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News on the medical technology breakthroughs transforming our health, from wearables and medical devices to biotechnology and medtech startups. Verdict brings you the latest medical technology news and breakthroughs, from game-changing medical tech and robotics to the software and AI-driven medical innovations shaping the disruption of healthcare. Technology has never played a greater role in your health.
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7 Jul
Nucleai raises $6.5m to advance predictive oncology platform
Computational biology startup Nucleai has raised $6.5m in funding to advance its artificial intelligence (AI) platform, which analyses large datasets of tissue images to make predictions about how a patient will react to certain cancer treatments.
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24 Jun
Self-driving hospital beds and social distancing sensors: Covid-19 innovation
Digital Concepts Engineering (DCE) has used its experience in the military, agricultural and nuclear industries to repurpose its tech with the aim of responding to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and the result is self-driving hospital beds designed to safeguard medical staff, and social distancing sensors for unmanned vehicles.
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15 Jun
Microsoft NHS deal predicted to save hundreds of millions of pounds
The NHS could save hundreds of millions of pounds thanks to a deal between NHSX, NHS Digital and Microsoft, which enables members of staff to access Microsoft 365 digital tools.
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21 May
Coronavirus case studies: How Masks For Docs is getting PPE where it’s needed
Since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, a continual challenge has been getting personal protective equipment (PPE) into the hands of frontline medical workers who need it.
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11 May
Coronavirus digital health passport to be supplied to 15 countries
Manchester-based cybersecurity firm VST Enterprises has signed a deal with digital health company Circle Pass Enterprises (CPE) to create a digital health passport designed to “manage a safe return to work, life, and safe travel” after the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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28 Apr
Coronavirus: AI used to identify Covid-19 in lung x-rays
Researchers at Brunel University London have used artificial intelligence (AI) to correctly identify coronavirus on patients’ lungs.
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27 Apr
Coronavirus to drive adoption of medical robots in India: Report
The global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic is expected to drive the adoption of medical robots in India, according to analytics firm GlobalData.
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22 Apr
Coronavirus case studies: How 8×8 is helping deliver patient care via the cloud
The coronavirus pandemic is putting immense strain on healthcare, and not just to treat patients with Covid-19.
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20 Apr
NHS trials AI system to predict coronavirus ventilator demand
The NHS is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help predict upcoming demand for intensive care beds and ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic across England.
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9 Apr
Facebook gifts 2,000 Portals to NHS to tackle pandemic loneliness
Facebook is providing up to 2,050 of its Portal video-calling devices to NHS hospitals and care homes in the UK to tackle the isolation felt by residents and patients during the coronavirus pandemic.
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8 Apr
Vodafone app turns your phone into a coronavirus-fighting supercomputer
Want to do your bit to help fight the coronavirus pandemic?
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7 Apr
Coronavirus case studies: How Whitgift School is manufacturing hospital visors
The shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line medical workers continues to be one of the biggest issues in the ongoing coronavirus crisis, prompting solutions to come from unusual places, including Whitgift School.
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1 Apr
NHS turns to big data, AI and the cloud to stem coronavirus
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has unveiled a government-initiated plan to harness the power of big data, AI and cloud computing to manage and help contain the health crisis created by Covid-19.
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27 Mar
Rwanda provides fertile ground for reverse innovation in healthcare
This week Rwanda became the first African country to impose a full lockdown against Covid-19, leading the continent before Kenya and DRC followed suit.
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27 Mar
Coronavirus home test delivery gives Amazon key move towards UK healthcare dominance
Within the next few weeks, UK consumers will be able to log onto either Amazon or Boots’s website and order a home test for delivery that will tell them if they have had the coronavirus.
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26 Mar
UK Covid-19 symptoms mapped using health app user data
Health and wellbeing app Evergreen Life has mapped the prevalence of Covid-19 symptoms across the UK using app user data.
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25 Mar
How South Korea leads the way in the battle against coronavirus
South Korea was one of the earliest countries to experience a major outbreak of COVID-19.
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23 Mar
IBM and the White House to use supercomputers against coronavirus
IBM has announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, an effort to use advanced computing in the fight against coronavirus.
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19 Feb
The science of art: How cancer cells inspired researcher’s emotive paintings
Science and art are often treated as completely unrelated disciplines, but there are times when they collide.
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12 Feb
Alzheimer’s charity harnesses wearable devices for dementia research
Alzheimer’s Research UK has announced a new project harnessing wearables to “revolutionise the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases” such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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4 Feb
Coin-sized smart insulin patch delivers payload via microneedles
Researchers have developed a coin-sized smart insulin patch that could one day help those with diabetes more easily manage and monitor blood sugar levels.
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31 Jan
Stopping the coronavirus at the border – a challenge for data management
Tragic news continues to develop regarding the novel coronavirus outbreak, with a proliferation of new cases taking the number of people infected well into the thousands.
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30 Jan
Researchers develop AI tool for lung cancer diagnosis
Around 47,200 people in the UK get diagnosed with lung cancer every year, making it one of the most common types of cancer.
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23 Jan
Could artificial intelligence help tackle the coronavirus outbreak?
The outbreak of novel coronavirus in China is growing in severity with over 500 confirmed cases across six countries.
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9 Jan
“We have a volume of data that we’ve never experienced”: How big data is being utilised in public health
Over the past few years, the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine has generated much excitement in both the public and private sector.
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17 Dec
Two thirds of NHS trusts do not have access to data needed for AI deployments
With significant potential in diagnostics, drug development and patient care, artificial intelligence (AI) has huge potential in healthcare, and is an area that the UK National Health Service (NHS) has made significant progress in over the past few years.
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2 Dec
Hospital AI network to boost UK healthcare services, research
A partnership between King’s Collect London (KCL), chipmaker NVIDIA and artificial intelligence (AI) developer Owkin will see the launch of a vast AI network across hospital sites in the UK.
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29 Nov
Pioneering home prostate cancer test has ‘revolutionary’ potential
A home prostate cancer test that is considerably more comfortable and less stressful than current methods has been found to be more effective than a standard diagnostic test.
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27 Nov
AI harnessed for traumatic brain injury prognosis
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms are being developed by researchers to assist with the monitoring and prognosis of patients with severe traumatic brain injury.
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26 Nov
Scientists target gene therapy to ‘switch off’ heart attack-causing genes
The future treatment of heart attacks could see doctors deploying gene therapy treatments that deactivate key genes, thanks to research underway at the University of Sheffield.