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NHS Innovation Accelerator drives technological development
The award-winning NHS Innovation Accelerator is providing support for promising innovators to enable them to scale up across the English healthcare system.
Since its launch...
3D printing technology boosts hospital efficiency and eases pressures
Researchers investigating the benefits of 3D printing technology found it can deliver significant improvements to the running of hospitals.
A new study has found that...
Health Europa Quarterly Issue 17
Welcome to the 17th issue of Health Europa Quarterly, which focuses on the fast-growing worlds of infection prevention and control and digital health technology;...
Connecting healthcare with The Electronic Health Record Association
The Electronic Health Record Association explains the benefits of digital healthcare for both patients and healthcare providers.
Considering how accustomed we are to sharing, storing,...
Report warns of urgent need for AI and digital systems in EU healthcare
A new EIT Health report has outlined the urgent need for a post-pandemic technological revolution, harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital applications, to prevent...
Grasp: mental health management with a diary without words
Grasp’s innovative mental health self-management device helps patients understand their symptoms and could provide a sustainable solution to overwhelmed healthcare providers.
Grasp AS is a...
Mainstreaming human rights in European policies
AGE Platform Europe Research Project Manager Ilenia Gheno discusses the role of digital technology in supporting elderly care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic...
Medical cannabis care in the era of personalised medicine
In the post-COVID-19 era, now more than ever, patients are critical of the healthcare they receive. Yaron Gissin, Chief Innovation Officer of the Sade...
MoU facilitates health innovation and medical societies collaboration
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is aiming to facilitate the closer collaboration of the health innovation community and medical societies in Europe.
EIT Health...
Online resource helps deliver COVID-19 vaccines to housebound patients
Researchers have developed an online resource – the VaxiMap – to help GP surgeries across the UK optimise the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to...
Lack of digital social care means people and practitioners are missing out
Not enough local authorities or care providers are using available technology within social care to keep people safe, happy, and healthy at home, according...
Video-based evidence on factors influencing developmental disorders
Which tools are useful to perform human behaviour observations when studying developmental disorders?
Developmental disorders have a huge impact on someone’s life: children with ADHD...
Technology-enabled care is here to stay
Marc Schmid, Redmoor Health CEO, discusses the potential of technology-enabled care to help NHS clinicians achieve the government’s goal of digital transformation across the...
Improving UK baby and child development with digitised health records
New, digitised child health records are to be introduced following the publication of a UK government review which aims to help babies and children...
Towards the Digital Premium in residential care
Wendy Kendall of Legrand Assisted Living and Healthcare speaks with HEQ about the impact of the digital transition on caregivers and patients.
Legrand Assisted Living...
Technological and digital disruption in the healthcare sector
HEQ speaks to Koa Health CEO Oliver Harrison about technological and digital disruption in the healthcare sector.
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, the attendant...
Empowering the patient-doctor relationship with digital technology
TIYGA Health Managing Director Katrina Delargy examines the role of digital technology in post-2020 healthcare.
2020 was a year in which most of us found...
Digital self-monitoring can help with significant weight loss
A new review has shown that self-monitoring using digital health tools is associated with significant weight loss.
The systematic review of multiple randomised controlled studies...
NHSX unveils new digital health technologies assessment
NHSX has unveiled a simpler and faster assessment process for digital health technologies used in the NHS and social care.
The new Digital Technology Assessment...
£1m grant to improve cancer self-management and data collection
A grant of £1m has been awarded to Vinehealth to deliver an innovative cancer companion app to four NHS trusts within a randomised controlled...