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Time for an NHS cybersecurity health check

Dan Lyon, principal consultant, Cigital, discusses the danger hackers pose to healthcare and how the digital security of the NHS needs regular ‘Health Checks’ It’s no surprise that hospitals and...

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NHS telehealth and telecare framework gets cloud-based healthcare system

NHS professionals can now procure CliniTouch Vie, a cloud-based healthcare system that helps patients self-manage health conditions, as it has been added to the Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation...

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Medelinked health platform now connects with Apple, Samsung, Fitbit and...

Medelinked, the online health platform, now offers sleep monitoring and oxygen saturation measurements that synchronise with Apple Health, Samsung S Health, FitBit and Withings. In addition, the...

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NHS Tayside’s Sec3ure visitor tracking service enhances patient safety

NHS Tayside has recently implemented the IntelliCentrics Sec3ure visitor policy compliance and enforcement service. IntelliCentrics said its Sec3ure enhances the management of commercial visitors...

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Alliance calls for digital ecosystem to share health data

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has called for a shared ecosystem where health and clinical data can be accessed. In today’s Science, the GA4GH argues that a common framework of...

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Apple watchOS 3 update encourages wheelchair users’ fitness

Apple has introduced the new Apple watchOS 3 with health features to help with stress, health behavior and the fitness of wheelchair-users as well as those who are able-bodied. Apple said the new...

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Internet of Things healthcare market to reach £95.85bn

The world Internet of Things (IoT) healthcare market is expected to reach £95.85bn ($136.8bn) by 2021, according to a report published by Allied Market Research. According to the new report titled,...

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New digital system helps deliver medication in care homes

Omnicell, a provider of medication adherence packaging and automated healthcare solutions has launched a new system, Omnicell eMAR, to improve medication management in care homes. Omnicell eMAR...

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Why the NHS needs to address the threat of Ransomware

Peter Godden, VP EMEA at Zerto Peter Godden, VP EMEA at Zerto discusses the rising threat of ransomware in the healthcare industry, its potentially detrimental affect and what the NHS can do to...

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Now Healthcare completes first UK-Hong Kong mHealth call

Now Healthcare Group has completed the first remote video consultation that connected a patient in Hong Kong to a GP based in the UK through the Now GP mobile app. The Hong Kong-based patient was...

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Cloudy with a Chance of Pain: the app that connects health to the weather

University of Manchester (UoM) researchers have completed a study that uses an app, Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, to record how thousands of people with chronic pain react to the weather and is seeking...

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Health tech improves chronically ill patients’ lives

ProACT is a digital health technology project that enables older people with multiple chronic diseases to self-manage their conditions and to be cared for in their own homes. The new ProACT project...

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Artificial intelligence triages patients faster than healthcare professionals

The world’s first artificial intelligent (AI) triage platform outperformed a senior nurse and a junior doctor in live challenge. Digital health innovator Babylon has used its app’s newest AI feature,...

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Hospital staff increase productivity with clinical smartphone

Honeywell Sensing and Productivity Solutions (Honeywell), a Fortune 100 technology and manufacturing company, has launched a new clinical mobile device that connects hospital staff to the digital...

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Digital health steals the spotlight at Medica

Medica 2016 will be offering over 5,000 companies the chance to exhibit innovative and tailored solutions for outpatient and clinical care on 14-17 November at Messe Düsseldorf. The digitisation of...

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Nokia launches Withing’s new connected scale with heart health assessment

Withings, the connected health device company that was recently acquired by Nokia Technologies has announced the global launch of the Withings Body Cardio, a new connected scale. Body Cardio helps...

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Healthcare professionals and patients clash over 21st century visions for NHS

UK patients want better access to healthcare when needed but don’t see a role in helping to ease the burden on the NHS by living healthily, according to an international report published today by Royal...

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NHS trusts new authentication service against data breaches

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust (Bolton FT), an integrated care organisation in Greater Manchester, has rolled out Duo Security’s two-­factor authentication (2FA) solution to 1,000 of its employees Bolton...

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Vodafone makes strides in exoskeleton connectivity

Vodafone will be connecting the world’s first and only exoskeleton that is FDA cleared for use by both stroke patients and spinal cord injuries. Ekso GT is the FDA approved exoskeleton from Ekso...

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Bioepic highlighted for tech that tracks benefits of supplements

Bioepic, the first company that combined food and drink supplements with smartphone technology, has been highlighted as one of the UK’s most pioneering new businesses by Startups.co.uk Bioepic said it...

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