Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
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Hephaï files patent that improves inhaler use
Earlier this month, Paris-based Hephaï filed a patent application covering the software technology used in its digital educational tool, which was designed to optimise inhaler use. The patent – the first filed by Hephaï – aims to protect its digital platform, designed to assist patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in gaining […]
AmalgamRx secures CE Mark for its insulin titration algorithm
Digital therapeutics company AmalgamRx recently announced that it has received EU CE Mark approval for its insulin titration algorithm, called iSage Rx, and its white-label variants, and concluded a commercialisation agreement with Novo Nordisk. The green light for operation in the EU market comes more than four years after FDA approval in the U.S. for […]
Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2021 Humanitas ranked first Italian hospital
Out of 250 hospitals from 26 different countries, assessed according to the level of digital integration, development of remote services and use of Artificial Intelligence, Humanitas ranks first among Italians. An ongoing trend accelerated by the pandemic, and which will increasingly represent the future of healthcare. IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas was ranked 1st among Italian […]
HealthTech Festival 2021
CELEBRATING EUROPE’S HEALTHCARE STARS AND STARTUPS An interactive one-day digital event that brings together: industry’s disruptors decision makers and brightest minds as speakers From the MEDICAL, LIFE SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY sectors. For discovering how blended technology and innovation will SHAPE THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE. Join us on 15 June 2021 VIRTUAL from anywhere in the world! Link […]
Swedish group Doktor24 raises €40 million for European expansion and platform development
Doktor24 Group, consisting of digital health company Platform24 and care provider Doktor24, has announced that it has raised around €40m in a latest funding round that will allow it to expand in Europe and further develop its solution. Founded in 2016, the Stockholm-based group promised to create accessible and sustainable care with a focus on […]
Europe’s first digital health account, hi.health, is revolutionising insurance and solving the cash flow challenge of private insurance
Universal healthcare is the norm in European countries, but it is not always comprehensive, which is why 26.8 million people in Germany alone have some kind of supplementary insurance, from hospital stays to dental work. While statutory health insurance programmes provide a direct route between government agencies and health care providers regarding costs, private insurance […]
Google strikes deal with hospital chain to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms
The company will access and store anonymised data from patients’ medical records and Internet-connected medical devices. The collaboration will allow Google to access anonymous patient records from HCA, which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, to develop healthcare algorithms for the channel. The data will be used to develop […]
Epigenetic factors in cancer can now be identified by a machine learning system
Scientists have developed an innovative machine learning method that can accurately identify epigenetic factors in cancers. The collaborative study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian and the New York Genome Center (NYGC), published in Cancer discovery, has resulted in an innovative machine learning method that can accurately identify the genetic changes that cause […]
Eli Lilly partners with Roche, Dexcom, Glooko and others for diabetes-focused integrations
Earlier this month, Ely Lilly announced that diabetes management companies Dexcom, Glooko, myDiabby Healthcare and Roche will integrate the pharma giant’s Tempo pen and Tempo Smart Button into their respective software platforms and/or medical devices. These agreements will optimise the offering of the above-mentioned diabetes products and services, which will now be able to collect […]