Health-tech company iPlato Healthcare has agreed to a partnership with Health Navigator, a lifestyle coaching service to help people with long-term health conditions. The partnership will give NHS patients using iPlato’s services access to the Proactive Health Coaching (PHC) programme, designed by Health Navigator. The programme gives patients around 6 months of tailored one-to-one health…
A service at Boots which scans a range of moles and pigmented lesions has been criticised for charging customers. Skin cancer charity Melanoma UK has spoken out against Boots for its new service. The service is provided by Boots and its subsidiary, ScreenCancer UK. Boots state that the service ‘doesn’t provide a diagnosis of skin…
Telehealth organisaiton Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has been awarded a £4 million investment from health cash plan provider Medicash. The partnership is intended to help Now Healthcare Group further develop its artificial intelligence and machine learning offering through its mobile apps and online products. The company states this will enable the faster development of auto…
Tech giant Apple has hired the executive director of Stanford Medicine’s centre for digital health, Dr. Sumbal Desai, CNBC have reported. Dr. Desai will take up a senior role within the company, though it’s still unclear as to what she will be working on. Dr. Desai has previously worked on a telehealth project at Stanford…
When people think about digital health, they imagine technologies enabling change both within and outside of healthcare institutions. What they don’t realise is that online technology will always provide opportunities for those wanting to take advantage of it. A recent article from CNBC has revealed that doctors are being given a hard time because of telehealth…