Ada Health secures £63m investment to enhance assessment tech
The investment will enable Ada Health to work towards becoming the world’s leading personalised system for health, according to the company.
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Roundtable: How could Covid-driven digital change permanently improve health and social care in the UK?
A year after the first Covid cases were detected in the UK, a virtual roundtable event discussed the progress already made in terms of health IT.
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Digital physiotherapy tool could save Wales £1m per year
Initial results of a digital physiotherapy pilot suggest the tool could create more than £1m of annual savings if rolled out across the country.
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Portable ECG device to be further rolled out after successful pilot
The ECG device that detects heart irregularities is to be rolled out across the North East and North Cumbria after a successful pilot in an NHS trust.
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How Inhealthcare’s Oximetry @ Home service is expanding across southern England
Inhealthcare’s Oximetry @ Home service is now being deployed across southern England, allowing healthcare teams to monitor symptoms remotely and individuals to recover safely at home. This case study will detail how the service has been received.
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Skin condition imaging technology to be scaled across North West London
Technology from ISLA that allows patients to securely share pictures of skin conditions was trialled by several teams at Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals.
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Surge in digital health tools during Covid-19 ‘led to data divide’
The pandemic contributed to “worsening inequalities” with some people “left behind” in the surge in data-driven technologies, a new report has found.
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Use of digital services leads to drop in missed psychiatric appointments
Psychiatric counsellors seeing patients online during the pandemic recorded a drop in patients skipping appointments compared to face-to-face sessions.
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National call for innovations to tackle LGBT health inequalities
The Academic Health Science Networks and LGBT Foundation have joined forces to find new ways to address the health inequalities face by the community.
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Royal Free patient first to receive smartphone connected defibrillator
A 61-year-old year old man has become the first patient at the Royal Free London to receive a new type of defibrillator which can be connected to an app.
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