News
Adam Enterkin, Blackberry's senior vice president for the EMEA region, on lessons learned and urgent steps needed. Healthcare is facing a crisis of cybersecurity. To ignore it might prove fatal for trust — for both patients and healthcare professionals. As cyber professionals, we know the pandemic has created enormous opportunity for cybercriminals to target healthcare [...]
A new UK health tech cluster has opened to help build relationships, grow opportunities and attract inward investment. The West Midlands Health Technologies Cluster, co-created by several organisations, hopes to build collaborative relationships among businesses, universities and health providers in England's West Midlands region. This, it is hoped, will help to promote businesses in health [...]
Digital care and health products firm Tunstall Healthcare has launched a new wearable which enables two-way speech, fall detection and locatability. Tunstall Go, developed in partnership with Chiptech, is designed to complement telecare packages by providing users with the means to access help when away from home. It is worn as a pendant or attached [...]
Health tech projects feature prominently in the latest batch of research projects announced by EBRAINS, part of the EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP). EBRAINS is a new digital research infrastructure, created by the HBP that gathers an extensive range of data and tools for brain related research. It aims to capitalise on the work performed [...]
UK software firm Lilli, which aims to use machine learning to revolutionise home care, has raised £4.5m in a pre-series A funding round. The funding comes eight months into CEO Gren Paull’s tenure and follows a series of senior appointments, including Kelly Hudson as CSO, and CCO Nick Weston, formerly of O2. Lilli uses machine [...]
Digital therapeutics firm Happify Health has completed a US$73m funding round and appointed a former Goldman Sachs senior vice president as CFO. The US company will use the capital raise to advance and expand the company’s healthcare platform, focused on digital therapeutics and patient care delivery. The funds will support growth in key areas, including [...]
Global pharma firm Chiesi and French AI startup Hephaï have joined forces to develop a digital solution to support improved inhaler use. The platform is designed for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It aims to help them better control their condition. The app will be available on Apple and Android in [...]
Meet the start-up harnessing technology to transform the way healthcare facilities are designed, built and operated. London start-up ATLAS is aiming to revolutionise the development of healthcare facilities through digital tech. Its platform is designed for those healthcare operators on a mission to modernise their design, build and operational processes. ATLAS is building an end-to-end [...]
Hospitals need to think far beyond electronic records and must surpass narrow approaches to AI, writes Neil Perry. Here the director of digital transformation at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust details his mission to do things differently. Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is in many ways a ‘normal’ NHS trust. If you look at our [...]
Sponsored feature New identity for CliniSys and MIPS is launched with refreshed logo and updated website. Move reflects 40-year history of delivering industry-leading, end-to-end solutions for customers paired with a commitment to future innovation. CliniSys Group has created a single brand for its businesses in the UK and Europe, with a refreshed logo and a [...]
