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Exscientia, an artificial intelligence driven pharma-tech company, has been awarded a $4.2m grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Denise Barrault, senior portfolio manager, discussed the funding with Health Tech World. The funding will be used to apply the company’s Centaur platforms to the discovery of next-generation therapeutic targets and leads. Exscientia will use its Centaur Biologist platform to apply domain-specific implementations of knowledge graphs and deep learning algorithms to a range of biological data. Responding to objectives [...]
A company developing medical technology to support the aviation industry has secured a six-figure funding package. Health Tech World has spoken to the firm’s CEO about its intention to enter new markets. MIME Technologies, a spin-out from the University of Aberdeen, has received £248,000 in funding from the Scottish Government to help deliver technology that supports [...]
Wendy Lamin, director at Holoxica, has spoken to Health Tech World about the benefits of the company’s 3D holographic system and the firm’s plans for future growth. The Edinburgh-based company’s ‘Holo-medicine’ is designed to benefit patients by enhancing remote consultations, helping people understand their conditions and surgical procedures more clearly, as well as reducing the strain [...]
Global research publishing and information analytics company Elsevier has acquired a Florida-based developer of virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education. Shadow Health’s digital clinical experiences train and prepare nurses and healthcare practitioners for clinical settings. Its simulations, powered by Shadow Health’s Conversation Engine, enable learners to practice and apply their clinical reasoning skills through life-like interactions with [...]
Marta Kalas, the co-founder of Thomson Screening, has spoken to Health Tech world about using technology to tackle the administrative challenges of healthcare. Thomson Screening is a City, University of London spin-out formed to manage the ongoing development and global implementation of SchoolScreener software. The company’s software has been used to manage more than one [...]
VacTrack has partnered with London Vaccination Clinic to deliver a new digital app amid the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. The VacTrack app provides personalised vaccine recommendations for travel, digital storage for vaccine certificates and verification of immunity status with its immunity visa. VacTrack also allows users to book in with London Vaccination Clinic [...]
Provider of digital health services Doctor Care Anywhere has raised approximately £55.7m to fuel its plans for growth in the UK. The majority of funds raised in its over-subscribed initial public offering (IPO) will be used to support the company’s investment in new services, including a mental health service due to be launched in the [...]
A bespoke machine learning technology for the enhancement of women's health has surpassed its £100,000 crowdfunding target. Moody Month is an AI platform designed to help women understand their daily and weekly hormone patterns to optimise mental and physical health. Moody connects users with customised health, food and fitness advice based on their moods, symptoms [...]
At-home monitoring and predictive care management provider Karantis360 has partnered with SENSEi Networks to enable its services to work away from the home. Karantis360 uses IoT sensors to unobtrusively monitor the daily activities of vulnerable people being cared for in their own home. Utilising Artificial Intelligence, the platform learns behaviours, analyses activity data and compares [...]
Siemens Healthineers and IBM Deutschland are introducing an open digital platform designed to advance the networking of the German healthcare system. The new platform, teamplay digital health platform connect, uses international standards like Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) to simplify the secure sharing of patient data between service providers. The technology is already used by [...]
