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A UK health tech company has received £800,000 in NHS-backed funding to develop its digital self-management approach to support services for autistic people, both pre- and post-diagnosis. Brain in Hand, has received a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare award, funded by NHS England & NHS Improvement. The firm aims to transform the model of [...]
British health tech firm Visionable has received £500,000 in new funds to further develop its 5G-based ambulance communications system. Connected Ambulance leverages 5G technology to connect ambulance paramedics and patients with medical experts wherever they are located, through video conferencing. High-speed data and clinical grade images, help to enable on-the-spot diagnosis of patients while reducing [...]
Koa Health, a digital mental healthcare provider, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, part of products giant Johnson & Johnson. Through the collaboration, Koa Health will work with Janssen scientists to research the delivery of digital cognitive behavioural therapy (dCBT) for treatment resistant major depressive disorder (MDD) patients, in conjunction with [...]
Researchers working on projects related to COVID-19 are benefitting from a new service for studying vital health data quickly and securely. The Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Service for England provides researchers with access to permitted health data for analysis and research via a remote, secure, analytical platform within the NHS. It aims to speed up [...]
Researchers have developed a chip that is powered wirelessly and can be surgically implanted to read neural signals and stimulate the brain with both light and electrical current. The technology has been demonstrated successfully in rats and is designed for use as a research tool. "Our goal was to create a research tool that can [...]
DigitalHealth.London has selected twenty SMEs to join its flagship Accelerator programme delivered by the NHS. Health Tech World hears from some of the companies that will join the 2020/21 programme. According to DigitalHealth.London, the companies selected for the Accelerator 2020/21 programme are developing digital solutions or services that have the highest potential to meet London’s [...]
Smart meters could become a telehealth solution within a few years - helping to reduce the pressure on overloaded healthcare services. That is according to a new report which suggests that the energy-monitoring devices could double-up as a solution to a number of in-the-home healthcare challenges. A report, by independent think tank 2020health and commissioned [...]
Health Tech World finds out more about the Longitude Prize – a race lasting six years and counting to create a rapid diagnostic test that reduces unnecessary use of antibiotics. In 2012, David Cameron announced a scientific endeavour drawing on the spirit of an 18th century project that sought to develop a way to pinpoint [...]
An NHS-approved cognitive training app is helping to improve the lives of those with Parkinson’s Disease, research shows. A paper by Radboud University Medial Center Nijmegen and Maastricht (UMC) in the Netherlands shows that patients who used the app regularly for 24 weeks reversed the decline in their global cognition – their memory, their ability to concentrate, [...]
Karina Malhotra, founder of Acumentice, explains why managing data correctly in the healthcare industry holds the key to Britain's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. As was widely expected, we seem to be heading backwards in an attempt to move forwards and out of the COVID crisis. Despite campaigns to get us to Eat Out to [...]
