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A company, backed by tennis star Andy Murray, is providing software which aims to help people lose weight, improve their health while working from home during the pandemic. Tictrac is a health engagement business, which helps insurance companies, healthcare providers and organisations to engage their customers and employees in their health and wellbeing. During the [...]
Hospitals face new demand for virtual visiting, and more patients are confident they don’t always need to see a doctor in person, as the use of remote technologies rise. But concerns around data security and privacy are voiced, and people with lower incomes are more likely to express anxieties about the virtual shift, new research [...]
Europeans are becoming more open to remote treatment via webcam and other digitised medical technologies and techniques in the wake of Covid 19. The STADA Health Report 2020 shows that while three quarters (74%) of Europeans are satisfied with their own healthcare systems, increasing numbers are looking favourably at treatment via webcam. Seven in ten [...]
A digital cancer care company has adapted its remote monitoring app to track the symptoms of COVID-19 patients. As the UK enters the second wave of coronavirus, digital technology is being harnessed to monitor patients while they self-isolate at home. UK start-up Careology modified its digital cancer care platform over a 4-week period and will [...]
Historically healthcare has been one of the more relatively slow-moving industries when it has come to the pace of its technology adoption and digital transformation. Covid-19, however, has forced the sector to react to new demands and ways of working, leading to big strides in the acceleration of tech adoption and digital usage as businesses [...]
A medical practitioner has seen a thirteen-fold increase in consultation hours his Staffordshire practice spends on its digital consultation services over the Covid epidemic. Prior to the epidemic about 10% of his practice’s consultations were digital and 90% face-to-face, but those figures have been flipped to about 90% digital consultation and 10% face-to-face. Dr Jack [...]
As the gap in support for mental health widens, new methods of treatment using technology are coming to the foreground. According to Mind, one in five people in England report experiencing a common mental health issue, such as anxiety and depression, in any given week. However, only one in eight people with a mental health [...]
The software “empowers” developers at research institutes, hospitals and life science organisations to build their own medical imaging AI models. Project InnerEye at Microsoft Research Cambridge has released an open-source software which will make it easier for researchers to train and deploy machine learning models for medical imaging. The project has been running for over [...]
A new platform is being launched to bring together cardiovascular patients and trials to improve individual treatment and aid research. The site www.cardiotrials.org for patients and healthcare professionals will use ‘dating site’ technology to change the way that cardiovascular trials are recruited for in the UK. It is hoped that this will improve the engagement of heart failure patients [...]
The coronavirus pandemic is one of the most difficult challenges many of us have experienced in our lifetime - and AI may have an important role to play in overcoming it, writes Ananth Krishnan. In the midst of the turmoil national health authorities, pharmaceutical companies, universities, and research institutes have been put under enormous strain [...]
