10+ hour, 2+ min ago   (555+ words) Healthcare technology company Streamwave has launched its Patient Check-in platform at Northwick Park Hospital’s Emergency Department, following an initial deployment at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. The cloud-based software allows emergency department patients to initiate their care registration and triage…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (847+ words) Healthcare AI is learning to do more than record what a patient says or measure what their body does. Systems can analyse voice, gaze, movement, response time and physiological signals, then infer distress, fatigue, pain, confusion, declining attention or cognitive…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (840+ words) Addressing these twin challenges requires a shift in how translational science is funded, regulated and trialled. As chief executive officer of LifeArc, Sam Barrell is directing capital into creating end-to-end clinical trial frameworks, joining up paediatric datasets, and pioneering adaptive…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (184+ words) The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a position paper clarifying how microbiome-based medicines can be made available for patients in the UK. Microbiome-based medicinal products are medicines that work through modulating, restoring or replacing the human…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (426+ words) A clinical trial platform co-led by a researcher at the University of Sheffield could accelerate the search for effective motor neuron disease (MND) treatments by identifying ineffective candidate drugs in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. Researchers…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (747+ words) Healthcare workers have never had access to more technology. Prescribing platforms, scheduling tools, patient records and internal messaging are all designed to make everyday tasks easier. But when healthcare employees spend more time switching between systems than using them, it…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (901+ words) The sector has the clinical capacity to respond. But growth on that scale puts pressure on everything around the consultation: finding the right clinician, booking an appointment, sharing records, receiving prescriptions and settling invoices without unnecessary friction. Each one of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (207+ words) Doctors are increasingly using technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to reduce their administrative burdens, improve efficiency and create more time for their patients, according to a report published by the General Medical Council (GMC). Pressures remain, however. More than four…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (546+ words) AI adoption is moving at very different speeds across sectors. Technology and financial services are leading, the professional services arena is advancing rapidly, and manufacturers are increasingly deploying AI in response to labour and skills shortages. Healthcare, however, risks falling…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (764+ words) Here is a number I keep coming back to: 31 days. That is the median time it took the FDA to clear an update to an AI tool that helps spot polyps during a colonoscopy. Not to approve it from scratch....