The DHC Group, a portfolio of UK healthcare companies with the shared aim of supplying specialist outpatient pathways and diagnostic imaging services, has announced its acquisition of digital cardiology diagnostics provider ECG On-Demand. Liat Karni, CEO of DHC Group, spoke of the group’s “delight” in making this acquisition, adding: “They are a high quality provider of […]
NHS trusts have been selected to join the NHS InSites programme, which focuses on testing innovations in real-world settings, using a testing and evaluation model “co-developed by the participating Innovation Sites (InSites)”, along with NHS England, and Mid and South Essex ICS, who host the programme’s management office and coordination hub. The InSites programme sets […]
With concussion and head injury in sport the subject of increasing focus and research, professional mountain bikers will become the first to use a pioneering device to monitor head impact and its long term repercussions. Several of the world’s top riders will start the new season with the HIT device, which monitors the G-force of […]
NHS England has published new guidance for primary care, focusing on helping general practice teams to use data in understanding and managing variations in demand and capacity. The guidance focuses on building data collection and data analysis capabilities, such as for demand and capacity, with an aim to support challenges around peak demand times on the […]
A mobile application used to assess sports-related head and brain injuries is now being tested for detecting and monitoring neurological disorders. BrainEye’s mobile test is now being studied in clinical trials at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. It digitises the traditional eye movement test, which is done in 60 seconds through a mobile device, and […]
3D printing has emerged as a transformative technology in healthcare in recent years. The number of U.S. hospitals with centralized 3D printing facilities for point-of-care manufacturing has exploded, from just three in 2010 to 113 in 2019. With 3D printers now capable of making objects measured in microns, or millionths of a meter, the technology […]
