Products & deployments
By Julia Scott, pharmacist and CxIO at Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, digitalisation is no longer a distant goal, it’s a burning platform. At Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, the implementation of our electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system, Better Meds, was not just a technological shift; it was [...]
Better and Speeds Healthcare, an outsourced medicines management provider to the independent sector, have finalised an agreement to roll out the Better Meds solution across 55 mental health sites in the UK. The strategic partnership will see services move from manual recording on paper charts and whiteboards to streamlined, electronic prescribing and medicine administration (ePMA) [...]
Many off-the-shelf self-test kits claim to detect conditions but offer little or no evidence to support their accuracy, researchers have found. Researchers from the University of Birmingham purchased 30 self-test kits in 2023 from UK supermarkets, pharmacies and health shops. The kits included tests for bowel cancer, blood cholesterol, menopause and vitamin deficiency — conditions [...]
Blue Longevity Clinic has raised €2m to expand its longevity medicine clinics in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, supported by proprietary diagnostic protocols and digital tools. The Sofia-based healthtech provider plans to open centres in Sofia, Athens and Istanbul in September this year, offering services aimed at extending healthspan — the number of years lived in [...]
East of England Ambulance Service has become the first in the UK to offer live video guidance for 999 callers reporting cardiac arrests. The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) will use live video to help bystanders perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) — chest compressions and rescue breaths to restart the heart — following a [...]
Biostate AI has secured strategic research partnerships in the U.S. and India, and a joint venture in China, dramatically expanding the global dataset for their RNA sequencing-based precision medicine solutions. Biostate AI uses RNA sequencing, a snapshot of gene activity, to build AI models that accurately guide drug development, therapy selection and personalised health predictions. [...]
Hospitals in the UK can now make personalised cancer treatments and gene therapies on site, potentially cutting delays from weeks or months to just days. The Human Medicines (Amendment) (Modular Manufacture and Point of Care) Regulations 2025, which came into force today (23 July), make the UK the first country with a dedicated legal framework [...]
A new AI model could speed up drug development by reducing the number of parameters needed to predict how molecules bind to proteins — a vital step in designing new drugs. The Predicting Affinity Through Homology (PATH) algorithm cuts the billions of variables used in traditional deep learning, allowing predictions to be traced to specific [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of health technology. Partnership to revolutionise treatment of liver tumours Proximie - a health technology platform digitising operating rooms - has announced a partnership with HistoSonics, the manufacturer of the Edison Histotripsy System1 and novel histotripsy therapy platforms used for non-invasive treatment of liver [...]
Femtech company Daye has secured a patent for its organic tampon, which can be used for both menstrual care and diagnostics. The patent covers the tampon’s design and manufacturing process. It features plastic-free materials, a protective sleeve to prevent fibre shedding, dual surfaces for absorbing fluid, and a cupped tip that expands evenly to reduce [...]
