molecules. The partnership aims to help startups and multinationals in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries to further accelerate drug discovery “at supercomputing scale”. Companies of all sizes will [...]
The East of England Stroke Telemedicine Partnership has been delivering consultant expertise to the bedside of stroke patients for a decade. HT World reports on its learnings and successes at a time when healthcare teams across the world are looking for guidance in telemedicine. The Covid-19 pandemic has raised the profile of telemedicine in the [...]
Wayne Miller of global tech empire Zebra Technologies on how the lessons learned from COVID will transform healthcare organisations in the future. Many healthcare organisations are looking forward to 2021 – and for good reason. When the COVID pandemic began, vital healthcare equipment was in short supply. Budgets quickly became strained as elective procedures were [...]
Tim Hawkins is managing director of commercial clinical solutions at Elsevier, the global information analytics firm. Here he tells HT World how clinicians can thrive in the knowledge explosion underway in medical environments across the world. HTW: How has COVID-19 impacted the rate of clinical information growth and how can clinicians remain aligned to the latest information [...]
AI could help to avoid a future pandemic, according to a new study which highlights its ability to control outbreaks of new infectious diseases. A team of researchers from the University of Gothenburg looked at how machine learning can be used to find effective testing methods during epidemic outbreaks. Using a simulation, they developed a [...]
Technology should play a bigger role in helping the millions of people in the UK access routine operations that have been delayed due to COVID-19. That is according to experts responding to new NHS figures which today revealed that 4.7 million people were waiting for routine operations and procedures in England in February. This is [...]
