Insight
By Ahmad Hussain, Reddie & Grose The global wearable technology market has surged in the past decade, evolving from simple step-counters to sophisticated health-monitoring platforms capable of capturing a wide range of biophysical data. Smart rings are a particularly fast-growing segment: valued at approximately USD 420 million today, the market is expected to exceed USD [...]
The conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) at HIMSS 2026 carries a sense of urgency that is impossible to ignore. Walk the halls and AI is everywhere. Demonstrations of predictive analytics, clinical decision tools and large language models promise to reshape how health systems operate and how care is delivered. Entire sections of [...]
By Tomaž Gornik, CEO of Better Shared Care Records (SCRs) have undergone significant evolution over the past two decades. What began as relatively simple mechanisms for sharing documents across organisational boundaries is now moving towards intelligent, conversational systems that actively support clinicians, patients, and health systems. This evolution can be understood in four broad stages, [...]
HIMSS 2026 hums with a familiar energy. Demonstration screens glow with dashboards and predictive models. Crowds gather around booths where engineers translate clinical complexity into algorithms. Artificial intelligence dominates the conversation – almost every conversation. Something important has shifted this year as more than 30,000 gather to discuss health technology, wow. The [...]
Health Tech Tracker is your monthly snapshot of the facts, figures, opinions, trends and challenges shaping the development of health tech. The report aims to provide a concise update for busy health tech professionals on the many factors influencing your work. Below you will find a breakdown of deals, developments and opportunities from the last [...]
By Devina Rana, partner at McDermott’s London Real Estate Practice We spend a great deal of time advising private equity sponsors on European real estate transactions from our London office. Over the past few years, one asset class keeps coming back to the table - healthcare real estate. Sometimes the interest is tentative, other times [...]
By Tuned Global Music in the medicine and research space has proved to have significant therapeutic benefits in treating conditions including dementia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD and ADHD. Now, with the evolution of music technology and AI, the potential to heal through music has become even more powerful. At a recent industry event, three experts sat [...]
By Mark Hutchinson, executive vice president, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA) As Scotland’s health and care system faces rising demand, workforce pressures and growing expectations from patients, digital transformation is no longer optional, it is a fundamental principle. However, as digital programmes mature, the challenge is no longer simply about deployment or scale. Increasingly, [...]
By Orlando Agrippa, founder and CEO, Sanius Health Walk through any London commute at 8am and you’ll see the future of healthcare swinging off people’s wrists. Thousands of tiny black screens flicker with heart rates, sleep scores, oxygen saturation, and stress metrics. The population is quietly running a rolling clinical trial on itself while buying [...]
By Carolyn Rogers, associate, Reddie & Grose Since their launch, Ozempic and Wegovy have dominated the headlines. Both drugs are manufactured by Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and contain the same active ingredient, semaglutide, which is a GLP-1 receptor agonist. However, Ozempic is directed to the treatment of type 2 diabetes, whilst [...]
