U.S. oil prices have climbed to their highest level since late October, as the rally in the key commodity becomes something equity investors cannot afford to look past. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose modestly Wednesday and at one point breached $86 a barrel, bringing the U.S. oil benchmark’s year-to-date gain to 19%. Brent crude […]
Tens of thousands of children and adults living with type 1 diabetes across England are set to receive an ‘artificial pancreas’ in a world-first initiative being rolled out by the NHS. The groundbreaking device continually monitors a person’s blood glucose, then automatically adjusts the amount of insulin given to them through a pump. Local NHS […]
Leading corporate services provider, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), has launched a unique Digital Health Advisory Services framework agreement, the only one of its kind in the UK, designed to help the NHS augment the digital, data and technology (DDaT) skills and capabilities of its workforce. The NHS is seeing significant technological adoptions. From algorithm-assisted diagnosis to electronic […]
It’s a challenging time to work in healthcare. Many countries around the world with booming economies have one thing in common; their healthcare systems are ageing, extremely complex and increasingly not fit-for-purpose. This is largely due to people living longer but less well, soaring costs of treating people with multiple comorbidities, ageing hospital infrastructure, and […]
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new Virtual Autism Hub to offer non-clinical advice, with the aim of bolstering support for autistic people and their families across Lincolnshire. The hub employs specialist autism navigators, whose role includes providing information and guidance by email, phone, video call or face-to-face appointment. These navigators can also […]
NHS England has shared an update around GP telephony, stating that 92 percent of GP practices in England now have cloud-based systems in place with remaining practices agreeing dates for upgrades within the next month. During trials, NHSE reports that use of digital phone systems “increased patients’ ability to get through to their GP practice […]
Positive Solutions has become the latest pharmacy system supplier to develop and test technology to help deliver an Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in Wales. Positive Solutions, whose software is used in pharmacies across Wales including Well and Morrisons, is developing its system to enable it to be ready to receive prescriptions digitally rather than on […]
What Is Spatial Computing? Spatial computing combines physical and digital realities into one space. Rather than reading information on a two-dimensional screen — a phone or laptop, for example — spatial computing technology allows people to process and interact with data in a 3D format. Virtual, augmented and mixed reality are all forms of spatial […]
The Core Components of a SOAR Solution SOAR brings incident response, automation and orchestration, and threat intelligence together in a central solution. Unlike security solutions that can impose the burden of yet another tool to manage, SOAR is designed to reduce the effort required of the IT team. A unique combination of capabilities aims specifically […]
Elon Musk’s xAI, an artificial intelligence startup, has poached yet another engineer from Tesla in a clear conflict of interest. Last year, Musk launched a new AI startup, xAI, and it has been a controversial endeavor – primarily because he has himself described Tesla as “an AI company”. A few years prior, Musk had left OpenAI […]
