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Rotenburg Hospital becomes the latest to adopt Versius 

CMR Surgical, a global surgical robotics business, announced that Kreiskrankenhaus Rotenburg, Germany has become the latest hospital in Germany to adopt the next-generation surgical robotic system, Versius.  Introducing robotic surgery for the first...

How the onboarding of technology into UK’s pharmacies will support the wider healthcare ecosystem  

Santosh Sahu, CEO and Founder of Charac, The Pharmacy App, dives into the importance of technology in supporting UK pharmacies.  Today, the UK’s NHS system is overburdened and under-resourced. Across all divisions, there are issues of overwhelm...

2024 healthcare predictions  

As we kick off 2024, Wayne Miller, Director, EMEA Healthcare Practice, Zebra Technologies, tells us the biggest healthcare predictions for the year ahead.  1. The progression of the retail-isation of healthcare    When it comes to the...

Zimmer Biomet launches innovative care management system in the Middle East

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, a global medical technology leader, has announced that its mymobility care management system will become available in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia this year. The big step forward has been made public at the Arab Health...

Injury experts warn Dragons’ Den viewers to seek ‘professional advice’ before impulse buying on-screen healthcare products 

Following a contestant’s historical result on January 18th, receiving offers from six dragons, Action for ME addressed an open letter to the chairs of two House of Commons select committees regarding the contestant’s pitch. The BBC temporarily...

Searches for ‘enlarged prostate’ explode by 266% after King Charles’ prostate awareness announcement

Buckingham Palace announced in January, that 75-year-old King Charles requires treatment for an enlarged prostate. The King’s upcoming ‘corrective procedure’ has caused a surge in Google searches for prostate checks worldwide.  ...

NHS staff call for ‘long overdue’ investment in HealthTech 

According to new research from BT, NHS staff have joined a chorus of voices calling for the rapid rollout of digital technology to tackle growing wait times for diagnosis and treatment, as concerns mount around existing targets to reduce hospital waiting...

What technology will make the PM’s ‘Smoke-free’ generation possible and what technology may prevent the objective? 

In October 2023, UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced the new legislation to create a smoke-free generation.  The legislation will make it an offence to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009. In effect, the law will stop...

90% of NHS trusts now have electronic patient records 

The NHS has met the government’s target for 90% of trusts adopting electronic patient records in hospitals ahead of schedule.  This goal achieves the target set by the UK government to reach this amount by December 2023 in the Plan for digital...

Warner Music Group announces partnership with MedTech company to trial ‘musical medicine’  

Warner Music Group, (WMG) the global music entertainment company, has announced a partnership with MediMusic, the British health tech start-up, to help trial ‘music as medicine’ to relieve pain, anxiety and stress.   Through the...

Totalmobile app transforms safety and daily life for homecare workers and receivers across Edinburgh 

The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP), in partnership with CGI, have completed the implementation of a new scheduling system, including the Totalmobile social care app to frontline Homecare and Reablement staff across Edinburgh which will...

Essence SmartCare completes shipment of 140k remote care devices to the community of Madrid 

Essence SmartCare, a global leader in IoT-based remote care solutions headquartered in Israel, successfully delivered 140,000 Care@Home senior monitoring devices to fulfil its major tender win with the Community of Madrid, a governmental region in Spain...