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A £5m investment in manufacturing to deliver a library of vaccines – just one of the Chancellor’s handouts. Andrew Meade, Accenture UK&I Life Sciences lead exclusively assesses the impact of the Budget on the health tech sector for Health Tech World. “Over the past year, the UK has emerged as a dominant player in the [...]
Can the subscription model fix healthcare? Amy Konary, customer business innovation chief at Zuora has spent 20 years advising firms on subscription business strategies, and set up the think tank Subscribed Institute. She tells Health Tech World that subscription can increase access and improve health outcomes. As the coronavirus pandemic lays bare the dismal state [...]
Cyber-attacks on health care companies have increased at double the rate of other industries. So what can we do to prevent these sophisticated assaults on systems? Israel Barak chief information security officer, Cybereason talks exclusively to Health Tech World Since the pandemic, attacks on healthcare institutions have unfortunately, become almost commonplace. A recent study has [...]
In an exclusive interview with HTW, the Director of DayOne tells us why the Swiss city is at the forefront of a digital health revolution. Lucas Scherdel joins DayOne to Put Basel at the centre of the digital health world The cosmopolitan beauty of Basel in Switzerland and its surrounding area has the largest biopharma [...]
Health and social care organisations in Derbyshire are working with Orion Health to meet the government’s target to have a shared care record in place by September – known in the contract jargon as the ‘minimum viable solution’. Joined Up Care Derbyshire, an integrated care system covering Derby, Chesterfield, and surrounding areas, has signed a [...]
R&D tax credits: A health tech guideHT World, in partnership with ABGI UK, on how your firm could tap into this often-overlooked tax break.
The UK’s life science industry has become the envy of Europe with the vaccine roll-out. But will Rishi Sunak recognise it in the Budget today? Andrew Meade and Pervaise Khan of Accenture UK are advisers to the big pharma companies, and they look ahead to what the Chancellor might say Context Post-Brexit, the UK needs [...]
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, thousands of people stayed away from GP surgeries and hospitals. Research shows 34 per cent of adults in the UK said they deliberately avoided making a doctors’ appointment because of the risk of infection. And 45 per cent of people didn’t seek medical attention because they didn’t want to burden [...]
All the evidence suggests Covid-19 is here to stay in one variant or another. Tom Downes of Quail Digital looks at how future health professionals manage scare acute resources efficiently, while at the same time safeguarding frontline workers and providing the best possible care for patients. As a recent paper by Iqrar Ahmed examines, the [...]
Living with chronic pain used to be a condition people had to cope with. Now an online clinic is offering a holistic approach to put an end to persistent pain. In an exclusive interview Eric Bystrom of Cellen tells Health Tech World that putting an end to pain is within striking reach. Patients can wait [...]
