Technology giants target US healthcare industry Apple is set to announce a wearable health device, which will be able to monitor everything from our heart rates and caffeine intake to saturated fats, blood sugar and oxygen levels. During a launch event on 9th September in California, Apple is expected to reveal the wearable device that … [Read more…]
Expert looks to technology and changing healthcare models to cater for growing population Prominent medic Joshua Liu, MD has stated that hiring more doctors is not the solution for the American doctor shortage, and that instead, closer focus should be on how healthcare is going to evolve over the coming years. Writing for The Health … [Read more…]
New partnership sees digital healthcare take an impressive step forward Google is partnering with prestigious pharmaceutical giant Novaritis to create glucose sensing contact lenses for diabetics. Digital forerunners Google are used to issuing out fast paced innovative ideas, their business model founded on producing and selling these gadgets and gizmos. Pair this with the legitimacy … [Read more…]
Young doctors feel app impacted positively on patient care A new study has revealed that 45.2% of junior doctors feel that using a hospital specific mobile phone app could have a moderately positive impact on patient care. The research, which featured 39 participants across various specialties of medicine, used a iPhone app that included general … [Read more…]
With more people living longer and an increasingly ageing population to tend to, the NHS is slowly seeing health costs creep up on the sly, with the development of numerous chronic conditions in elderly people impacting on additional healthcare costs. The same is true across the pond, as America’s baby boom generation (born between 1946 … [Read more…]
Technology helps GP’s and CCG’s collaborate to fine tune services Technological advances are slowly but surely making their mark within medicine, but not only with the impressive boosts in treatment and management options – technology is even now having a hand in speeding up the diagnosis and analysis of patients’ symptoms, acting as an aid … [Read more…]
Healthcare has always been a very personal and interactive industry, with huge importance placed on building a rapport, and having face to face contact with your patients. However, changes in society and technology are increasingly morphing this dynamic as more and more emphasis is placed on patients’ monitoring and controlling their conditions at home. An … [Read more…]
With our smart phones a mere finger strut away, keeping in touch with families and friends, researching our interests and arranging our social calendars has never been easier, with social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin enabling us to connect in a staggering variety of ways, either with people we know, or complete … [Read more…]
The technology era is well and truly here. You can’t even take a sideways glance without stumbling across a multitude of gadgets and gizmos, all designed to make life easier. Despite the abundance of apps and social media in our homes and workplaces, how does this growth in mobile technology apply to our healthcare? Should … [Read more…]