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Posted: 19 october 2021

Only 1 day to go until 8th Annual Open Meeting by The UK Pharmacogenetics & Stratified Medicine Network

The UK Pharmacogenetics & Stratified Medicine Network 8th Annual Open Meeting, will take place at the Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, Central London on October 20th. The Open Meeting will be held as a hybrid event, with delegates on-site and…

U.S. Hispanics: The Overlooked Stepchild Of American Healthcare & Why Startups Are The Answer

U.S. Hispanics are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to the American healthcare system. We’ve all heard stories of less than ideal health outcomes U.S. Hispanics have suffered in the past. As a Mexican-American, I too, know that story better than I wish I did. Up until last year, I spent nearly 6 years visiting my kid brother at the Texas Children’s Hospital who was in and out of Leukemia treatments until his last breath. Maybe it’s because the hospital was in Texas or maybe it’s because Leukemia disproportionately affects Latinx children; but, I realized most (if not all) of my brother’s neighbors were Latinx. Throughout endless conversations with their worried parents, I quickly learned how little these families understood their own children’s prognosis or care instructions. Furthermore, these Latinx families had been lucky enough to be the ones to find themselves at a world class hospital; yet, they all knew many families like themselves that hadn’t had a chance to save their loved ones largely because of a failing, unsustainable, and non-scalable healthcare system.

We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with Happify Health once again this year!

We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with Happify Health! Happify Health is an intelligent platform of digital therapeutics that improve mental health, physical health & well-being. Join us at #GIANT2021 and find out more about them.

Are you an #earlystage #startup seeking investment?

Join Health Foundry for a FREE event in partnership with MedCity, Queen Mary University Enterprise Zone & wmahsn on an exciting new joint investment call from Medcity and CapitalSpex. Today at 1 pm. Read more here.

Control Healthcare's Front Door Or Be Pushed To The Side Entrance

We live in a world of immediate gratification that stops at healthcare. Executives in this industry use Facebook, Apple and Netflix personally, while many hospitals still fail to appreciate the transferable qualities that need to be applied before patients walk through someone else's front door.

Are you as excited as Brittney Knight about the innovation & expertise at #TRANSFUSION?

TRANSFUSION – The Cross-Industry Open Innovation Challenge will bring robotics and automation in the fields of clinical applications and logistics. To give a better insight into possible applications the hackathon will be accompanied by a summit. The core part of TRANSFUSION…

Adrian Cheng Teams Up With Covid Testing Firm Prenetics For Greater Healthcare Accessibility

Adrian Cheng, the CEO of property giant New World Development, has been seeking opportunities that not only generate profits but also create shared value for society. Now, he’s formed a partnership with a diagnostic and genetic test developer called Prenetics Group that promises to do just that.

Mediktor raises $13m round for its AI-Triage and pre-diagnosis medical assistant

Mediktor – the Spanish healthtech company which provides a sophisticated pre-diagnosis medical assistant – announced that it has raised a €11 million financing round to keep on improving their elaborate technology and expand their international presence. The round was led…

How Digital Tools Could Make Measurement-Based Behavioral Healthcare Possible

Measurement-based care has transformed the identification and management of physical health diagnoses. By the 1950s, blood pressure cuffs became the standard of care for monitoring high blood pressure, contributing to the significant reduction of deaths due to heart disease. Glucose test strips, first introduced in the mid-1960s, were able to accurately assess blood sugar levels quickly and effectively. Both seemingly small inventions helped shift the health paradigm from intuition to quantification, changing healthcare dramatically.

Innovation Forum has extended their 30% off Early Bird offer until 10 October!

Invest in Innovation Over the past 8 years, the global Innovation Forum network has featured the most vibrant health-tech ecosystems in Europe and is proud to highlight Barcelona as one of the fastest-growing European ecosystems in 2021 in this 2-day…

GP machine learning tech raises £2.1million

Abtrace, a health-tech start-up, has raised £2.1 million of seed funding to support its machine learning technology and transform how chronic and long-term health conditions are detected, monitored and treated. The AI tool integrates with GP practice systems to help identify which tests or treatments a patient with a long-term health condition might benefit from. The company said it acts as an “intelligent layer on top of the electronic health record”, with the system suggesting actions based on an individual’s medical history, as well as learning from a wider pool of data points. One example the company provides is that when a patient with diabetes attends a GP surgery for a routine blood test, the Abtrace system will show the GP or HCA, which other tests are due, and suggest additional tests which the patient might benefit from. It hopes to then minimise the need for repeat trips, ensure key tests aren’t missed, and automate routine interventions if needed. The tool has been tested across several GP practices, where it demonstrated a 30 per cent reduction in the number of HCA appointments needed and halved the number of repeat prescriptions that required a GP appointment to process it. The company now plans to develop the tool further to spot the early signs of emerging conditions, by taking into account a patient’s symptoms or health issues over a period of time. Digital innovations in primary care have been a focus for us here at HTN, with our first ever digital primary care conference taking place last month. At the conference, we were joined by Katherine Church, Chief Digital Officer, from Surrey Heartlands CCG, who focused on digital programmes and approaches. We also welcomed Dr Ursula Montgomery for a keynote on the future of general practice and Dr Minal Bakhai for our second keynote, focusing on a digital primary care.

We are pleased to announce our partnership with Raconteur's "Future of Healthcare" report

We are pleased to announce our partnership with Raconteur's "Future of Healthcare" report, due to be published in The Times newspaper & digital editions 16th November. The special edition will cover the future outlooks and innovations taking place in the…

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