Isle of Wight NHS Trust Bids Farewell to Legacy Pagers
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust, which provides hospital, community, mental health and ambulance services to over 140,000 island residents, has deployed CommonTime’s smartphone based…
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Withings Returns With Steel HR Sport Following Its Reacquisition From Nokia
After reacquiring itself from Nokia earlier this year, Withings is back with a new look, a strengthened focus on connected health and the first new…
Mobile-enabled InterSystems TrakCare Supports Better Healthcare Decision Making
InterSystems TrakCare® unified healthcare information system has added a mobile, touchscreen-enabled user interface to optimise the user experience and other enhancements that support better healthcare…
World’s Largest Social Cancer Network Surpasses 100,000 Patients and Caregivers
Belong.Life, the social network for cancer patients and care givers, has surpassed 100,000 active cancer patient and caregiver users, who depend on the platform to…
Bringing the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence to Hearing Impaired
The first data gathered from the ground-breaking WIDEX EVOKE™ hearing aid, which achieves a new level of Artificial Intelligence through machine learning, is bringing new…
Disruptive Technology in Dentistry – Rethinking the Model
By Dr Aalok Y Shukla New technologies mean new paradigms are possible. This raises questions: Can a health specialty evolve beyond its previous business model?…
NHS Trusts not Discouraging WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other Consumer Apps
The majority of England’s acute trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools, whilst many hospitals provide no alternative, research finds. A substantial…
Digitalising Drug Information Results in Time Savings for NHS Clinicians
A year on from its launch, a medical app is helping to reduce the time it takes for clinicians to prescribe drugs to patients. The…
World’s First Hand-held Infrared Devices for COPD & Other Conditions
A hand-held device that would give early warning of ‘acute events’, and so avoid the hospitalisation of thousands of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
New AI Treatment for Low Back Pain Could Save the UK Billions Each Year
Low back pain (LBP) is an increasingly widespread and expensive condition worldwide, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified back pain as being the…