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Cloud Technology Solutions’ Alison King on the uses of nascent technologies in healthcare and how the NHS can learn from the UK’s European neighbours. The NHS is constantly looking for ways to improve effectiveness across the organisation. Whether that’s through innovations in technology or changing policies to streamline ways of working, maximising productivity has always [...]
NETSCOUT's Darren Anstee on the rapid rise in demand for telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine services were initially introduced to solve the difficulties of providing expert medical care to people in communities where that expertise might not otherwise be available. Accessing medical specialists, or even GPs in some cases has been a challenge [...]
A UK company producing wheelchair wheels with integrated suspension is setting its sights on European expansion. Nottinghamshire-based company, Loopwheels replaces standard spokes with carbon composite springs which act as shock absorbers to reduce pain and discomfort for wheelchair users. In some European countries, including Germany, Loopwheels can be prescribed by clinicians. The company has now [...]
Scientists launch a test that determines the number of neutralising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 within a much shorter period of time than previous methods. To determine immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and the effectiveness of potential vaccines, the number of neutralising antibodies in the blood of recovered or vaccinated individuals need [...]
French electronics company Withings has announced a US$60 million Series B funding round. Withings says it will invest funds to globally scale its business-to-business division Withings MED PRO and accelerate the development of the next generation of consumer health devices that bring medical grade and predictive capabilities into the home. It also plans to add [...]
Scientists have developed a fully automated ‘micro-lab’ that can quickly and reliably determine a patient’s blood type. Created by a team of researchers at Japan’s Tokyo University of Science, the novel ‘lab-on-a-chip’ is expected to change the way emergency medical support is given and reduce the costs of blood testing. Blood transfusion, if performed quickly, [...]
A new report from AXA PPP healthcare estimates that employee travel to GP appointments cost UK businesses £1.5bn in lost working time in 2019. The report highlights the role that online GPs could play in boosting efficiencies across business and healthcare. The findings, produced by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), reveal that [...]
An inhalable drug which could offer a convenient treatment option for the COVID-19 pandemic is currently being developed. Absolute Antibody Ltd has announced a new partnership with the University of Zurich to offer synthetic nanobodies against the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Under the partnership, the original nanobodies and newly [...]
Amy Humphreys and Ben Cossor on how the pandemic is changing the way we think about healthcare technology. During the lockdown period, even the most technophobic amongst us have been required to make the leap over to the digital side, especially when it comes to health and wellbeing. So, what does this acceleration across many [...]
Scientists have developed a deep learning tool that could help to accelerate the process of predicting and detecting disease-driving mutations in genes. The universal programming tool, known as Janggu, streamlines the time-consuming process required for analysing genomics data and allows scientists to utilise deep learning to speed up their research. Deep learning models involve algorithms [...]
