Monday, May 20, 2024
Last week, HTN attended Web Summit in Lisbon, described by Politico as “the world’s premier tech conference”. Bringing together over 70,000 attendees from 153 countries, Web Summit is a celebration of everything that technology has to offer across different industries, with healthcare as a key player. We attended talks to […]
Last month, Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its new Open Innovation Initiative, in collaboration with MIT, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Tulane University School of Medicine, and Samsung Medical Center. The new initiative will search for improvements to the digital health ecosystem, with research enabling Samsung to “develop its technology […]
At the G2O summit in India, the WHO announced that it would be launching a new Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH), which will support the implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020–2025. The GIDH will “converge and convene global standards, best practices and resources to fast track digital health system […]
Amazon has launched One Medical, a healthcare benefit for Prime members, which provides “24/7 on-demand virtual care nationwide and easy to schedule office visits at any of One Medical’s hundreds of locations across the U.S.”. In a press release dated November 8th, 2023, Amazon revealed how it plans to “reinvent” […]
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Collaboration Village initiative, conducted in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft, has highlighted examples of the metaverse’s potential to “revolutionise” industries including health and care. With around 140 Village Partners including businesses, governments, civil society organisations and academic institutions, the platform unites leaders and decision-makers […]
12 small to medium enterprises based in India, have been selected for Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber’s Propel@YH Boot Camp, a programme designed to bring global health innovations to the region and to provide the SMEs with support and masterclass content delivered by a range of healthcare partners. The twelve […]
We’ve been taking a look at international health tech research over the past weeks at HTN; in August, we explored electronic health records across Africa, before moving on to look at digital education and training in China and Austria. In this edition, we’re taking a look at EHR experiences in Sweden. In […]
MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans – The challenge involves more than just a blurry JPEG. Fixing motion artifacts in medical imaging requires a more sophisticated approach. Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health – MIT News Researchers from MIT have […]
Amazon has announced the general availability of its AWS HealthImaging service, designed to help providers build cloud-native applications to store, analyse and share medical imaging data at petabyte-scale. The service is said to enable all of an organisation’s medical imaging applications access to “a single authoritative copy of data without duplication” […]
Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Epic through the delivery of a Microsoft Azure Large Instances, a “highly scalable public cloud” that is “designed to achieve the scale needed to run a large Epic electronic health record database – up to 50 million database accesses per […]
