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stc Group showcases digital medical solutions

stc Group has participated in the Arab Health 2023 conference and exhibition to demonstrate its new digital medical solutions. This included Holo Doctor – a service that offers remote medical consultations through diagnosis and treatment dispensing by...

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University launch project to realise data portability

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University have announced the launch of a project starting in April 2023 to realise data portability for patients’ healthcare data including electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs). As part of...

2023 healthcare outlook: A focused approach for personalised healthcare systems

Mohamed Ezz Eldin, Head of Innovative Medicines at Novartis Gulf, Gulf Countries, reflects on 2022’s impact on healthcare and predictions for the new year. What will we remember about 2022? Two years after the greatest healthcare crisis of our...

Aston University creates one of the world’s first computational reconstructions of a virus in its biological entirety

An Aston University researcher has created one of the first-ever computer reconstructions of a virus, including its complete native genome. Although other researchers have created similar reconstructions, this is the first to replicate the exact chemical...

Mental health is employers’ top priority, but stagnant budgets cause challenges  

Learning and development professionals believe mental health and well-being is the most important e-learning topic for the next 12 months, research from DeltaNet International has shown.    This is closely followed by stress management training...

Bayer to work with Google Cloud on accelerating drug discovery

Bayer AG and Google Cloud have announced a collaboration to drive early drug discovery that will apply Google Cloud’s Tensorflow Processing Units (TPUs), which are custom-developed accelerators designed to run cutting-edge Machine Learning models and...

Data silos threatening productivity and efficiency levels for nearly half of pharma businesses

Nearly half (48%) of senior decision-makers working for drug development companies or manufacturers said data silos derailed the efficiency of cross-functional collaboration in their organisation. This was a key finding of research commissioned by Aspen...

Report reveals UK mental health crisis is worse than estimated in working people

New figures from a leading mental health app, Wysa, show that the UK mental health crisis is worse than estimated in working people. More than one in three (35%) working people suffer moderate to severe depression or severe anxiety – three times...

How to motivate your team at the start of a new year

Whether your teams are fully remote, hybrid or back in the office, January can be a difficult month for feeling motivated and connected to work, especially with the cold, the Christmas comedown and the financial squeeze that often follows December. For...

USFDA grants Breakthrough Designation for blood test to help diagnose inaccessible brain tumours

Datar Cancer Genetics (DCG) has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its ‘TriNetra-Glio’, a blood test to help in the diagnosis of brain tumours.  This is the third test...

Rockdoc launches comprehensive testing and care solutions for Influenza, Covid-19 and Strep Throat

Rockdoc’s Cold and Flu Rescue Kit is the first integrated solution on the Canadian market that allows users to screen for common respiratory illnesses – Strep A, Influenza A and B and COVID-19 – from anywhere and get immediate results and...

Recognizing and stopping insider threats in the healthcare industry

Damian Chung, Business Information Security Officer at Netskope, tells us that information security is one of the most critical areas of health during the Great Resignation trend. As a direct result of COVID-19 burnout, the ongoing Great Resignation trend...