Digital health
Sword Health is set to acquire Headspace as it expands further into behavioural health, according to public documents. The acquisition is due to take effect on September 14. Details of the transaction remain limited and neither company had responded to requests for comment. New York-based Sword Health began in musculoskeletal care and has since expanded [...]
Digital mental health company Psyomics has secured a place on the Government’s £14 billion G-Cloud 15 framework, giving NHS and other public-sector organisations a more streamlined route to procure its technology; beseen. The move supports the wider adoption of Psyomics’ technology across UK healthcare, as the company looks to expand its work with NHS mental [...]
By James Hitchen, patent attorney, HGF A single telehealth consultation may involve a patient's phone in Manchester, a clinician's terminal in Madrid, an inference model running on cloud infrastructure in Virginia, and a device manufacturer's telemetry service in Bengaluru. The technology is built to ignore borders. However, the patents protecting it cannot, as each of [...]
By Dr Neil Panchal, co-founder & CMO, Longevitix One of my patients, a 52-year-old training for her first triathlon, had fourteen months of wearable data on file. Every value sat within normal range. The AI layer in our platform flagged what a range check would never catch: a slow rise in resting heart rate alongside [...]
A digital tool could identify future health risks in people with learning disabilities and support earlier action to prevent avoidable deaths, researchers say. Using information including age, sex and existing health conditions, the tool indicates which conditions a person may be more likely to develop and when, based on patterns seen in people with similar [...]
Agentis Health Group has acquired Clinical Pharmacist Solutions to strengthen its healthcare business and align with the 10-Year Health Plan’s shift towards community and preventative services. The two CQC-registered businesses have a complementary heritage in providing pharmacy solutions to independent mental health hospitals and care providers, GP practices and primary care networks. The acquisition will [...]
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new preventative approach to help identify people who may be at risk of liver disease and wider metabolic ill health earlier, before they develop serious complications. The pathway, supported through Somerset’s Community Diagnostic Centre programme, which is designed to improve access to medical imaging and tests, will use [...]
By Qurrat Ul Ain, senior technical advisor at IDA Ireland Digital health is entering a new phase where regulation and technology are converging rather than competing. In Europe, particularly in Ireland, regulation is no longer a barrier to innovation; it is becoming a market-shaping force that is creating entirely new categories of products, platforms, and [...]
Applications have opened for American Health Association's Health Tech Competition, which will select five finalists working on cardiovascular and brain health technologies. The global competition is seeking market-ready technologies for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of conditions including high blood pressure, stroke and heart failure. Five finalists will pitch their technologies at Scientific Sessions 2026, [...]
The stroke rehabilitation ward, Ward 9, within the Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli is the first ward to go live at Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) with their electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) system from supplier, Better, on Wednesday 15 July. Hywel Dda UHB has joined six other health boards across Wales in [...]
