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Positive attitudes towards healthcare’s digital transformation has reached record levels, according to the annual Digital Health Intelligence NHS IT Leadership Survey. The survey aims to gain insight into the priorities, concerns and challenges faced by NHS chief clinical information officers, chief information officers and other relevant digital health leaders. It revealed that 83% of respondents said [...]
NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire CCG has launched an app library to support its patients. The Herefordshire and Worcestershire App Library aims to help people make an informed decision on the best apps for their health and wellbeing needs. The library contains hundreds of apps that are independently reviewed and clinically accredited by a team of [...]
Health Tech World talked to Dr Sina Habibi, CEO of Cognetivity, about the company’s platform which uses AI to detect dementia and Alzheimer’s at its earliest stages. Cognetivity’s platform requires patients to respond to 100 photos, which are displayed on an iPad in rapid succession, and select whether each contains an animal or not. The human response to animals [...]
Dublin-headquartered digital digestive health company FoodMarble has closed a seed investment round of $2.6m. The round was led by Business Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from SOSV, Breed Reply, Delta Partners and Enterprise Ireland. The funding will support continued expansion into new markets, research and development projects, as well as the further development of FoodMarble AIRE, [...]
A digital health all-party parliamentary group (APPG) has been constituted in a bid to highlight the benefits that successful use of data and digital health technologies can bring to the NHS and to the UK economy. The APPG will be chaired by Dean Russell, MP for Watford, and will bring together parliamentarians and senior health and technology leaders. [...]
A Liverpool-headquartered medical device company has secured a £750,000 funding package. The company’s CEO spoke to Health Tech World about its importance. NasoGastric Feeding Solutions (NGFS) has developed a device called DoubleCHEK, which uses dual indicators, CO2 and pH, to prevent the misplacement of feeding tubes into the lungs. The funding, which was secured through a mix of private investment and matched funding from [...]
Jack Priestman, co-founder of Salient Bio, has spoken about the roll out of the firm’s robotics driven COVID-19 mass testing platform and the technology’s wider potential. The London-based spin-out was founded by former team members of Imperial College London's BioFoundry, which accelerates the commercialisation of synthetic biology research and technology. Through its robotics driven modular [...]
Dr Henry Carleton, managing director of the NHS division at digital cancer care platform Careology, has spoken about the benefits of receiving care at home and the impact COVID-19 has had on the health tech sector. Careology is designed to allow its users to track their symptoms and side effects to treatment, as well as [...]
The director behind a project to build a new health data research hub has spoken to Health Tech World about its potential to innovate the acute care sector. Global hybrid IT services provider Ensono has been selected by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) to help it build the new hub. Working alongside Microsoft, [...]
Global identity verification company Trulioo has unveiled a new partnership with digital healthcare provider True Medical. True Medical is designed to digitalise doctor appointments and trips to the pharmacy, allowing users to have online consultations and receive delivered prescriptions. With access to a marketplace of independent data sources through Trulioo GlobalGateway, True Medical can now verify and offer quick digital [...]
