Heriot-Watt AI spin-out which helps ‘reduce isolation’ to play part in fight against coronavirus
A Scottish university spin-out is developing artificial intelligence (AI) software that that can understand and respond to human conversation, which can help play a part in the global fight against...
Award-winning platform which improves quality of life for cancer patients set for national roll-out
My Clinical Outcomes (MCO), an award-winning online platform which uses data to improve the quality of life of cancer patients, is targeting a national roll-out following the success of five...
Med-Tech company unveils smart device set to ‘revolutionise’ how medical events are managed in the air
A med-tech spin-out from the University of Aberdeen has unveiled a smart device set to revolutionise how medical events are managed in the air. MIME Technologies has launched a device which the has...
Global health and safety software company secures £7m to expand
A global health and safety software company headquartered in Scotland has secured £7m investment funding to accelerate growth. Glasgow-based SHE Software has completed a Series B round led by Frog...
Government launches £10m Innovation Scholars scheme to develop new tech for NHS
A new £10 million scheme will give leading researchers and businesses, based in the UK, the chance to work together to develop treatments and cures for those facing life-threatening conditions...
App shares real-time data with clinicians to improve Scottish breast cancer patients’ experience and their health outcomes
An app that allows breast cancer patients to record treatment symptoms, with data delivered to clinicians in real time, is being trialled at NHS Lothian. OWise, created by Px HealthCare, lets...
National Digital Platform Chief Technology Officer hits out at ‘bullies’ in NHS and public sector
The man tasked with building a new national digital platform for health and care in Scotland has hit out at “bullies” within the NHS and wider public sector. Alistair Hann,...
Scotland’s ‘first digital hospital’ will boast realtime operational command centre
Scotland’s ‘first digital hospital’ will feature an operational command centre to help clinicians understand in realtime when patients are deteriorating. The state-of the-art University Hospital Monklands will be furnished with...
Edinburgh health tech company launches dedicated care jobs site
An Edinburgh healthcare technology company is launching ‘Scotland’s first dedicated jobs board for the care sector’. Novacare has built the platform to coincide with the Scottish Government’s Adult Social Care...
NHSMail improvements will beef up cybersecurity and save 40,000 manual work hours
Improvements to NHSMail – the national secure collaboration service for health and social care in England and Scotland – will beef up cybersecurity and save 40,000 hours-a-year in manual process...
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