Patient Experience

Future Health Index 2024 global report: Healthcare leaders turn to AI to address critical gaps in patient care 

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, have announced the results of its Future Health Index 2024 report: Better care for more people. Launched at HLTH Europe, the ninth annual FHI global report shows that healthcare leaders are turning to...

The intersection of telemedicine decline and rising NEMT demand has implications for outpatient care and healthcare systems 

Telemedicine’s 15 minutes of fame appear to be fizzling, a trend that could compound the already staggering financial losses — a whopping US$150 billion annually — for the healthcare industry due to patient no-shows. One of the most common...

How can we utilise technology to enhance preventive healthcare and what incentives could drive behavioural changes among potential future patients? 

While at HLTH Europe, there was a notable focus on preventative healthcare, accompanied by tense remarks about the profitability of preventive technologies versus treatments for existing illnesses. Another aspect of this discussion highlighted the challenge...

i.AI and NHS England sign Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS 

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), an elite team of technical experts at the heart of government, and NHS England (NHSE) have signed a first-of-a-kind Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS.   The partnership,...

Medicines new wave: How biomedical engineering is transforming patient care 

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, biomedical engineering stands out as a revolutionary field that bridges the gap between medicine and engineering. Natasha Edwards, Senior Marketing and Communications Strategist at OptimallyMe, explores how...

Data from Brainomix’s collaboration with AstraZeneca shows its AI-powered e-Lung better identifies lung fibrosis patients at risk of decline 

Brainomix, the AI-powered MedTech company, has announced the publication of a new study in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM), resulting from a research collaboration AstraZeneca, a...

Johnson & Johnson highlights commitment to transform treatment of retinal diseases at ARVO 2024 

Johnson & Johnson spotlighted its EYE-RD Global Registry at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2024 Annual Meeting held in Seattle in May.   The first-of-its-kind observational, non-interventional global IRD...

Artera Harmony expands analytics capabilities with two new dashboards to improve patient engagement 

Artera, the SaaS digital health leader in patient communications, has announced the availability of two new analytics dashboards delivering healthcare providers visibility and performance metrics for:   Both dashboards, available with Artera...

Handing out vapes in A&E helps smokers quit 

Giving out free e-cigarette starter packs to smokers in hospital A&E departments helps more people quit, NIHR-funded research finds.  Academics from the University of East Anglia conducted a trial in six UK emergency departments between January and...

Canon Medical’s ‘Made For Life’ philosophy: Innovating healthcare technology for lifelong impact 

In an exclusive interview, Mark Hitchman, Canon Medical Systems UK’s Managing Director, discusses the ‘Made For Life’ philosophy, emphasising partnerships, innovation and patient-centric care in shaping the future of healthcare...

Empowering patients and providers: What healthcare can learn from FinTech’s success

In this article by Jon Payne, Director of Sales Engineering and Education at InterSystems, we contrast and compare two sectors and how they can learn from one another through empowering users and patients through data.  Across the world, the healthcare...

New AI tool may offer insights into patients’ future health 

Researchers have developed and tested a new AI tool called Foresight which recognises complex patterns in health data to gain insights and offer predictions of the future health of patients.  Belonging to the same family of AI models as ChatGPT,...