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Patients needing help through ‘talking therapies’ could get much quicker access to care through digital solutions. They can get the right support faster thanks to a system which automates part of the initial clinical assessment. Analysis by Ieso Digital Health last year warned of “an explosion” in the number of people being referred by their [...]
A new campaign to shine a light on enterprise and innovation in the UK technology industry has been launched. Digital health businesses have come together to support The First 100 which aims to put UK start-ups on the global stage. Each of the 100 companies had to prove their innovation helped patients and clinicians in [...]
Technology used to monitor maternity care means staff can spend less time on paperwork and more time to identify improvements in patient care. Moving from paper-based audit trails to digital technology has helped improve pre-natal, labour and ante-natal care, according to one UK health trust. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) uses [...]
A mental wellness platform which allows users to hear from people sharing their personal experiences of overcoming life’s challenges, has won investment. The platform directs people suffering with their mental health to relevant support including services in their area. The technology also generates real-time, anonymised data, letting organisations respond to any issues that arise. Frog [...]
GPs switched from face to face appointments to video calls within weeks of the pandemic. But what’s next for primary care? Simon Applebaum, managing director of Spirit Digital, explores the digital opportunities facing front line staff and managers. Over the last twelve months, the NHS has been fundamentally reshaped. Plans and ideas that were bubbling [...]
A 15-minute test is being developed to identify sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea The rapid test will be able to spot multiple infections by labelling each infection indicator with a different coloured dye. More than one million sexually transmitted diseases are acquired every day according to the World Health Organisation and because [...]
In an exclusive interview, Pat McIver tells Health Tech World about plans to put the UK at the forefront of biopharama scientific research. PLANS to build a £350m biomanufacturing plant to produce modern medicines and boost the UK’s resilience have taken a major step forward. Lakes BioScience, formed from a team of UK industry experts, [...]
Reimbursement on health care costs is never straightforward. Gil Bashe, named by Medika Life as one of the top 50 healthcare influencers, outlines why health care technology must be more accessible to people with urgent health needs. [The US government is throwing the kitchen sink at the Covid-19 national response. It’s doing so with an urgency so [...]
A North East biotech firm is expanding its growth in 3D tissue modelling for drug research. Newcells, which uses stem cell technology and cell biology to build human tissue models, has won significant investment to develop plans in the international life sciences market. The investment will be used grow existing commercial operations and launching new [...]
Financial pressure on cutting costs in the NHS, at the same as streamlining processes and improving efficiencies with digital technology will be the headache facing many chief executives in 2021. Jon Pickering of Tiger looks at how analytics will help leaders make critical decisions. There is likely to be a high drive towards reducing costs [...]
