How AI Helps Diagnose Rare Diseases
Rare diseases pose a significant challenge for health care professionals. These conditions — often complex and elusive — lead patients through a lengthy journey before…
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Gen Z Won’t Pick Up the Phone: How Healthcare Providers Need to Shift Their Communications
A striking number of Gen Z don’t want to talk to their doctors on the phone, confirms Smart Communication’s recent Benchmark Report, with over half…
Airwave Healthcare expands team with Francesca McPhail
Patient stimulus technology provider Airwave Healthcare has appointed Francesca McPhail, who will help health and care providers achieve more from their media and entertainment systems…
Safeguarding Healthcare Facilities: Managing the Fire Risks of Lithium-ion Batteries
As the healthcare industry increasingly relies on technology, the use of lithium-ion batteries has become widespread across medical devices and everyday tools. While these lithium-ion…
Healthcare Excellence Through Technology: The Lunar Society for Digital Health
Dr Vin Diwaker, the national director of transformation, NHS England, told the exhibitors and visitors to this year’s Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT 2024) show…
If we want to Improve Access to Primary Care, we Need to Free-up GP Time
The NHS has a four-point plan to recover access to primary care, and a key focus is on increasing capacity. Tim Foster, UK director of…
77% of Health Leaders Lack Investment in Tech or Medical Equipment
Philips Future Health report reveals that nearly all healthcare leaders are facing economic gaps or financial challenges with 77% facing delayed, limited, or no investment…
Ensuring Reliability and Value in EPR Systems
Richard Baylor, COO at St. Vincent’s Consulting and former Cerner (now Oracle) executive, and Paul Charnley, Luminary advisor and former NHS CIO of the Year…
How Innovative Encryption Technologies could be the Key to Securing Healthcare Data
Could Fully Homomorphic Encryption be the breakthrough solution the healthcare industry needs to protect sensitive data from escalating cyber threats? Andrei Stoian, ML Director at…
Routinely Collected Data Fuels a Route to Better Stroke Care and Research
Improvements in the stroke care pathway have been catalysed by nationwide routinely collected data, standardised through the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). However, Professor…