Opinion
By Tamara Everington, chief medical officer at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust When NHS organisations reflect on successful EPR implementations, the story often focuses on systems, suppliers and timelines. At Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH), the decisive factor was people. A strong network of clinical champions and super users helped translate a [...]
Health innovation minister James Frith said he was worried about “mistrust” of US defence and health tech company Palantir and “the impact it could have on people’s willingness to share data with the NHS”. The government is deciding whether to end Palantir's £330m contract to operate the NHS federated data platform, which is intended to [...]
By McDermott Will & Schulte Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how healthcare and life sciences companies innovate, operate and invest. What was once viewed as a future consideration is now a present reality, with adoption accelerating at a pace that has exceeded expectations. Recent discussions, including those at our European Health and Life Sciences Symposium, [...]
By Sanius Health One of the most overused words in oncology is "manageable". An adverse event can be clinically manageable and still change the structure of someone's life. It can be recorded as Grade 1 or Grade 2, recur across treatment cycles, erode sleep, reduce mobility, weaken appetite, impair cognition and quietly determine whether a [...]
By Sanius Health As we enjoy the last days of Summer and head into September, one of the clearest shifts we are seeing across life sciences is a surge in demand for patient preference science. Some of that momentum reflects the work of Kielo Health, Sanius Health’s preference science division, led by Dr Tommi Tervonen, [...]
By Tracy Mcclelland, global chief clinical information officer (CCIO), Alcidion I am a nurse and CCIO, not a quantum scientist. I want to be clear about that upfront, because it shapes exactly what I think the UK’s most important quantum priority is, and why. Twenty-eight years of clinical practice and informatics leadership have taught me [...]
Paul Sanders, President UK and Ireland at RLDatix, discusses how workforce management technology can help NHS organisations make better use of workforce capacity. For years, the NHS workforce debate has focused on supply: recruitment, retention and vacancies. Those issues remain critical, but they can overshadow a second challenge that is becoming increasingly important: how organisations [...]
FINN Partners, one of the world's largest independent communications and public affairs firms, has recruited Jeffrey L. Sturchio, a leading figure in international health policy, as a senior adviser to its Global Health Practice. Sturchio will sit within the firm's Health Policy and Impact Group, working alongside managing partner Mark Chataway on efforts to advise [...]
Selena Gomez has asked a court to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by investors in mental health startup Wondermind, calling the allegations legally deficient. Gomez, 34, filed the motion on Wednesday in Delaware federal court after being named in a lawsuit earlier this month alleging fraud and breach of contract. The complaint also names her [...]
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 [...]
