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NEX Health Intelligence has raised €1m in pre-seed funding to develop AI that predicts hospital infection spread before it moves between patients and wards. The company applies artificial intelligence and advanced mathematical modelling to help hospitals detect, predict and prevent highly resistant infections before they spread between patients and wards. Founded in 2022 [...]
System C has today set out a 12-month artificial intelligence (AI) strategy that will extend ambient AI into emergency care this autumn and maternity services soon after, building on tools already cutting social care documentation time by half across 15 local authorities. Announced to more than 500 customers at the company's annual UserCon conference, the [...]
Immunotherapy may help some patients with treatment-resistant depression, early trial results suggest. The study looked at people with moderate to severe depression who had not responded well to standard antidepressants. About one in three people with depression do not get better with the main medical treatments available, which are based on targeting chemicals [...]
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has opened consultation on a rare disease pathway aimed at speeding therapies to patients and asking industry to help shape the final framework. The draft sets out a technology-agnostic regulatory framework, meaning it is intended to work across different therapy types, to address scientific, evidence and commercial [...]
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with digital mental health company Psyomics to introduce a new digital platform designed to support improved access by reducing pressure on clinicians, whilst integrating seamlessly with the Trusts clinical systems. The Trust has procured Psyomics’ beseen Adult platform to support clinical and administrative efficiency within its Community Mental [...]
The NHS modernation bill, brought forward last week, would create a single patient record in England and cut bureaucracy, with ministers saying it would support safer and faster care. The single patient record would mean all NHS providers, including hospitals and GPs, would have to share data so the right doctors, nurses and specialists across [...]
UroMems has raised US$60m from Ajax Health Fund I to support pivotal trials of its UroActive implant in the US and France ahead of regulatory submissions. The round is the company’s largest fundraising to date and comes less than a year after its US$47m Series C financing in June 2024. Co-founder Hamid Lamraoui [...]
Immune cells trained by scientists may help tackle resistant infections by boosting the body’s own defences instead of relying on new antibiotics. The approach is being explored as antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, continues to reduce the effectiveness of existing treatments. AMR happens when bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites no longer respond to medicines, making infections [...]
A groundbreaking digital perinatal mental health pilot for Black and ethnically minoritised women has helped women access support faster, complete therapy at higher rates, and recover more successfully than national averages. The partnership between digital tech company Dr-Julian and The Essential Baby Company Ltd within a new model of mental health care named haPPIE SHE [...]
Global law firm McDermott Will & Schulte represented Amulet Capital Partners (“Amulet”), a middle-market private equity investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare sector, in its acquisition of TFP Fertility Group, one of the leading fertility care providers in the UK and Northern Europe, from Benefit Street Partners (BSP) – a Franklin Templeton company. The [...]
