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US start-up, Lite Run has developed a rehabilitation system based on NASA-patented technology that has the ability to half patients’ bodyweight. The technology is based on the concept of ‘differential air pressure’; a theory that was originally explored by NASA to increase the body weight of astronauts while in space. LiteRun adapted this technology to [...]
A new healthtech chatbot, Ask Ave, originally created for cancer patients and their families, has been adapted for use to tackle people’s concerns about Covid 19. The health chatbot, has been used by NHS Scotland, supporting more than 110,000 Covid-19 messages from concerned people during its soft launch. The platform was created to allow anonymity [...]
Safety worries caused by a lack of operating instructions for medical devices were a driver behind the recent acquisition of oneSOURCE by RLDatix. US company RLDatix, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, a global provider of intelligent patient safety solutions, last month acquired oneSOURCE, a healthcare medical equipment SaaS database that provides online access to continuously-updated [...]
With a workforce that has tripled to 300 over the past three years, Corin is considered one of the great success stories to come out of the UK's health tech sector. Founded in the mid-1980s, Corin is an orthopaedics business headquartered in Cirencester, with international operations in countries including Germany, Australia, France, South Africa and [...]
The global demand for pharmaceutical products has grown consistently since the turn of the century. Despite the growth in demand and market value, pharmaceutical manufacturing has by and large neglected many of the productivity and efficiency benefits presented by automation systems. Here, George Walker, managing director of pharmaceutical automation specialist Novotek UK and Ireland, explains [...]
VR technology can have a significant impact on the validity of remote health appointments for those with eating disorders. That is according to a new paper that demonstrates the potential value of Multi-User Virtual Reality (MUVR) remote psychotherapy for those with body shape and weight concerns. In the study, published in Human-Computer Interaction Journal, participants [...]
Two medical device firms have signed a deal aimed at taking a cutting edge anaesthesia device - which was developed with the help of UK clinicians - into 60 countries. Medovate and Vygon Group have announced an exclusive deal to distribute SAFIRA (SAFer Injection for Regional Anaesthesia) globally. Vygon will start a phased launch of [...]
YOURmeds, a solution designed to increase patient adherence and compliance to over 80%, has won an innovation award through an agetech accelerator. The firm has won an award through SEAS2GROW - an EU Funded project carried out by nine partners: academics, living labs, care organisations, regional authorities and cluster organisations from four countries (France, UK, Belgium, [...]
By Kevin Sample, senior consultant, GHX, for Health Tech World. The COVID-19 crisis has been a huge challenge to the global healthcare industry in many different ways, but it has also been the spark to re-evaluate previously accepted practices and processes and innovate across the sector. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the [...]
In the early months of 2020, when news that the COVID-19 pandemic was to become a serious global threat, the UK Government had to plan healthcare provision against a backdrop of ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ for numbers of deaths. In response to the crisis, many hospitals turned to tech to ensure it had the necessary resources [...]
