In a fire sale, Volkswagen is offering $13,000 off the 2023 ID.4 AWD Pro S Plus with a new lease deal as it gears up to launch new EVs. 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 lease deal offers $13,000 off The Volkswagen ID.4 was the fourth best-selling EV in the US last year, with sales up 84% from […]
Photo: Daimler Trucks North America Daimler Truck North America has delivered its first battery-electric Freightliner eM2 trucks to a New York-based trucking company. Series production of the medium-duty electric trucks started at the end of 2023. The Freightliner eM2, made at Daimler Truck North America’s factory in Portland, Oregon, is being distributed to customers across […]
SBRI Healthcare and the Health Innovation Network have awarded £885,000 to nine innovations with a focus on improving children and young people’s health. Projects awarded funding include a device to assess wheeze and asthma in children using machine learning; a smart inhaler for asthma patients; a solution to help diagnose children with suspected epilepsy; a […]
During our visit to Rewired 2024, we attended a session focusing on the NHS App which aimed to provide insight into the progress and strategy of the app, as well as hopes and plans for the future. Representatives from NHS England took part in the session, including Liz Clow, director of digital citizen services, and […]
Teen pregnancy increases the chances that a young woman will drop out of school and struggle with poverty, research has shown. Teenagers are also more likely to develop serious medical complications during pregnancy. Now a large study in Canada reports another disturbing finding: Women who were pregnant as teenagers are more likely to die before […]
We took a trip to Rewired this week to listen to insightful talks on various digital healthcare topics and chat to health tech professionals from the NHS and beyond – here, we’ll share some of our main takeaways from the cyber security stage. First up, we listened to Professor Daniel Ray, chief technology officer at […]
At Rewired 2024, we sat in on a session exploring what we have learned from virtual wards so far as well as potential next steps, featuring Dr Amanda Begley (executive director of digital transformation for the Health Innovation Network); Tara Donnelly (founder of Digital Care and previous chief digital officer for NHS England); and Umesh […]
Scientists at The Universities of Manchester and Oxford have developed an AI framework that can identify and track new and concerning COVID-19 variants and could help with other infections in the future. The framework combines dimension reduction techniques and a new explainable clustering algorithm called CLASSIX, developed by mathematicians at The University of Manchester. This […]
Foundation Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company, announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round. The investment seeks to slingshot the company into a period of growth backed by investors such as Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, Tuesday VC, Alt Capital, Box Group, Liquid Ventures, Exceptional Capital, Calm/Storm Ventures […]
ORLANDO – Pawan Kohli, strategic advisor at Redesign Health, spoke at HIMSS24 Venture Connect on experiencing failure and the lessons startups can learn to ensure they thrive in an ever changing digital health market. Global digital health funding was cut substantially in 2023 compared with 2022, while deals dropped to the lowest level since 2016. Additionally, there were just […]
