Weight Watchers decision to launch Kurbo, a health coaching application aimed at younger people, has been described as alarming by the UK medical director for Liva Healthcare. Kurbo has been designed to “help kids and teens reach a healthier weight and build healthy habits.” It works by using a traffic light system for certain food…
Ian Bolland caught up with Dr Tom Oakley, CEO of Feedback, about its medical grade imaging app Bleepa, which will be launched at the NHS Expo on 4-5 September in Manchester. The app is accessible through smartphones, tablets and desktops which facilitate clinical messaging and reviews clinical grade imaging. The directors at Feedback believe Bleepa…
The healthcare sector is facing a range of cyberattacks and malicious activity, according to a report from cybersecurity experts FireEye. Medical cyber physical systems, or biomedical devices, are becoming an increasing target for hackers, the report suggests. Though the report says the company isn’t aware of any malicious activity against personal medical devices, it highlights…
After news emerged that a multi-disciplinary team led by the University of Surrey successfully filed the first ever patent applications for inventions autonomously created by AI without a human inventor, Ian Bolland caught up with team leader Professor Ryan Abbott about the potential knock-on effect for life sciences. Professor Abbott began by explaining the potential…
Figures released by data security firm Egress suggest that human error remains the main cause of personal data breaches. Nearly a fifth of all data breaches (18%) were reported in healthcare, and according to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon, healthcare was the only industry where the insider threat created more data breaches…