Autumn. For most of us, the season is marked by yellow leaves, shorter days, and chillier mornings. For those who work in GP practices, it’s associated with something rather different: seasonal flu, and the swell of patients who shuffle in, sniffling and sneezing, coughing and aching. Vaccination clinics open. Waiting rooms fill up (if they’re […]
Digital health and social care agency Healthcare Innovation Consortium (HIC) is launching a new programme aimed at combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at Global Health 2023. The AMR innovation programme, in collaboration with Mecomed and Barts Life Sciences, targets health tech innovators with solutions that can directly address AMR or be adapted to do so. The aim is […]
Britain demonstrated yet again this week that the medical research in our universities and academic institutions can make a global impact. The World Health Organization on Monday approved the use in children of the R21/Matrix-M malaria
Here’s what happened on Day 2! The second day of Femtech Tokyo continues with placing femtech and femcare products and innovations in the spotlight. Retailers, manufacturers, local governments, and medical institutions united to promote a wide array of solutions that address different challenges and concerns women face. Visitors were able to test out products presented by 200 exhibitors. Networking […]
The second Health Tech World Awards are picking up pace. Our first event, concluding with an online ceremony in April this year, celebrated the brightest lights in health tech, from leaders to innovations to startups to digital health apps. This year, we’ve decided to shake things up by also recognising the vital professional services firms […]
Imprivata has announced that Imprivata Identity Governance now supports the provisioning of NHSmail accounts in the NHS England shared central tenant to reduce manual and repetitive workloads when on- and off-boarding staff. The integration expands Imprivata’s continued commitment to address the critical challenges of frontline staff at NHS organisations. This new capability enables organisations to fully manage […]
National Care Group will receive over £300,000 to improve the quality of medication management and recording and promote independence in taking medication using an electronic medication administration record system. Shropshire Council, in partnership with domiciliary care providers, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB, My Home Life and TEC suppliers will use funding of almost £1.2 million […]
For our latest poll as part of our Health Tech Trends series (sponsored by InterSystems), we took to LinkedIn to pose a question to our audience: what do you think could improve the success of patient portals and patient-facing tech? We provided four options for respondents to choose from: increase awareness and engagement; develop staff […]
Tesla prices have been falling all year, and today we’ve got another price cut to report on most trims of Tesla’s most popular models, leaving the Model 3 at the lowest price it’s ever been. Model Y – Long Range & Performance are $2K cheaper The Model Y Long Range and Model Y Performance are […]
An article was published in Jamia Open earlier this year entitled ‘A systematic review of the effectiveness of patient education through patient portals’, with the research team noting “patient portals are becoming a powerful tool for patient education and engagement, and show promise as a means of achieving the quadruple aim of healthcare” – to […]
