A wellness app and patient services company is calling for everyone to have access to their personal health data. The call follows a report in The Times where trade economic Alan Winters, director of the Trade Policy Observatory at Sussex University, said clauses on data sharing and algorithms that US negotiators want inserted into a…
Virtual reality healthtech firm Mindwaves Ventures is expanding its services by opening an office in Leeds. Mindwave has worked with six NHS trusts and an NHS sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) across England to help them design and develop their personal health record (PHR) platforms, and has also developed and delivered apps for academic research…
With the UK general election on the horizon, what are the implications for medtech and life sciences? Brexit was covered in depth during a Healthcare Disparities event I attended in Manchester earlier this year. Though the supply of devices and medicines should be unaffected beyond 31 January 2020, there is the question of what happens…
After writing about the effects of ransomware on the healthcare industry as part of an ongoing series of analyses, Ian Bolland caught up with blog author Allan Liska about the challenges healthcare faces. You can read his analysis, here. How can healthcare providers become less of an ‘easy’ target to ransomware actors? Strong defences are…
At HETT 2019 Ian Bolland sat down with Patrick Mitchell, director of innovation and transformation at Health Education England as they discussed the changes that are needed to see a more digitally literate workforce within the NHS. Mitchell worked on the Topol Review as part of the review board and feels that NHS boards need…