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Health Tech World speaks to Australian-British entrepreneur Dr Vivian Chan about her entrepreneurial journey and her pioneering start-up. Chan is the founder of Sparrho; a platform that aims to ‘democratise science’ by making scientific knowledge more accessible. When it comes to science and healthcare, much of the information available is not written and presented in [...]
By Alejandro Coca, co-head at TrueProfile.io Closing the NHS skills gap by streamlining and speeding up the recruitment process across the global healthcare industry is now, more than ever before in modern peacetime, a crucially important challenge. Widely-reported staff shortages across Britain’s healthcare sector were already cause for concern long before the recent coronavirus crisis [...]
A UK start-up aims to revolutionise the way people and businesses store, share and manage their health data. Tested.me, a new app developed in response to COVID-19, aims to help businesses reopen responsibly and give employees and customers more confidence when returning to their work and social life. In development since March 2020, the app [...]
A new study into the effectiveness of an emotion-detecting VR headset has shown the device to be 93 per cent accurate. The study took place at the London Science Museum over a six-week period. With over 900 participants, it was one of the one of the largest biometric datasets outside laboratory settings. The goal of the [...]
London-based uMotif, a patient data capture firm, has raised £5 million in a series A investment round led by existing investor AlbionVC. The funding, which also saw participation from Oslo-based DNV-GL and existing angel investors, will be used to grow the company’s team, hiring talent across its engineering, services, and commercial departments. uMotif says this [...]
Health Tech World spoke to Dr Mark Lomax about his growing start-up, PEP, a social listening tool that can accurately predict the CQC rating of medical institutions. Patient Experience Platform (PEP) is the first social listening tool that listens to patients. The platform scrapes data from multiple different sources across the internet, including social media [...]
Efforts to develop new drugs by focusing on the ‘scaffold’ of human tissue rather than just cells themselves have received a major commercial boost that could accelerate this area of biotech. In recent years UCL-spinout Engitix, based in the Royal Free Hospital in London, has been working on a platform that could advance treatments for [...]
Endomag CEO Eric Mayes on the past and future of nanotechnology in cancer care. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘nanotechnology’? For many, the term conjures up fantasies stemming from science-fiction, with dreams of injecting tiny machines into our bloodstream to ward off disease. The idea of using nanorobots to protect against infectious [...]
The company was selected from over 500 applicants to win a portion of the £140 million funding awarded by the NHS. Digital health care company iRhythm Technologies has been named a winner of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Award. The announcement was made by Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock at London [...]
Data scientist Rich Pugh on why a data-driven digital transformation has never been more important. The things we do not know about COVID-19 seem almost endless – even to those in the pharmaceutical and medical fields. There are no clear answers yet to some of the most fundamental questions for any disease – including the [...]
