Looking ahead for Gamma Knife
Offering precision targeted radiation treatment, healthcare professionals are often surprised to learn that the technology behind Gamma Knife treatment is not a new concept, having…
Digital Health
Are Living Labs the Answer to Powering Open Innovation in Integrated Care Systems?
Victoria Betton, author of Towards a Digital Health Ecology: NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass, discusses whether Living Labs are the answer to…
Virtual Wards: Tech matters, but so do people
Emily Wells is the first Chief Nursing Information Officer to be appointed by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and was the Digital…
Digital Referrals Reduce Waiting Times in North East London
Marie Loizides, associate director of performance analytics at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, explains how switching to digital referrals has reduced waiting…
Withings Announces U-Scan – The World’s First Hands-free Connected Home Urine Lab
Consumer digital health leader Withings has this week launched one of the company’s most technologically advanced devices to date, U-Scan is a miniaturized health lab…
What is the Role of Infographics in Healthcare?
Infographics are one of the most powerful ways to communicate complex data, and an important tool in teaching, giving inspiration, presenting information, and business. They…
New Referral Methods for Social Prescribing Programmes can Transform the Delivery of Care for People with Long-term Conditions
Gill Bruce, Development Manager of Lorn & Oban Healthy Options Ltd, a Scottish social prescribing and self management project, has seen first-hand how social prescribing…
The Three Challenges Facing the NHS
Equity, access and digital. Overcome these challenges and we will have an NHS that is fit for purpose according to Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, chair…
MedTech Trends for 2023
The COVID-19 healthcare crisis has been felt more acutely in healthcare than perhaps any other industry. The pressure to address the immediate threat to people’s…
Point of Care Testing must be Adopted as Standard if the NHS is to Deliver ‘Net Zero’
Climate change continued to climb the health agenda in 2022, with a renewed “Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service” report and the Health and…