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...
Scotland’s ‘innovation fellowship scheme’ points to better health and social care future
Harnessing the game-changing potential of emerging technologies is important in every sector – but within NHS Scotland it is absolutely vital. Improving the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare must...
From nuclear submarines to the ward round – Scottish sensing tech firm gearing up for health market expansion after £2m investment
A Scottish digital health start-up has secured a £2m investment as it gears up to scale sensing technology that helps manage patients’ conditions remotely. Waire Health’s C-Detect platform helps clinicians...
German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer acquires Edinburgh digital health start-up
German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer has acquired an Edinburgh digital health start-up that specialises in artificial intelligence-powered medical imaging. Blackford Analysis, which was acquired for an undisclosed but thought to be...

