The German automaker’s chief financial officer believes the Volkswagen Group will be able to deliver an affordable EV with new, cheaper battery materials and streamlined production. To accelerate EV production and maintain its position as a market leader, VW revealed a nearly $200 billion (€180 billion) investment in March. With a significant portion (68%) dedicated […]
Two and a half years after beginning development of its flagship EV, the Ocean, Fisker Inc. is delivering it to its first US customers. As a Southern California-based automaker selling an EV named after the water it’s headquartered near, it is quite on-brand that the first US deliveries of the Fisker Ocean begin in the […]
NHS staff will be given the latest AI technology to diagnose and treat patients more quickly after the Health and Social Care Secretary announced a new £21 million fund. Trusts across the health service will be able to apply to the AI Diagnostic Fund to accelerate the deployment of the most promising AI imaging and decision […]
Nervecentre’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution has gone live across Nottingham University Hospitals. The City Hospital went live with the system in May, across two weekends, and Queen’s Medical Centre moved to the new system earlier this month. It means the hospitals have moved away from a paper process to the EPMA solution. For the go-live […]
As the NHS gears up to celebrate its 75th anniversary this summer, Paul Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Radar Healthcare discusses the innovation it continues to inspire. In health technology the focus is on looking forward. To create the new generation of software, to update and enhance systems, to innovate and break new ground. We’ve […]
Instead of delivery vans clogging up the streets of your city, package delivery could soon be handled near you by fleets of four-wheeled cargo e-bikes with spacious van-like rear ends. That’s already the case in many European cities, and now it could be spreading even farther around the globe thanks to a new partnership between […]
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £21 million in funding for artificial intelligence technologies. It’s intended to enable the roll-out of AI technology which, according to the announcement, will “help diagnose patients more quickly for conditions such as cancers, strokes and heart conditions”. The announcement sets out the following key points about the […]
New analysis published today by the Health Foundation shows that 800,000 (12%) fewer patients in England were admitted to hospital in 2022 than in 2019, while at the same time the average length of time patients spent in hospital (the ‘length of stay’) increased.?? These trends – a reversal of those seen in the decades […]
Dr Marzena Nieroda, an expert in healthcare marketing and commercialisation, talks to Health Tech World about making health tech more accessible and inclusive. Technological innovations are making healthcare more accessible than ever. However, barriers remain between digital health tools and vulnerable groups such as older people, those from minority backgrounds and refugees. Digital technologies include […]
For our latest interview, we chatted to Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS’s director of digital transformation Adam Lavington. Adam shared the key digital lessons he has learned throughout his career, the ICB’s digital priorities, his hopes for the future, and more. Hi Adam, can you introduce yourself and tell us about your career to date? […]
