Business & Industry
Digital Health 2020
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Technology has transformed the lives of people living with diabetes
Over the decades, technology has rapidly evolved to become an integral part of our day to day lives. Work, social lives, entertainment etc – there is no area that technology hasn’t touched, and this includes our health and wellbeing. Technology has transformed the lives of people living with diabetes. 40 years ago, blood sugar testing...
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Digital health at the heart of accomplishing universal health coverage during COVID-19 and beyond
This same time last year, we had no idea of the unprecedented global health challenge waiting for us around the corner. When COVID-19 struck, it shook the foundations of our health, political, social, and economic systems. In doing so, it exposed a crucial vulnerability – that, without a resilient global health system, the social and...
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This is how to reset global healthcare: universal health coverage
COVID-19 has demonstrated that health is a public priority: each individual’s health is dependent on, and impacts, others around the world. The debate over access and affordability to health services is in the spotlight, especially as new diagnostics, therapeutics and eventually vaccines are developed. For the first time in recent history, governments and the private...
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The importance of data in fighting disease during the pandemic
Clinical data is acutely private and confidential, and patients rightly demand that it is handled with great care. Due to the complexity of diseases and variation in outcomes, each patient’s data is also extraordinarily valuable in gaining insights into the treatment of others. Medical research, as well as the work of optimising the planning and...
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How the power of data is shaping the future of care
Most care solutions are aimed at providing help to a patient once they are in need but, now, a new AI-led solution is helping professionals identify care support before an event might happen. MySense is a wellbeing analytics platform where thousands of recorded personalised data points are providing health organisations, carers and families with more...
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How artificial intelligence is helping conquer cancer
With its ability to spot patterns in huge datasets, artificial intelligence can unlock secrets in medical images – and help move the dial on cancer care. Immunotherapy may be the next step in cancer therapy but matching the right patient to the right treatment remains a challenge. Brandon Suh, CEO of South Korean med tech...
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Self-care and digital health: how they help NHS
From fitness trackers to symptom checkers, digital health is helping us all to take care of ourselves and shaping our future relationship with the NHS. Technology has the power to help us all take care of our own health, better manage chronic disease, and relieve pressure on the NHS. “Self-care, which encompasses the responsible use...
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Defining moment for digital health
The digital health sector in the UK has matured rapidly during the COVID-19 outbreak as in-person services have been reduced to minimise transmission. Until recently, the requirements for proving digital innovation worked were unclear and the culture for implementing digital innovations had not matured. The diversity and complexity of procurement procedures and processes across the...
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Healthcare is about to get personal
Following on from the rapid digitisation of healthcare in the past few months, are we ready for the next stage in personalised health? When it comes to gaming, it’s all about user experience. This got computer game development executive Kumar Jacob, thinking: “What would happen if we looked at healthcare in the same way?” The...
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How Britons have turned to health technology during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges and placed governments and citizens around the world under immense pressure to cope with the severe social, economic and health impacts resulting from the crisis. At techUK, our members have not been immune to these challenges, but their response has been marked by one word: collaboration. More than ever, COVID-19...