Products & deployments
Paxman’s recent public offer to acquire its competitor Dignitana has been accepted, signifying a historical milestone for the two companies and heralding the start of a brand-new chapter of working together to advance side effect management for cancer patients around the world. Paxman and Dignitana will now combine, creating a stronger, unified company - Paxman AB [...]
By John Tinson of Ilika Technologies Neurostimulation technology is a rapidly evolving field of medicine which has the potential to transform management of chronic pain, neurological disorders and psychiatric conditions. Implanted neurostimulation devices, such as spinal cord stimulators, deep brain stimulators and Vagus nerve stimulators work by delivering targeted electrical impulses to specific neural structures. [...]
New research shows a clear association between brain tumour size and mortality, with earlier diagnosis linked to improved survival outcomes. The findings suggest that detecting brain cancer just one month earlier could reduce annual mortality risk by 18–28 per cent. Clinical-stage diagnostics company Dxcover Limited analysed records from 1,196 patients to evaluate how tumour size [...]
A research team led by Professor Hyuk-jun Kwon of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), with integrated Master’s and Ph.D. student Hyungtae Lim as first author, has developed a “next-generation AI electronic nose” capable of distinguishing scents like the human olfactory system does and analyzing them using artificial [...]
Parents of hospitalised children experienced significantly reduced anxiety after using virtual reality meditation programmes, a new study has found. The research, conducted at Stanford Medicine, showed that a short guided VR meditation lowered parental stress by around 30%, with Spanish-speaking families seeing particularly strong benefits. The team trialled the intervention at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital [...]
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT has gone live with a clinical desktop using the combination of Citrix and IGEL, with an Imprivata layer to provide single sign on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). The combined solution, called ‘Follow Me Desktop’, has been rolled out across both the Trust’s hospitals and its maternity unit, covering 45 inpatient wards [...]
Healthcare teams responsible for paediatric care in Ireland are to save significant time in accessing important diagnostic imaging and reports, with the help of a new agreement with medical imaging and cybersecurity company Sectra. Signed in January 2025, following a four-month procurement, the five-year contract with Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) will enable an important part [...]
Harris County Pathways Community HUB (PCH) is Level 1 certified Pathways Community HUB housed within The Network of Behavioral Health Providers, has partnered with CardMedic, an innovative digital platform aimed at bridging communication divides in healthcare. The collaboration aims to address social determinants of health and ensure access to equitable care for all, particularly individuals [...]
Open Medical is working with the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre’s Rural Centre of Excellence on a referral management plan, as part of a research and development scheme to help transform the community occupational therapy service in Moray - and beyond. This will include integration with self-assessment and digital assessment tools to support self-management [...]
Click Therapeutics, Inc. has obtained FDA marketing authorisation for the first prescription digital therapeutic for the preventive treatment of episodic migraine. The FDA granted the De Novo Classification Request for the company’s prescription digital therapeutic, CT-132, for the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in patients 18 years of age and older. It is intended for [...]
