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Mashup Score: 0Artificial intelligence and robotics to help detect urinary tract infections earlier - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are developing artificial intelligence (AI) and socially assistive robots to detect urinary tract infections (UTIs) earlier. The FEATHER project aims to reduce the number of serious adverse outcomes that can result from late or misdiagnosis and reduce the amount of antibiotics that are prescribed while clinicians…
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Mashup Score: 0Ground-breaking research seeks to ‘rehabilitate scotland’ through mentoring prison leavers - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
A ground-breaking mentoring system for prison leavers has shown dramatic improvements in reoffending and substance abuse rates, according to a powerful new report. Rehabilitating Scotland: Exploring the impact of mentoring-based throughcare found that 70% of prison leavers reduced or ended substance abuse. It also found that mentoring has the most success among prison leavers in encouraging…
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Mashup Score: 0Coventry University to receive £5milion grant to fund digital laboratory - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
An innovative digital laboratory will be created at Coventry University to further help students learn the in-demand skills needed within the healthcare and engineering sectors. The Precision Digital Manufacturing and Healthcare Technology Lab has been awarded £5million from the Office for Students (OfS) and will be equipped with industry standard digital technologies such as 3D metal printing…
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Mashup Score: 1Spinal injury patient raises over £1,000 for RJAH spinal unit - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
A spinal injury patient who received extensive care at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) has continued to support the unit he was cared for on by raising £1,150 to benefit other spinal injury patients. Gavin Pugh, who is from Bangor, North Wales, came to the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries (MCSI) at the Oswestry based-hospital following a life-changing work accident…
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Mashup Score: 0The results are clear: Digital treatment is just as good as face-to-face treatment - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
Researchers from Lund University have confirmed in a brand new study that both digital and face-to-face treatment of hip and knee osteoarthritis provide equally clinically relevant improvement. In 2021, a randomized controlled trial conducted at the University of Nottingham, England was published showing that people with knee osteoarthritis who randomly received digital treatment, reduced their…
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Mashup Score: 1The Health Foundation responds to the Autumn Statement 2022 - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, said: Today’s Autumn Statement will provide short term respite for a chronically overstretched health and care service but fails to tackle the underlying challenges facing the system. While the NHS and social care have been offered some protection to 2025, most other public services still face significant real terms cuts. This,…
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NHS patients throughout the West Midlands are to benefit from a digital pathology programme, designed to help reduce cancer backlogs, transform services, and improve the speed and accuracy of cancer diagnosis. As one of the largest digital pathology programmes in Europe, the West Midlands Cancer Alliance initiative covers a population of 5.8 million people across four NHS pathology networks and…
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Mashup Score: 0Increasing handover delays contributing to growing ambulance waiting times - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
Increase in handover delays – the time an ambulance spends waiting outside a hospital before transferring a patient – is a major cause of the decline in ambulance response times, new analysis finds. In July 2022, more than 1 in 10 ambulances waited over an hour with patients outside hospitals – up from 1 in 50 in July 2019. Patients with the most critical calls are waiting 18% longer than in…
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Mashup Score: 0Netwrix study: 86% of cloud attacks in the healthcare sector result in financial losses or other damage - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, today announced additional findings for the healthcare sector from its global 2022 Cloud Security Report. 61 percent of respondents in the healthcare industry suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure within the last 12 months, compared to 53 per cent for other verticals. Phishing was the most common type of attack…
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Mashup Score: 0NHSE Appoints GP-Led Technology Provider on Framework to Ease Primary Care Staffing Crisis - Digital Health Technology News - 1 year(s) ago
A flexible staffing platform, My Locum Manager (MLM), has been selected by NHS England as a recommended digital flexible pools provider for the second time – helping Integrated Care Boards to increase the sessional capacity of their practices, improve the continuity of patient care, and ease pressure on staff. The current staffing crisis being faced by Primary Care has stemmed from a lack of…
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