Optimising Healthcare Delivery with a Nurse-first Triage Model
As hospitals across the United States faced a surge in flu, RSV and COVID-19 cases, the “tripledemic” pushed capacity to the brink. As the threat…
Health Technology
Tech must go with the Flow to Cope with the Shifting Sands of the NHS
The leadership, funding and even the standards of healthcare technology are built on shifting sands. Success will only come when technologists go with the flow,…
Fighting Physician Burnout through Voice-Enabled Technology
When he was a product leader at Google and Motorola, Punit Singh Soni’s teams tackled numerous issues in the mobile sector and even built the…
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…
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…
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…
In 2023, can Public Health Really be Consumer Friendly?
I’m a grown man who’s afraid of needles. Yes, that’s an inconvenient fear in the time of vaccines and booster shots. This irrational dread plagued…
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…
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…
Learning Where HealthTech Works, and Where it Doesn’t
BT’s Vanguard Innovation Programme can help to share learnings on appropriate uses of technology in healthcare and could help prevent clinicians discovering the hard way…