InterSystems has signed an agreement with Pure Health to deploy the TrakCare Lab Enterprise system to support the UAE’s testing initiatives for COVID-19. GCC’s largest lab operator Pure Health is to deploy technology from InterSystems to support the largest laboratory network in the Gulf region with 115 labs and employing a […]
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Former Cambridge CEO to utilise COVID impact assessment tool across Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) is to adopt a COVID-19 impact assessment tool from Draper & Dash to better understand its capacity needs. The tool helps healthcare providers plan resources and response strategies using local data such as pathology, radiology and live emergency department data and also pulls in […]
USA developers launch USA Covid Near You tracking tool
US developers at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital have launched a USA COVID-19 tracking tool. The tool created by epidemiologists and software developers at Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital and a group of volunteers from across the technology industry is called Covid Near You. It uses crowdsourced data to visualise maps to […]
AI content analysis on COVID-19 archive literature
A team of US health tech specialists this week announced a new programme to use artificial intelligence to scan 24,000 papers on COVID-19 to find patterns, signs and insights about the virus. The aim is to help to find answers to questions raised by the World Health Organisation about the pandemic. […]
Nuance ambient clinical room tech on general release
Nuance and Microsoft have announced their ambient clinical intelligence solution is now available on general release. The solution securely captures and contextualises patient-heathcare professional conversations to update an electronic medical record. Optimised microphones in a consultation room are used to capture conversation and automatically document the conversation into a health […]
HIMSS cancels 2020 health tech exhibition due to the Coronavirus
On Thursday 5th March 2020, a leading US healthcare conference, HIMSS announced the cancellation of its 2020 health tech exhibition due to the Coronavirus. Earlier in the week Amazon, Intel, Cisco and Salesforce all backed out of the health-tech conference HIMSS. It’s the first time in 58 years the company said […]
Apple and Johnson & Johnson team up on new stroke study
Johnson & Johnson and Apple have joined to launch a new study called Heartland to explore the potential of the Apple Watch to be used to reduce the risk of stroke. The partnership opened enrolement in the Heartline™ Study this week. The study aims to assess whether the Heartline™ Study app […]
Paris start-up launches smart monitoring t-shirt
Chronolife, a Paris-based company has launched a new smart t-shirt that monitors six key physiological parameters to enable prevention and monitoring. The company has also this week closed a new round of fund raising to help in its commercial phase. The platform uses wearable electronics to integrate 10 biometric scanners […]
Amazon launches Transcribe Medical to its US audience
Amazon last week unveiled Transcribe Medical to its US audience, a speech recognition tool to make clinical documentation more efficient. The company said the tool will make it easier for developers to integrate medical transcriptions into applications. In the company announcement Amazon said “It can automatically and accurately transcribe physicians’ […]
Lumeon partners with Medtronic to support pathway management across Europe
Lumeon, the provider of care pathway solutions has partnered with Medtronic a provider of integrated healthcare solutions across Europe. The partnership will provide the technology to support Medtronic’s customer base in their transition to value-based care models. Medtronic will utilise Lumeon’s care pathway management platform to operationalise care pathways for […]
