Web content editor Ian Bolland spoke to Lina Chan, founder and CEO of femtech startup Adia Health. She talks about how Adia came about following her experience with pregnancy loss and conception, as well as her thoughts on the femtech market place. Give us a bit of background on Adia? What made you start it?…
Digital health coaching platform Liva Healthcare has been recognised as one of the top ten Healthtech Innovations on the Digital Leaders 100 (DL100) list for 2019. The platform is designed to tackle chronic diseases through changes in lifestyle and behaviour. The programme has been proven to halt and reverse Type 2 diabetes by helping patients change their lifestyle. Its platform supports patients in monitoring and managing their lifestyle with…
Online appointments are helping patients from as young as three days old and as old as 104-years-old, according to data from digital health provider Push Doctor. The findings suggest young professionals are among the earliest adopters of digital health when it first became available and continue to represent a sizeable portion of patients. Push Doctor…
New regulations have been unveiled by the pharmacy regulator the General Pharmaceutical Council for the purchasing of medicines online. The regulator has introduced guidelines to try and make sure medicines are clinically appropriate for patients. These include processes to carry out identity checks on people obtaining medicines, the ability to identify requests for medicines that are…
The NHS and councils are introducing a digital portal to allow health and social care staff to see how many vacancies there are in local care homes. It is aimed to save time and help people get the right care or return home as quickly as possible. The portal is accessible on any device, and…