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HCL Technologies has announced a collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley to create a health technology collaborative laboratory. The CoLab’s multidisciplinary teams will work on health technology innovations to meet current and future challenges. These activities will include rapid problem-solving, prototyping and testing of breakthrough healthcare technologies, with HCL contributing $750,000 over the course of [...]
ADLINK Technology, a specialist in edge computing, has launched a new series of medically certified surgical monitors. The ASM series of surgical monitors is designed for integration with endoscopic, microscopic, fluoroscopic, multi-modality, and other medical imaging systems, and is used to visualise videos and still images from a variety of clinical imaging modalities in operating theatres, [...]
Healthcare marketing communications agency Onyx Health is launching a national competition for a business in the health and life science sector to win £5,000 of its communications expertise for free. The competition is aimed at innovative start-ups and SME's in the health and life science sectors, which are at the industry's cutting edge and can [...]
Healthcare company Dem Dx and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have been awarded £1.1m to develop and evaluate an AI-powered clinical reasoning tool for eye health services. Dem Dx’s triage platform supports the practitioner during a patient’s clinical assessment. It uses a combination of a database built by world-leading doctors and AI to tell [...]
Dräger Safety UK, a maker of medical and safety technology, has opened a new multimillion-pound manufacturing facility in Gateshead. The new site, which will produce FFP3 face masks to fulfil a Government contract to supply UK manufactured PPE for frontline workers, is Dräger's second site in the region. The company’s other site, located at Blyth [...]
Doctor Care Anywhere (DOC), a UK-based provider of digital health services, has reported growth across all of its key operating areas and financial measures. Reported in a trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2020, DOC now covers 2.2 million eligible lives, up 186.2% on the previous year. As of the end of the [...]
University of Alberta researchers in Canada have taken another step forward in developing an artificial intelligence tool to predict schizophrenia by analysing brain scans. In recently published research, the tool was used to analyse functional magnetic resonance images of 57 healthy first-degree relatives (siblings or children) of schizophrenia patients. It accurately identified the 14 individuals [...]
Edinburgh-based MedTech company Manus Neurodynamica has closed a £1.2m funding round to support the launch of its digital pen which provides an early warning of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions. Manus is rolling out its NeuroMotor Pen later this year, initially focusing on the UK and Benelux markets, while also progressing work to secure [...]
Sensyne Health has signed a five-year non-exclusive strategic research agreement with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT). The agreement will enable the application of clinical AI research to improve patient care and accelerate research into new medicines. The RWT dataset covers 700,000 unique patient records from a patient population of approximately 470,000 people. The new [...]
Researchers in Australia have created a new biosensor which could lead to faster and more effective treatments for chronic health complications. The research team, led by Dr Simon Corrie from Monash University's department of chemical engineering and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, took an antibody that binds EGFR (epidermal growth [...]
