UK digital health company Sensyne Health has launched a new smartphone app to help people across the diabetes spectrum manage their condition. The app, called DBm-Health, assists users to monitor their blood glucose levels and send readings, notes and medication information to their healthcare practitioner to assess remotely. It is a follow-on to Sensyne’s GDm-Health product,
Report from the NHS Confederation has forecast that the peak in demand for mental healthcare in England has not yet manifested as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to have an impact. In the report, the NHS Confederation found that providers of mental healthcare responded effectively to protect patients and adapt their services at
A study from FutureBrand found that the perception of pharma and healthcare companies improved since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data collected during lockdown, the 2020 FutureBrand Index found that pharma’s reputation has improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry has been cast into the global spotlight over the past few months as
Healthware has launched a new online resource that aggregates information and analysis on how to respond to the huge changes COVID-19 has wrought across life sciences and healthcare. The open access newnormal.health aims to help guide executives from pharma, biotech and medical device companies in their response to the pandemic and its aftermath. Roberto Ascione, Healthware Group’s
The coronavirus pandemic has shrunk timelines for businesses’ adoption of digital technologies to days and weeks from years, with healthcare firms among those implementing the fastest changes, says a new survey. The poll of more than 2,500 companies around the world (carried out by digital communications specialist Twilio) found that 74% of healthcare companies had sped up
OPEN Health Medical Communications once again demonstrated their medical affairs expertise, after winning the Publicis Health Award for Medical Affairs Agency of the Year at the Communiqué Awards 2020. The category was open to any agency focused on delivering scientific programmes with medical affairs personnel within pharmaceutical companies, med tech and biotech aimed at the healthcare professional, payer
Pfizer has linked with Nordic group SidekickHealth to launch a digital therapeutics platform designed to empower patients to take control of their own health and boost wellbeing across Europe. According to the groups, scientific expertise and digital technologies have been combined to give patients a new tool to help them maintain healthy lifestyles and improve
Digital medical publisher, EPG Health, have launched a new website for healthcare professionals, Medthority, replacing their previous site, epgonline.org. To provide healthcare professionals (HCP) an enhanced user experience for accessing medical information online. Independent medical websites are HCPs’ preferred channel for accessing clinical information, with 96% rating them important (65% ‘very’ important). However, finding and
Specialist investor Startup Health has backed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that aims to fight social isolation in older people. Developed by digital health software developer Alejandro (Alex) Harb, the chatbot called Lena after the Texas Medical Center identified older people experiencing isolation and fragmented care as an unmet need. The medical centre asked Harb to launch
By 2024, all citizens in Northern Ireland will have a single ‘digital care record’ that will do away with the outdated patchwork of digital and paper systems used currently. That’s the objective of a new 10-year agreement between the Department of Health and US company Epic Systems that if successful could see Northern Ireland move
