By Thomas Cooke, clinical services manager at Liva Healthcare The NHS plans to treat up to 2.5 million people with personalised care by 2024. Personalised care can mean many things, from medication targeted at a person’s own genome, to care plans based on a patient’s personal needs and preferences. The […]
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HTN Voice: Mental health apps must win trust in how they use data if they are to achieve potential
By Evelina Georgieva, co-founder of Pryv As the long-feared second wave of Covid-19 begins to materialise across parts of Europe we are also seeing the continued growth of a second major concern; a global mental health crisis. Studies have found a huge rise in the number of people experiencing stress, […]
Andrew Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital: The next Cyber Attack – Will it or won’t it hurt?
By Andrew Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital The cyber threat to health and care has never been more prevalent it seems than now. The pandemic has seen an increase in ripples of spam and phishing attempts, but in more recent years the real threat to our systems which support services […]
HTN Voice: Getting digital inclusion onto the health and care agenda
The rapid deployment of healthcare technology has been one of the most commented features of the NHS’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet a significant minority of patients cannot benefit from new, digital services; and risk being overlooked in the rush to go ‘digital first’ in a post-Covid reset. So […]
HTN Voice: Preparing for future public health crises – could tech play a bigger role?
As the health tech industry assesses the emerging lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, Highland Marketing and TechUK organised a webinar to explore the impact of technology on healthcare, the challenges and barriers to change, and the likely sustainability of actions taken during the crisis. As the novel coronavirus arrived in […]
HTN Voice: Data and AI must play a frontline role in tackling the ongoing COVID-19 problem
By Orlando Agrippa, CEO of Draper & Dash Predictive Healthcare Analytics There is a dawning realisation across the UK that the COVID-19 pandemic is not just going to be a one-off event. Unlike Asia and the Middle East, an outbreak of this scale is not something we have seen so close […]
HTN Voice: How do we secure a ‘second wave of innovation’ post-Covid-19?
Health tech marketing and communications agency, Highland Marketing, and its advisory board met in June to discuss some of the challenges that face oversees companies, start-ups and scale-ups in accessing the health tech market; and how they might be overcome so they can play their part in helping the NHS to […]
Opinion: Medical Examiners, Surveillance, learning from deaths, COVID and recovery: Clinical Outcome Review
By Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash. At the time of writing this article, 2020 moves further into a period we have not seen the likes of in living human history. With over 50,542 fatalities as a result of COVID-19 since the onset of the outbreak, this surge in mortality […]
Opinion: COVID-19 recovery planning, system-level modelling of the demand vs. capacity divide
By Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash. In a matter of weeks, we have catapulted into a typhoon of planning, reconfiguring capacity, building field hospitals, and scrambling for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as we continue to fight one of the deadliest viruses of our time. Panting, as teams keel over from the first wave, they immediately gather themselves and push on to the […]
HTN Voice: Covid-19 and health tech: building on the NHS pivot to digital
Highland Marketing’s advisory board met to discuss the health tech response to the coronavirus outbreak. In many areas, this has been hugely impressive: but there are gaps, and there will need to be serious discussions about data architecture, security, and funding when the crisis is over. The novel coronavirus has […]
