For the latest poll in the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, we took to Twitter and LinkedIn to ask our audience: What does your organisation need most to improve patient flow? Participants ranged from various backgrounds and settings such as NHS organisations, researchers and healthcare innovators. A slight majority vote of 36.5% agreed […]
Cleveland Clinic London has become the first hospital in London to successfully perform a total knee replacement procedure with the assistance of an augmented reality-based surgical platform that was designed with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Consultant orthopaedic hip and knee surgeon, Mr Panagiotis Gikas, led the surgical team during the procedure on July 18. The patient […]
Mable Therapy, a digital health platform for children’s speech and language therapy and counselling services, has secured £3.1 million in Series A investment from Gresham House Ventures. The funding is set to help Mable expand its technology offering including the development of an intra-therapy app and school screening tools to support educators in assessing students’ […]
A platform which allows an AI model to recognise abnormalities in anatomical structures has been developed by King’s College London and the University of Surrey in collaboration with Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust and Oral Health Foundation, with the project aiming to “provide a one-stop solution to both collect and annotate dental radiographs and assist […]
New Parkinson’s app uses metronome beats to train gait A new mobile app for people with Parkinson’s Disease helps them walk better using metronome beats. The gait re-training tool, developed as part of a larger clinical trial for PD research, delivers rhythmic metronomic beats that trigger movement. Now developed separately as an app called Walking Tall, it […]
TikTok joins youth mental health campaign in Korea Social media platform TikTok in South Korea, together with the non-profit organisation Mental Health Korea, has tied up with the National Center for Mental Health to promote the mental well-being of young people. Based on their memorandum of understanding, the organisations aim to improve youth mental health […]
The Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS and Isles of Scilly transformed patient experience with our patient engagement portal, Patient Hub. The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It serves a population of around 470,000 people, a figure that increases significantly […]
A new Monash University-led international partnership has delivered an International Guideline to improve the lives of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a neglected health condition. The 2023 International Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Guideline and AskPCOS Patient App, led by the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI) at Monash University, was launched online and is published in […]
Less than a week after teasing a new “collectible masterpiece” codenamed the B95, Automobili Pininfarina has just unveiled the EV – which we have learned is called the Barchetta. This extremely limited production run electric hypercar feature blends past and present with an entirely open top and a “world’s first” aero screen design. Such rarity […]
The News Binge drinking among adults aged 35 to 50 occurred at record prevalence in 2022, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health. A new study found that nearly 30 percent of people in this age group reported binge drinking in 2022, continuing a consistent upward trend in the behavior. In 2012, […]
