NHS Scotland staff overwhelmingly support innovation as means to improve patient services and tackle Covid backlogs
Nine out of 10 NHS employees in Scotland believe innovation must be ‘at the heart’ of efforts to improve patient services and tackle Covid-related backlogs, according to a new survey....
Boost for breast screening as research trials in Aberdeen show how AI is making an impact on cancer diagnosis
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to slash the time it takes for women to receive a breast cancer diagnosis in Scotland, according to a senior clinician. Studies carried out on...
The fight against skin cancer in Scotland
Scotland’s cancer waiting times You’ve been referred to the urgent suspicion of cancer (USC) pathway by your GP because they suspect your mole might be skin cancer. While it’s worrying,...
Remote patient monitoring offers valuable insights to help improve operational and strategic decision-making
Some patients like remote monitoring because it makes them feel reassured about their NHS care. Others enjoy the freedom of being able to live independently with long-term health conditions. For...
Unified data powering Cancer Tracking and the National Treatment Centre NHS Highland
With waiting lists across the UK at an all-time high, NHS Highland have taken major steps to ensure their patients are treated fast and in clinical priority order. Two projects...
Making health data work better in Scotland
The ABPI exists to make the UK the best place in the world to research, develop and use new medicines and vaccines. We represent companies of all sizes who invest...
Assisting the sharing of knowledge and management of scanning procedures from a distance with Siemens Healthineers
The pace of development in new and enhanced medical technologies will only accelerate in the future as part of a wider acceleration in technology trends such as robotics, AI and...
Scotland’s NHS innovation body launches free webinars to spur new ideas in service delivery
Scotland’s innovation body for the NHS is launching a series of webinars aimed at ‘“getting great ideas into patients’ hands”. InnoScot Health, which partners with the NHS on bringing innovation...
Glasgow researchers to create brain bot to combat epileptic seizures
Researchers in Scotland are part of a new project which is setting out to develop tiny injectable robots capable of predicting and mitigating epileptic seizures. The project, called CROSSBRAIN, is...
Acquisition to ‘unlock growth’ for Edinburgh firm’s digital maternity system
An Edinburgh health tech company has been acquired by one of the UK’s leading providers of hospital-wide software for the NHS. Clevermed will work with System C to “unlock growth...
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