More ways to listen Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kathleen McLaughlin has a rare chronic illness and needs regular treatments using people’s blood plasma. She started researching the US blood plasma industry a decade ago and has written a book, Blood Money, about […]
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has announced that Andrea Linna has joined the firm’s regulatory department as a partner. Linna will be a part of the firm’s Digital Health industry group and its FDA Regulatory, Healthcare and Consumer Products practice. She will be based remotely from Chicago and work closely with colleagues and clients across […]
Using talking therapies to effectively treat depression in adults over the age of 45 may be linked with reduced rates of future cardiovascular disease, according to new research from University College London (UCL). In the first-of-its-kind study, researchers assessed whether evidence-based psychological therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), used to treat depression could play […]
A first-of-type integration between an NHS health trust’s EPR and its pharmacy stock control system is improving patient safety, simplifying and speeding up the turnaround of medications and reducing administrative burdens to create more time for clinical interventions. The interface was created by IT specialists from The Health Informatics Service (THIS) for the two hospitals […]
By uploading a photo of a skin concern, the user will receive the top 5 skin disease results ranked in order of probability within seconds. Over 2.7 million people are now able to access this feature anonymously on the UK’s largest independent medical app, which lets users order repeat medication, book GP appointments and access local support services. […]
Multi-centre randomised self-controlled trial comparing standard of care (SoC) with and without the geko™ device in patients with hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers (VLUs), is published in the International Wound Journal. The study results show the geko™ device, combined with multi-layer compression, doubles the rate of healing vs. compression alone1. VLUs affect one in 500 adults […]
Innovating Care in Machine Learning Phoenix Children’s Hospital Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer David Higginson offered his insights on the practical applications of machine learning at his organization. “We don’t use vendors to do this. We build these products ourselves,” Higginson said. ML models are bound to local data, so taking a vendor’s […]
Consumerization is a buzzword in the health IT space today as companies such as CVS and Amazon alter consumer expectations around how they want to engage with healthcare. With an influx of digital solutions, healthcare organizations must be intentional about the technologies they adopt as part of their digital transformation strategies. The successful implementation of […]
The range of ways in which technology can be used to support and improve health and social care is vast. From artificial intelligence hitting the news to the efforts around integrating NHS trusts and systems, there’s an awful lot happening in the health tech community. Here, we’ll be narrowing it down to explore three studies […]
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