Digital health comes of age
A decade ago, we launched Inhealthcare with the ambition of helping to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the UK health service. We saw how technology could free clinicians…
Scotland is still on Mitchelson’s radar
Deryck Mitchelson is a “well kent” face in Scottish cybersecurity. As the former digital director of NHS National Services Scotland he oversaw many of the tech platforms spun up in…
Castlepoint puts AI at the heart of defence
Failure can be an expensive business. And Rachael Greaves, chief executive and co-founder of Castlepoint has seen this at first hand. Greaves was a performance auditor, looking at very big, expensive…
How can we help supercharge scale-ups?
As a nation, we are renowned for our thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Despite the challenges of recent years, figures show that venture capital investment in the United Kingdom hit a record…
Cybersecurity steps up to the next level
Scotland’s technology ecosystem contributed £4.9bn gross value added (GVA) to the country’s economy in 2019, accounting for 3.5 per cent of total GVA, according to Scottish government data. And it is…
Joined-up approach transforms public service
In 2005 a small team of public service professionals, led by Strathclyde Police, got together in Glasgow to form what would eventually become the ground-breaking national Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU). …
Case study: Covid-19 Remote Health Pathway, Scotland
The challenge A review by Scotland’s Technology Enabled Care (TEC) programme in 2020 showed that while most people with Covid-19 recovered, certain groups were at high risk of quickly deteriorating. Identifying ‘silent…
BT underpins Scotland’s digital revolution
Doing the same thing differently will not be good enough in the future. “Organisations will need to do different things,” says Hayden Edwards, senior manager for business development and major…
Islands trials show the power of rural solutions
Imagine fast, secure, and reliable internet – no matter where you live. For many rural communities in Scotland struggling to connect to the internet, this is a stretch. With the…
Prepare your organisation against cyber attacks
Jude McCorry, CEO of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre Earlier this year the UK government invested nearly £40m to help local authorities boost their cyber resilience as part of the…