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,
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
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
By 2024, all citizens in Northern Ireland will have a single ‘digital care record’ that will do away with the outdated patchwork of digital and paper systems used currently.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
An advocacy group has issued a “call to arms” to make sure patients are closely consulted in the development of digital health technologies. The steering committee of the European Patient Innovation Summit (EPIS). A Novartis-backed group set up in 2016 as a platform for patient advocates to discuss digital health. Stated that the call aims
A start-up has launched a project to screen 15,000 people aged between 45 and 80 using smartphone technology. Set to commence in the town of Breda in the Netherlands, the project will be focusing on chronic kidney disease (CKD). The new study is being instigated by Israeli start-up Healthy.io, a few weeks after it raised
The Topol Review of the training needs of the future NHS workforce has published its recommendations that include an increase in the number of clinicians trained to use digital, AI and robotics technologies. Commissioned by the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, the Topol Review is led by California-based scientist Dr Eric Topol, an expert in
While cancer patients go to their doctors first for information, they also get information from pharma and healthcare companies. A new look at cancer survivors’ media habits by Nielsen shows that where they get other data and to what degree they value it depends on when they were diagnosed. For instance, the report found that
An NHS project using social media to improve health by boosting digital inclusion has led to a 13% increase in first time attendances for breast screenings in Stoke-on-Trent over four years. The local initiative saw information about screening posted on Facebook community groups, which empowered and enabled women to make appointments by reducing their anxiety
