Emerging Technologies

Elucid’s Pill connect dispensing system will provide contract research organisations (CROs) and pharma the ability to show adherence data during a clinical trial, across country, site, and individual patient number.

The system allows NHS staff to book tests via smartphone or computer.

Also, new King’s College and Mindwave Ventures app will allow people to track substance use and recovery. 

Munich-based, digital surgical technology company, Brainlab has announced the foundation of new subsidiary, Snke OS, in a move that will allow Snke OS to market to a wider circle of industry startups, partners and competitors.

The scanner, which can read up to six people’s temperature at once, could be used to protect workers from COVID-19.

The new app will use Bluetooth tech and will likely launch in July in Ottawa. 

HIMSS Media sits down with another VR researcher to discuss virtual medicine and VR's multidisciplinary potential for care.

Demand for tech solutions has soared in Finland during the pandemic as healthcare providers seek new ways to diagnose and treat patients, and source properly tested PPE.

The study indicated that the reagent used in Lucence’s SAFER Sample saliva collection kit inactivates SARS-CoV-2 within 45 seconds of sample collection. 

VR researcher and advocate Dr. Robert Louis gives HIMSS Media insight on the current state of VR in healthcare, and how the virus has impacted his hospital's rollout of the technology.