Products & deployments

  • Times are hard, but trusts can still make positive IT choices

    Chief information officers can make future-proof investment decisions to support their clinical colleagues, drive efficiency and improve outcomes, even when budgets are tight and a general election is on the way. We talk to Rebecca Wise, sales director at Clanwilliam UK, the home of theatre management expert Bluespier, about the challenges, and how specialist systems [...]

  • Mindgruve and Kick It launch gamified app to tackle smoking

    Mindgruve has announced a new partnership with Kick It in the US to launch a gamified app aimed at helping users quick smoking. The collaboration focuses on a complete redesign of the app formerly known as NoButts and NoVape, now rebranded as the Kick It app, tailored to aid users in their journey to quit [...]

  • Transforming healthcare communication with AI

    Dr Iain McCowan is Director of AI at Dubber - a platform using natural language processing to understand and interpret conversations in healthcare and beyond. Over the past 25 years, Dr McCowan's career has bridged research and commercialisation in the field of speech and language AI, working in several research organisations as well as founding [...]

  • Digital-first for NHS as Somerset integrates Better Meds ePMA solution

    Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Better, CGI and Black Pear, has successfully integrated the Better Meds electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePMA) solution into the Somerset Integrated Digital e-Record (SIDeR) system. The integrated digital medicines platform, which is currently undergoing live clinical validation across admission areas, will improve care continuity, safety and patient [...]

  • Babson Diagnostics’ BetterWay blood testing service receives FDA Clearance

    Babson Diagnostics has announced that a key piece of its BetterWay Blood Testing ecosystem has achieved 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  The regulatory clearances pave the way for Babson to bring BetterWay—a first-of-its-kind blood testing service—to market next year. BetterWay aims to reimagine the entire blood testing process, using only [...]

  • Health Tech Enterprise to showcase support for health tech innovators at MEDICA

    Health Tech Enterprise will attend MEDICA 2023, where it will showcase its support services that help international med tech companies to access the EU and UK markets. The company will utilise the event to exhibit its service offerings, designed to support health technology companies across the full product development pathway. Health Tech Enterprise’s services include [...]

  • Pioneering paediatric pressure ulcer mattress to be showcased at MEDICA 2023

    A UK company specialising in the development and manufacture of ‘zero pressure’ technology will be at MEDICA 2023 to showcase its latest innovation – a paediatric pressure ulcer mattress. Manufactured by Chesterfield-based Rober, Airflex Trio Junior is an innovative, cost effective three cell-cycle alternating pressure air mattress specifically designed for children. The mattress features advanced [...]

  • Ceribell brings power of AI to seizure management

    A new AI-based algorithm provides clinicians with the ability to quickly and accurately detect, diagnose, and monitor electrographic status epilepticus in critically ill patients. Developed by health technology company, Ceribell, ClarityPro™, is an AI-based software algorithm within the Ceribell EEG system that analyses EEG waveforms to diagnose electrographic status epilepticus. Status epilepticus (SE) is a [...]

  • Managing complementary healthcare with innovative tech

    Tina Hsiao is COO of Soundry Health, a startup helping complementary healthcare providers to manage their businesses more efficiently and better communicate with patients. After finishing business school, Tina worked for QuickBooks and TurboTax developer, Intuit, before 'catching the startup bug' and joining WePay. Tina talks to Health Tech World about the challenges and opportunities [...]

  • YouTube launches new initiative to support healthcare content creators

    YouTube has launched new intiatives, including AI-enabled multi-language dubbing tools and a programme for supporting health professionals creating content highlighting underrepresented communities. YouTube, the popular video platform owned by Google, has unveiled two initiatives aimed at supporting healthcare content creators. These include AI-enabled Aloud, which offers multi-language dubbing for videos, and the expansion of the [...]