Public health hackathon will bring together technologists and medical professionals
Entrepreneurs, the wider technology community, population health, and medical personnel will gather later this month for a three day hackathon focused on solving challenges surrounding public health. Product Forge is…
30% of Scottish 18-24 year olds feel “socially isolated” by social media
The Mental Health Foundation has warned that loneliness is creating mental health problems among tens of thousands of young people across Scotland and social media can be an exacerbating factor….
Andy Murray invests in GoodBox and ZoomDoc
Tennis champion Andy Murray has invested in two early-stage technology startups on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. GoodBox The first is GoodBox, a company that’s hoping to disrupt the charity sector….
West of Scotland health boards create regional portal to access results quickly
Scottish health boards covering 2.2m people are able to share patient information after the completion of a two-year project to create a regional portal. Five west of Scotland health boards…
‘It has big ramifications for patient care’ – winner of medical visualisation hackathon
Eight teams at Product Forge’s hackathon, ‘Medical Visualisation Product Forge’, presented their prototypes to improve medical care on Sunday evening, at CodeBase in Edinburgh. The winning team, Relay, made up…
Scottish health care startup Care Sourcer secures largest contract to date
Scottish health tech startup Care Sourcer has secured its largest contract to date and is now working alongside NHS Gloucestershire Foundation Trust in phase 2 of a project won through the Small…
New technology enables paramedics to send high-quality video and ultrasound
Aberdeen University, NHS Highland and the Scottish Ambulance Service are testing technology which enables paramedics to send high-quality video and ultrasound images ahead of a patient’s arrival at hospital. It…
Connecting care across Fife’s acute, community and mental health hospitals
NHS Fife made a big step this year in connecting the care we provide across our acute, community and mental health hospitals. When we switched on our TrakCare patient information…
Medical visualisation hackathon focused on advances in precision medicine
Product Forge has partnered with Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems Europe and Scottish Health Innovations, to host a hackathon based on creating innovations that would help solve medical challenges faced by…
Computer scientists aim to identify link between places and sounds
A study being carried out by the Universities of Aberdeen, Stirling and Edinburgh is aiming to identify and analyse sounds associated with particular places in a bid to gain an…
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