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Opportunities and challenges for pharma-healthtech partnerships

  • November 7, 2023
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Partnerships between pharma and healthtech have great potential—but delivering on those partnerships requires overcoming challenges. Expectation and communications can sometimes make effective collaboration difficult. Listen as Ameya Phadke, patient non-pharma solutions leader at Chiesi Group, Dennis Hermann, Head of Europe at Kaia Health and Dan Weinstein, associate principal digital medicine practice lead at ZS, discuss […]

Crowdsourcing and drug development: The power of collective intelligence

  • November 7, 2023
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Opening up problems to people outside of the organisation, or even the sector, could yield better and faster results for biopharma companies.  Crowdsourcing has become an essential part of the R&D process in many sectors, but biopharma and the life sciences are lagging behind as they continue to rely on a closed, traditional approach. A […]

‘We have a fantastic opportunity to do something really meaningful’

  • November 7, 2023
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NUA Surgical is an award-winning startup developing innovative surgical medtech for obstetrics and gynaecology. The company is a product of the BioInnovate Ireland Fellowship: a medical device innovation programme aimed at identifying unmet clinical needs and aligning them with new market opportunities. NUA Surgical’s inaugural device, the SteriCISION C-Section Retractor, has been designed to reduce […]

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Interview: “No-one’s got a magic formula, but what we do have is learning” Cara Afzal, Health Innovation Manchester – htn

  • November 7, 2023
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For our latest interview, we spoke with Cara Afzal, programme director for data and digital at Health Innovation Manchester, about her journey and experiences with digital in healthcare. We started by asking Cara how she got into digital and data and how this journey had brought her to where she is now. “I started my […]

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Health tech supplier partners with UK Brain BioLink, supporting consent-gathering for neuroscience research – htn

  • November 7, 2023
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A health tech start-up with links to the University of Oxford, OX.DH, has been named as the industry partner for UK Brain BioLink – aiming to tackle the “fragmented” nature of consent gathering for research projects by implementing a digital consent and community outreach programme, with funding from the Medical Research Council. The projects are […]

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Poll: which area in health tech would you prioritise this year? – htn

  • November 7, 2023
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As part of our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked our HTN audience: which area would you prioritise this year? We received 80 votes from our audience, with participants from a range of settings and specialties, with options to choose from including improve digital culture/skills, infrastructure and security, availability of data/use of […]

The US’s busiest rail corridor just got a $16.4B boost – why that’s huge

  • November 7, 2023
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The Biden administration just announced $16.4 billion to upgrade the Northeast Corridor’s rail infrastructure – here’s why that’s going to impact a lot of people. The Biden administration’s Infrastructure Law, which passed in November 2021, earmarked $66 billion for rail investment – the most significant (and well overdue) investment in passenger rail since Amtrak was […]