Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Researchers from the University of Arizona have developed a wearable device said to be capable of transmitting health data “2,400 times the distance of Wi-Fi without significant network infrastructure”. The need for network infrastructure can make wearable devices “inaccessible to rural and under-resourced communities”, but with this new device, health […]
We’ve taken a look at the German Federal Ministry of Health’s ‘Digital Together’ digitalisation strategy for health and care, outlining its aims, “strategic fields of action”, transformation approach and regulatory framework. The strategy outlines “core components” as follows: To read the strategy in full, please click here. Also on strategy, […]
We tuned in to the National Institute of Health (NIH) Research and Innovation Translation Partnerships In Point-of-Care Technologies Conference and Technology Showcase, to listen to expert panelists talking about the journey from concept to commercial availability in point-of-care technologies. Panelists included Eric Lai, team lead of the COVID-19 rapid acceleration […]
At Web Summit in Lisbon, described by Politico as “the world’s premier tech conference”, we had chance to speak to Pouria Mireshghi, co-founder and CEO of Iranian deeptech / medtech company NerveAide, about their recent work and ambitions over the next five years. Hi Pouria! Thanks for chatting with us. […]
The World Health Organisation has published results from a pilot project in Cambodia, trialling digitally-enabled community engagement approaches to HIV/AIDS. The organisation is now looking at ways to scale the project across additional sites in order to further strengthen community trust and confidence with digital health interventions. Running from 2020-2022, […]
The International Robotic Surgery Training Center (IRSTC) at The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (FAH-SYSU), was unveiled in September, marking a successful collaboration between FAH-SYSU and the University of California at Berkeley. The new center aims to provide “systematic and professional robotic surgery training for medical practitioners at home […]
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a concept paper detailing its cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare sector, outlining improvements including health sector-specific cybersecurity goals, the incentivising of cybersecurity practices, greater enforcement and accountability, and the expansion of HSS’s “one-stop shop” for cybersecurity support. Based on […]
A journal published in eClinicalMedicine, part of The Lancet Discovery Science, has explored digital exclusion and functional dependence in older populations in high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Authors performed a multi-cohort study, pooling individual-level data from five longitudinal cohort studies of older adults across 23 countries […]
RapidAI, a Californian AI and tech company, has announced milestones in advancing deep clinical AI, including the launch of a new AI healthcare platform and an AI solution to help identify suspected stroke cases at CT. The company is celebrating the launch of its new AI-based healthcare platform, Rapid Edge […]
May Pen Hospital, Jamaica, has become “among the first public health facilities” in the country to introduce an electronic health records system, according to the Ministry of Health & Wellness (MOHW) The hospital has announced the go-live of SystmOne on LinkedIn after an agreement was reached with the MOHW for […]
