Public health
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Maja Schmidt Royal Commission Industrial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Neuranics Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of premature death in the UK, and responsible for 66,000 deaths each year. Detecting heart rhythm abnormalities that indicate ischaemic heart disease outside controlled hospital environments remains a significant challenge. While [...]
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 [...]
Mikael Kågebäck is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sleep Cycle. The company was awarded ‘Digital Health App of the Year’ at the 2025 Health Tech World Awards. We called up Kågebäck over Zoom to learn more about the science of sleep analysis and the company’s wider health ambitions. Around a third of adults worldwide [...]
One hundred NHS diagnostic centres in England now provide MRI scans, endoscopies and other tests in the evenings and weekends, the government has said. Thirty-seven more community diagnostic centres (CDCs) now run 12 hours a day, seven days a week compared with July 2024, taking the total with extended hours to 100. The 170 CDCs [...]
US medical experts warn against using ChatGPT for health advice after a 60-year-old man developed bromism following the chatbot’s dietary guidance. The patient developed bromide toxicity after consulting the AI app about eliminating table salt from his diet and subsequently taking sodium bromide for three months. Bromism, a “well-recognised” syndrome in the early 20th century, [...]
By Fiona Garín Mc Donagh, VP Strategic Marketing, BD EMEA What does sustainable healthcare really mean, not just for our planet, but for the people who deliver and receive care every day? Too often, sustainability is viewed only through the lens of environmental impact. While reducing carbon emissions and medical waste is of course critical, [...]
