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Meeting the needs of employee mental health through technology 

Sarah Baldry, VP of People at Wysa, illuminates the transformative potential of placing employee mental well-being in the hands of companies through the integration of HR-supported mental health tools. These tools, offering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy...

Navigating the intersection of mental health and cybersecurity 

As cybercriminals become more persistent and attacks more advanced, Kirsty Paine, Field CTO, Splunk, believes that these pressures combined with talent shortages are resulting in poor mental health for CISOs.  We all have the odd bad day at the office. For ...

What are the potential pitfalls and opportunities presented by the adoption of digital passports in healthcare? 

This month I asked three experts in healthcare and technology, about the potential pitfalls and opportunities presented by the adoption of digital passports in healthcare.  Michael ‘Dersh’ Dershem, Founder and CEO at MAPay  A medical passport, also know...

Genesys accelerates the future of personalized AI-powered experiences at Xperience 2024

Genesys expands automation, analytics and conversational intelligence across the Genesys Cloud platform with new Copilots, Virtual Agents, Empathy Detection and Modern Agent Workspace. Genesys has unveiled multiple innovations to accelerate the impact of...

Handing out vapes in A&E helps smokers quit 

Giving out free e-cigarette starter packs to smokers in hospital A&E departments helps more people quit, NIHR-funded research finds.  Academics from the University of East Anglia conducted a trial in six UK emergency departments between January and...

HDR UK and GA4GH form a partnership to unite genomic and health data 

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have announced a strategic partnership to expand existing open standards work and collaborate in the wider health data space. Together, both organisations plan to learn...

AI-driven synthetic chemistry platform for drug discovery 

Elsevier, a global leader in information and data analytics, has signed a multi-year agreement with Iktos, a company specialising in Artificial Intelligence for new drug discovery. The partnership will strengthen Elsevier’s flagship chemistry solution,...

App helps people reduce their alcohol intake 

A free smartphone app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully. That’s according to a large randomised controlled trial funded by NIHR.  The study, published in eClinicalMedicine, w...

New heart disease calculator could save lives by identifying high-risk patients missed by current tools 

Collaborative research, led from the University of Oxford and published today in Nature Medicine, has developed a new tool called QR4 that more accurately predicts an individual’s 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and stroke,...

Burendo awarded a multi-million contract with the United Kingdom Health Security Agency 

Award-winning product delivery and technology consultancy, Burendo, has been appointed as the technical delivery partner on a multi-million-pound contract with the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), supporting fundamental aspects of its...

Healthcare organisations lose 20% of their sensitive data in every ransomware attack, reports Rubrik Zero Labs

Healthcare organisations experienced 50% more encryption events than the global average across 2023. Recent cyberincidents demonstrate the healthcare industry continues to be a prime target for ransomware hackers. New research by Rubrik Zero Labs reveals...

Clarivate launches Latam market tracking solution

Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has released its Latam market tracking solution, in collaboration with Global Health Intelligence, a leading provider of market intelligence on healthcare infrastructure in frontier m...