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Posted: 31 january 2022

Healthcare And Technology: A Unified Analytical Approach For A Competitive Advantage

As our recent history around the globe has shown, there is an unavoidable link between technology and the healthcare industry. The ability to innovate and bring solutions to market is quicker than ever, ensuring these innovations help to transform the business of healthcare by creating efficiencies for providers as well as cutting time and costs so that patients can enjoy better outcomes from their treatment plans.

How Automation Is Transforming Healthcare Jobs

All jobs are vulnerable to some degree of automation, including those in healthcare. The specter of automation delivers a quick stab of panic for many as they imagine their future. The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter described this process as creative destruction. Automation captures two sides of a single coin: promise and threat. History teaches us that technological advancement produces more opportunity than it eliminates. But tell that to the switchboard operator or gas station attendant. Replaceable You "Not me — not my job," you say? Well, yes, many people believe that their job is not on the proverbial chopping block. The list of reasons is long: You’ve got extensive training. You have a list of degrees behind your name. You're creative. You're smart. You work in a booming industry. You're an essential worker, for crying out loud! But the data wizards from McKinsey tell a different story: Half of our current work is subject to automation using the technologies we now have. And this means a wholesale transformation of the workplace is well on its way.

How Mat Rule and Toca are resolving new needs that old legacy systems can’t respond to and helping clinicians get back to their core function – patient care

By Teresa Murray freelance writer Healthtech and Giant Health Conference Writer One thing that has frustrated Mat Rule throughout his career, is technology that gets in people’s way. Mat worked as a consultant for major companies during the digital transformation…

AI May Cure The Ills In Healthcare Tech

As our healthcare system struggles toward a model in which consumers are at the center of the equation, technology is playing a rapidly increasing role in smoothing their way through the ecosystem. Consumers are demanding a better healthcare experience, but there’s a massive collision coming between the exabytes of global health data and consumer health and insurance illiteracy. “Interoperability” describes a set of American regulatory initiatives that are in play right now and will drive change in the industry for years to come. As president of a healthcare technology company, I believe them to be as significant as any changes to the system made in this century, including the introduction of HIPAA privacy regulations and the Affordable Care Act.

Elastisys are nominated ‘University spin-off of the Year’!

“Elastisys has undergone an impressive growth journey in terms of both sales and staff. Team development has been strong from both a diversity and competence perspective.“ -The Umeå gala 2022. Read more here.

Virtual Healthcare On A Global Scale

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) isn’t a new concept, but interest and adoption have increased significantly in the past 18 months. The pandemic took remote care from an enticing notion to the need-to-have status it holds now. Covid-19 spurred healthcare systems and organizations around the world to explore and execute medical monitoring differently.

5G could have a transformative effect on many of the UK’s enterprises and industries

What are the real timelines and is the UK actually ready for 5G? Real Wireless new paper is based on the work with UK5G. Download it here.

120 GP practices deploy X-on telephony tools

Practices across Stockport and North Central London CCG have deployed X-on’s telephony solution, Surgery Connect. The company has announced the completion of the two deployments, spanning 120 GP practices across the areas, delivering its cloud-based system. It means practices can access multiple telephone lines, manage call queues, report on trends and call volumes, tailor messages, and utilise call centre support during busy periods. X-on now cites an estimated 11.2 million patients are served by 1,170 practices in England and Wales using its tools. Hardip Kahlon, Senior Programme Manager at North Central London CCG, said: “The technology has made day-to-day practice management easier, and also for doctors when they want to dial out to contact a patient as they no longer have to work around a limited number of phone lines. Patients are benefiting too as they no longer experience an engaged line when trying to book a call at a busy time for the practice, but can retain their place in the queue by getting a call back for an appointment.” Paul Bensley, Chief Executive Officer at X-on, added: “In the last twenty months primary care has faced its own particular challenges in meeting the healthcare needs of patients, requiring it to be highly adaptable and versatile. “Implementing a cloud-based telephony system that draws on innovative, contemporary technology is an essential component in providing a modern, flexible, multi-function platform that enables patients and practices to communicate quickly and effortlessly.” In August, HTN welcomed X-on for our first Digital Primary Care conference. The company held a session to discuss how to support GP surgeries with call demand. The talk focused on how cloud telephony can support primary care providers with managing call demand, as well as remote consultations and other services. You can watch the session back here.

NHS BACKLOG In Association with Copeland Clinical Ai (C2-Ai)

17th February 2022 This event is free to attend and looks to focus on the following topics: Recruitment & Retention Diagnostics Infrastructure Elective Treatment Patients Flow Read more here.

How Big Health’s Digital Therapeutics are partnering with the Scottish Government to meet increased demand to improve insomnia and anxiety

By Teresa Murray, freelance writer for healthtech and writer for Giant Health. Few among us will have escaped the curse of sleepless nights, when unless adrenaline courses through our veins, one is at best sluggish and somewhat out of sorts…

Four of Kamet Ventures portfolio companies have been named to The DIA Community's Top 250!

Congratulations to Air Doctor, AKUR8, Anorak and Setoo now known as Pattern on their selection and inclusion among 250 of the most impressive, inspiring and impactful #insurtechs! Read more here.

How tragedy and the film Avatar inspired Mélanie Peron's to create an innovative virtual reality device to take away the pain and anguish of invasive clinical procedures

By Teresa Murray, freelance writer for Healthtech and for Giant Health Melanie Peron is no stranger to pain. A migraine sufferer for years, she tried everything from drugs to alternative therapies, all to no avail. Yet, it wasn’t her migraines…

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