Citizens Advice Scotland calls on Avaya for 0800 NHS helpline
Citizens Advice Scotland has chosen Avaya to provide the technology behind the ‘Patient Advice & Support Service’ (PASS), a new 0800 helpline service for anyone who wants to give feedback,…
Medical Visualisation Hackathon to be held at CodeBase
Product Forge and Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems to run competitive hackathon at CodeBase in Edinburgh later this autumn. Entrepreneurially minded data scientists and analysts, clinicians, designers, and software engineers, will…
Reducing costs and empowering citizens with help from IBM Watson Health
Harrow Council wanted to expand its ‘My Community ePurse’ personal management solution and has added IBM Watson Care Manager to create an offer suitable for a larger audience of service…
Made in Dundee, the virtual reality device beloved by Queen Victoria
The Brewster stereoscope, a “virtual reality” headset handmade by a Victorian instrument-maker in Dundee is to be offered for sale at auction later this week. The device gave the illusion…
UNICEF and The Data Lab call for collaboration to tackle child obesity
An initiative encouraging public and private sector organisations to share data, with the aim of improving the lives of children, has been launched by The Data Lab and UNICEF. The…
Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy rolls out across Scotland
A national computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) programme to support improved mental health will be up and running across Scotland by the end of the year, the Scottish Government said…
Innovation challenge launches projects aimed at revolutionising cancer care
Five projects seeking to improve cancer care in Scotland have won a share of £325,000 funding from the first round of the Cancer Innovation Challenge. The challenge, which was launched…
Digital health strategy in development
The Scottish Government’s eHealth division is developing a five-year digital health and social care strategy for publication next summer. “Person-centred health and social care is at the heart of our…
3D ‘atlas’ of human body published
Physical book generates hologramsVisualisation company Holoxica has created the world’s first holographic 3D digital human anatomy atlas, allowing teaching hospitals, medical schools, colleges and research centres a unique view of…
‘Precision medicine’ is about to get extremely close up. And personal.
Software developed by Edinburgh-based Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems can help show the human heart pulsing in 4D, and in real-time In a small office in Edinburgh a team of scientists…
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