EIDO Healthcare: The proven experts in informed consent solutions for over 20 years
At EIDO Healthcare we are committed to helping our customers achieve excellence in the vital areas of informed consent and clinical governance. We provide medico-legally sound patient information and digital...
First smartphone-based ECG recommended by public health body
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued medical technologies guidance 64 (MTG64) recommending KardiaMobile as an option for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF). This is for people...
Informed consent and clinical governance in the digital age
At EIDO Healthcare we are committed to helping our customers achieve excellence in the vital areas of informed consent and clinical governance. We provide medico-legally sound patient information and digital solutions...
NHS Scotland CEO: ‘Digital approaches are vital to our recovery’
The last two years have been the most challenging that the NHS in Scotland has ever lived through. I am enormously proud of the way in which staff across our...
NHS Scotland ‘cannot afford’ to slow down digitisation, says tech boss
NHS Scotland “cannot afford to drop the pace” of digital transformation as it emerges from the pandemic, according to a former health tech boss. Deryck Mitchelson, who stepped down from his role...
Ministers urged to scrap Covid app relaunch over low usage rates
Ministers have been urged to scrap plans to relaunch Scotland’s “failing” contact tracing app as it emerged fewer than two in 10 people are using it properly. Despite new data...
Digital system to spot when hospital patients are getting sicker completes successful trial
A digital system that automatically alerts clinical staff when patients are becoming unwell has been successfully tested as part of plans for a new hospital in Lanarkshire. The Patientrack digital...
Unlocking the power of AI to make babies
BJSS is a leading digital consultancy with 10 years’ healthcare experience designing and delivering a range of critical NHS systems and services, including NHS Spine, the e-Referral Service and the...
Protecting cloud-based Scottish health data from cyber harms
The Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at the University of Dundee specialises in the provision of secure data collaboration to facilitate cutting-edge medical research. The centre holds consented health data on...
Groundbreaking technique restores ‘feel’ to surgeons performing robotic surgery
Scottish researchers have been awarded £1.25 million to develop a “groundbreaking” technique to restore surgeons’ sense of ‘feel’ when performing robotic surgery. The new method will be used during keyhole...

