Piers Ford

An integrated virtual clinic app has been designed to take the heat out of the struggle to maintain appointment levels when they are under intense stress from the COVID-19 response, as the situation steps up the pace of digital transformation.

The remote monitoring health tech company’s timely name-change coincides with a radical shift in the way health data is perceived and used, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

A common toolbox has been compiled to help EU member states take a coordinated and standards-based approach to support exit strategies from their coronavirus containment measures, enabling them to stay complaint with data protection and privacy regulations.

New fund targets projects that exploit satellite and drone technology to address healthcare and wellbeing support challenges exposed by the pandemic.

Their new COVID-19 care app helps ease the impact of staff absence.

Innovators are eager to help but struggle to make the right connections.

Health insurance companies have struggled to keep pace with global digitisation, but if they are to compete with an advancing battalion of disruptors, they need to mobilise coherent digital strategies now – and take the lead in building a new digital ecosystem.

Patients are not embracing video calls with the enthusiasm anticipated by NHS England and many GPs themselves, according to new research from leading app provider askmyGP.

A new programme based at Imperial College London will focus on technologies that help people with dementia to live well in their own homes, while generating data to help researchers better understand the cause and progression of the condition.

Immersive virtual reality is playing a key role in the provision of NHS services to help treat anxieties and phobias.