Category: Health & Social Care

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 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 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...

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 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 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...

A health and social care discussion that comes up regularly in the current climate is how to innovate and collaborate meaningfully in Scotland’s collective drive for recovery, renewal, and transformation.  ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help speed up the diagnosis of heart failure according to a new study by Glasgow researchers. Handheld ultrasound devices using the technology could be deployed to...

A national health research and innovation conference is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office. The event at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in...

Two Scottish universities have taken a £1m-plus share of a UK-wide research fund for artificial intelligence in healthcare. Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University will take £644,000 for AI research in keyhole surgery,...