Medelinked’s programme accelerates the adoption of digitised health
Medelinked has launched a programme to accelerate the development and adoption of medical devices, sensors and medical, wellness and fitness apps by healthcare consumers and service providers,...
View ArticleNestlé and Medidata partner on mobile health clinical trial
Medidata’s cloud technology platform and mobile health (mHealth) solutions are supporting a clinical trial conducted by Nestlé using sensors, wearables and apps. Underway in China, the two-year...
View ArticleApple Watch gets medical-grade heart monitoring tech
Apple Watch is using AliveCor’s Kardia Band, a medical-grade electrocardiogram (ECG), to help wearers with chronic heart conditions monitor their heart rates. Users can record a single-lead ECG by...
View ArticleNearly half of UK’s pharmacists to digitally view GP records
EMIS Health is to partner with Celesio UK and provide nearly half of UK pharmacies with a digital view of their patient’s GP records. The contract with Celesio UK expands the companies’ current...
View ArticleWearables: why they belong in healthcare
James Norman, public sector CIO of EMC, talks about the rise in wearable devices and discusses why they should be used to monitor patients. Many wearable devices are currently used for general wellness...
View ArticleDr Now goes back to school
Now Healthcare Group is helping to reduce teacher absences at up to 3,500 schools as part of its partnership with Schools Advisory Service (SAS), a provider of staff absence insurance SAS will be...
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How digital health is changing the consumer sales model
Arthur D. Little’s Sweedish partners Ulrica Sehlstedt and Nils Bohlin, its US partner Fredrik de Maré and principle Richard Beetz talk about how digital health is enhancing providers’ focus on the...
View ArticleEMC gives NHS Foundation Trust faster access to patient data
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ( LHCH ) is using EMC tech to improve patient electronic health records (EHR) and paperless services. EMC announced that LHCH has installed a...
View ArticleNew model claims to offer more than care.data
ZibdyHealth, has launched “Smart HIE” (Health Information Exchange), to provide patient medical record interoperability, transfer data ownership to the patient and provide users with tools to manage...
View ArticleApple CareKit: making a play in patient self-monitoring
Apple has released CareKit to help patients self-monitor their conditions and a new module for ResearchKit that will enable the use of genetics in mobile medical research. CareKit CareKit is a new...
View ArticleAccelerator boosts digital health in the NHS
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator to help smaller digital health businesses develop health care technology specifically for the NHS. The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, is part of DigitalHealth.London...
View ArticleHealth Call alerts dietitians when care home patients are undernourished
Care homes in Ireland have been using Health Call, a digital undernutritian service that automatically alerts dietitians if patients need dietary help. Health Call was commissioned by the Southern...
View ArticleNHS visitor tracker saves doctors time
NHS Tayside has installed a digital visitor tracking service to reduce time spent on administrative paperwork and increase time healthcare professionals can spend with patients. NHS Tayside has...
View ArticleVerily is building a ‘Google’ for doctors
Verily, formerly known as Google Life Sciences, is creating a search engine that researchers can use to ask medical questions and receive meaningful answers, reported Fast Company Andy Conrad, CEO of...
View ArticleThree hospitals fall prey to cyber attacks
The IT and web-based systems of three hospitals in the US were hit by Locky malware and hackers asked for a ransom to get systems back online. Systems at Kentucky Methodist Hospital, Chino Valley...
View ArticleHow Raspberry Pi is making telehealth more affordable
Telehealth to be made more affordable through a new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) remote patient monitoring pilot created on a Raspberry Pi The HSCIC has created a telehealth...
View ArticleWestfield Health invests in Dragon’s Den 3rings device
Westfield Health has invested in 3rings, the healthcare start-up showcased on Dragon’s Den by Steve Purdham 3rings is designed to help families who have older relatives living alone according to...
View ArticleHealthClick enables data transfer from stand-alone medical devices
Medelinked has introduced HealthClick, an application that uses a smartphone camera to scan and capture medical data from un-connected devices or sheets of paper. The company said its HealthClick...
View ArticleAndrew Foster to present at the Hospital Management Summit
Andrew Foster, chief executive, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust will be presenting at the Hospital Management Summit taking place on 2-3 June at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel in London,...
View ArticleHIE funding helps digital health firms set-up in Scotland
Two new life science firms have begun operating in Elgin, at the Alexander Graham Bell Centre, after securing financial support from Highlands and Island Enterprise (HIE) AllsWell and Healthfit Digital...
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