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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have been putting virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke survivors to the test. They have created a new gaming platform which uses low cost videogame technology to improve the lives of stroke patients suffering from complex neurological syndromes caused by their stroke. And they have been working with stroke [...]
John Danaher MD, president of Global Clinical Solutions on the shift from volume to value and, ultimately, individual care. In recent years, healthcare information has too often been disconnected, inaccessible and outdated, greatly restricting the industry’s efforts to improve quality and efficiency. According to a recent global survey of 742 healthcare leaders carried out by [...]
Johanna Perraudin speaks to French tech firm EzyGain about its mission to make physical rehabilitation more accessible. Zineb Agoumi’s grandmother was the inspiration behind the launch of EzyGain in 2015. As her grandmother was often falling at home, she researched ways of practicing walking securely. She quickly noticed that most physical rehabilitation machines tended to [...]
Healthcare data has increased 878% since 2016 and we must do more to protect it. Here James Norman, healthcare CIO at Dell Technologies (EMEA), explains how. What can only be described as a shock to the system, the outbreak of COVID-19 sparked significant changes to the entire health sector; uprooting standard practices, introducing new uniform requirements and implementing new technologies at record speeds. The [...]
A new digital treatment programme is helping patients with back pain make "large strides" in their recovery within weeks. Almost half of UK patients using a new digital treatment programme to manage their back pain have reported seeing a 30 percent improvement within 14 days. Founded by two registered osteopaths, BackPain.online is said to [...]
Fresh from teaching the world to ditch alcohol one year at a time, Ruari Fairbairns is helping to develop technology that will enable members to connect over the common goal of changing behaviour, as Health Tech World reports. One Year No Beer was born when Ruari Fairbairns finally plucked up the courage to give up [...]
Meet the pioneering firm using bioelectronics to change the way pain is managed. London-based NuroKor is developing a range of products that use the very latest in electrical nerve stimulation tech to help manage pain and support with recovery, all without need for medication. NuroKor says its technology could be an effective alternative to painkillers, [...]
Breakthrough for UK diagnostics startup could speed its journey towards clinical trials and beyond. Diagnostics startup Glyconics has developed a novel approach to the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases, such as diabetes and COPD. The device uses infrared light to produce a distinctive molecular ‘fingerprint’ in healthy vs non-healthy samples using a predictive algorithm in [...]
The CEO of a British tech company has warned the Government of potential serious flaws in the security of personal information and data used in the new contact tracing app technology announced by Matt Hancock. Manchester tech inventor and innovator Louis-James Davis stated that the use of QR code scanning technology - which underpins the Government contact tracing app [...]
How new sensing technology is utilising machine learning to detect falls with greater accuracy and reliability. In less than 50 years, the number of over 65s in the UK is expected to grow by 8.6 million – equivalent to the London’s population. This means by 2066, 20.4 million people will be in this bracket, [...]
