A new partnership between the University of Essex and social enterprise Provide will examine if artificial intelligence (AI) can help the NHS cope with increasing health demands across the UK. The three-year, Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) will look at how technology can help the NHS deal with the increasing demands of the modern…
Barrett Coakley, senior product and industry marketing manager at field service management platform ClickSoftware, discusses why home healthcare is in need of a major technology injection. Home healthcare has seen a major transformation in recent years, including the increasing importance of patient-centred care. This means that the patient and provider are partners in care delivery, resulting…
The first real-time, artificial intelligence-based (AI) system has been developed for use in the operating room by healthtech company, Digital Surgery. The company’s AI platform is designed to aid surgeons in the OR by reducing risk and making surgery safer. By utilising huge amounts of data, Digital Surgery can provide road maps for surgeons, helping…
To celebrate the NHS’ 70th anniversary, technology company Nuance has released an infographic on how clinical documentation has evolved within the NHS. The company details the huge technological changes that have occurred over the course of the organisation’s 70 years. It details how in 1948, staff were entirely reliant on pen-and-paper to create patient records…
Within the healthtech sector, start-ups offer perhaps the most exciting range of products and solutions designed to improve the health and wellbeing of populations. Launched in 2017 as a competitive grant, the Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London is designed to help start-ups with innovative healthcare technologies scale-up their product and advance their business. The competition gives…