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Tech firm Holoxica is making progress in developing the world’s first glasses-free 3D holographic system for healthcare professionals. 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 on the wider healthcare system. It could enable [...]
Doctor Care Anywhere has partnered with Signature Pharmacy, an online pharmacy, as a delivery partner for its e-prescription services. This will enable patients who have been prescribed medication by a DCA GP to have their prescription delivered straight to their home, or an address of choice, 7 days a week, resulting in a simpler and [...]
Rather than replicating existing healthcare systems, we face an opportunity to re-imagine the patient experience for better outcomes; writes HealthHero founder & CEO, Ranjan Singh. The great promise of digital technology was breaking down barriers to access. Access to knowledge, entertainment, communication, even money. In healthcare, we’ve seen this in action; greatly accelerated by the [...]
A company working with experts from the University of Birmingham and King’s College London has been awarded funding by Innovate UK to produce custom-fitted, reusable, medical grade facemasks that will fit all people regardless of age, sex or ethnicity. MyMaskFit will focus on producing masks at FFP3 standard, which filter 99% of aerosols. The FFP3 standard [...]
Lifestyle-enhancing AI services such as fitness trackers, dating apps, smart speakers and photo editors, designed to make consumer’s lives easier, healthier and happier may be failing to create the positive impact their developers say they are, according to a new study from the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University. The study, led by Professor Stefano [...]
With communities across the nation experiencing a wave of COVID-19 infections, clinicians need effective tools that will enable them to aggressively and accurately treat each patient based on their specific disease presentation, health history, and medical risks. In research recently published online in Medical Image Analysis, a team of engineers demonstrated how a new algorithm they [...]
By Graeme Cox, CEO and co-founder of virtual reality tech firm emteq labs. The greatest promise that AI presents to human health is the opportunity to shift to personalised models of care, moving us from discussion of Life Sciences to a focus on Life Services - a refocus from cure to prevention, driven by data [...]
By Eva Martins, global head of innovation at Novartis AG AI is changing the way we live, the way we do business, the way we take decisions. There isn’t a single sector and industry that is not being affected and transformed. So how do leaders need to evolve in order to stay at the top [...]
A new accelerator programme is inviting SMEs to collaborate with Greater Manchester’s research and innovation institutions to support the development of innovative health and care products. The Research and Innovation (R&I) Health Accelerator is open to companies looking to accelerate commercialisation of their product or service into the health and care system. By leveraging Greater [...]
Scientists have developed a new way of making strong, supple composite polymers that more closely mimic materials found in the natural world. Their breakthrough could have applications in fields such as soft robotics and cartilage prosthetic implants. Normally, synthetic hydrogels fall into two very different material categories. The first type, which includes window glass and [...]
