Products & deployments
OrganOx, a company that makes devices to keep organs alive outside the human body, has been bought by Japan’s Terumo Corporation in a “landmark” US$1.5bn (£1.1bn) deal. The Oxford University spin-out’s technology has preserved organs for transplantation and, according to its creators, has already saved 6,000 lives. The machines maintain organs by recreating body-like conditions [...]
A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient functioned for nine days, in what researchers say is a world first. The attempt marks the first pig lung transplant into a human, after limited progress with pig kidneys and hearts. Xenotransplantation – moving organs from animals to humans – may ease organ shortages, though [...]
More than 1,000 bladder cancer patients a year can now access an NHS treatment shown in trials to double survival compared with standard chemotherapy. The combination therapy, available from today, has been described as "one of the most hopeful advances in decades" for people with the disease. Around 1,250 patients in England each year could [...]
NHS trusts in Cumbria and North East England have launched what is claimed to be the world’s first smartphone test for type 2 diabetes, cutting diagnosis time to under 10 minutes. The Diabetes Health Check app shortens diagnosis from months to less than 10 minutes, with a nationwide rollout expected later this year. The government [...]
ARC, the global healthcare transformation engine and innovation arm of the Sheba Medical Center, has announced a collaboration with Revealense, creators of a neurological-AI engine for analysing behavioural DNA in video footage. The collaboration establishes a joint venture focused on delivering an advanced neurological diagnostic solution. The joint solution will deliver precise, clinically validated diagnoses [...]
By Dr Constantin Jabarin, CCIO, Altera Digital Health In acute care, seconds matter. The tools we carry or can’t carry often determine what kind of care we can deliver. And too often, they’re failing us. As a practicing emergency clinician, I don’t work at a desk. I work in motion, across departments, at the patient’s [...]
A computer scientist's view on the problem, by Kevin Monk, CEO, SARD. Our Electronic Health Records are a mess. A caveat I don’t work in EHR. I’m a computer scientist who runs a workforce optimisation consultancy in the NHS. But I live next door to the EHR people and as a concerned neighbour I poke [...]
The government’s plan for the NHS is a huge document. Jane Stephenson, chief executive of SPARK TSL, argues the key to unlocking its digital ambitions is to consider what it has to say about the shift from CDs to digital music. How can trusts and health boards make the same shift from analogue to digital [...]
Torbay Council has extended its partnership with leading local government software provider, System C, to implement its Liquidlogic adult social care case management and finance system across the region in Devon. The five year agreement will seamlessly integrate adult case management with the council's existing Liquidlogic Children’s social care case management system, also provided by [...]
Neurovalens, a Belfast-based neurotech company, has raised £6m (€6.95m) to support its commercial expansion in the US and other global markets. The funds will be used to boost sales of its current medical devices and pursue additional approvals from US regulators. Its technology delivers mild electrical stimulation to targeted parts of the brain and nervous [...]
