Edinburgh care homes embrace AI technology to help assess pain and comfort levels for residents
Two family-run care homes in Edinburgh are using AI to help assess pain and comfort levels for residents – by monitoring tiny changes in their facial expressions. Elder Homes Ltd has…
Medical device company wins award for cutting-edge drugs inhalation tech
A specialist medical device company spun out of the University of Glasgow has won a prestigious physics award for ‘revolutionising’ drugs inhalation technology. Nebu~Flow, which worked out a way to…
Can Scotland forge a healthy start-up partnership?
Two constituencies came together in September for an event designed to stimulate activity in an emerging technology cluster. At the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, members of the tech community met…
Healthcare innovators urged to sign up to NHS ‘clinical entrepreneur’ programme
Healthcare innovators in Scotland are being urged to sign up to an NHS ‘clinical entrepreneur’ programme. The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) is designed to help healthcare professionals rapidly turn…
Scotland’s ‘cluttered’ innovation ecosystem needs greater clarity, says healthcare innovation boss
Scottish Government innovation minister Richard Lochhead recently tagged InnoScot Health and other organisations into a LinkedIn post, stating: “I’m giving a lot of thought just now as to how we…
North Lanarkshire’s health and social care plan promises to be ‘bold and innovative’
North Lanarkshire’s new health and social care plan has pledged to be ‘bold and innovative’ in the ways that it delivers frontline services. The strategic commissioning document will find a…
Local councils in Scotland poised to adopt new digital telecare solution from Chubb
Local authorities in Scotland are poised to adopt a new nationwide digital alarm system that will help keep some of the most vulnerable residents safe in their homes. Digital Office…
Highlands region records ‘upwards’ trend in usage of suicide prevention app
The Highlands has recorded an ‘upwards’ trend in the usage of a suicide prevention app, which is in its fifth year since launch. Eighty new users per month are accessing…
National Eye Health Week ‘perfect time’ for eyecare innovation
National Eye Health Week is the “perfect time” for NHS Scotland staff to set their sights on fresh ophthalmic innovation, according to a health innovation body. InnoScot Health says the…
‘It’s not just the tech, it’s the mindset’. How a startup culture could revolutionise healthcare
It is not enough to simply plug technology into existing healthcare interventions, we must draw inspiration not only from what startups have achieved but from how they have gone about…