1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (493+ words) Medicine has spent years documenting gender bias among physicians. Pay gaps, patient trust, career penalties tied to motherhood – all of it has been measured, published and argued over in journals for a decade or more. Dentistry never got the same…...

12+ hour, 49+ min ago   (555+ words) Healthcare technology company Streamwave has launched its Patient Check-in platform at Northwick Park Hospital’s Emergency Department, following an initial deployment at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. The cloud-based software allows emergency department patients to initiate their care registration and triage…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (745+ words) Here, Stablepharma chief executive Özgür Tuncer talks to Healthcare Today about vaccine wastage, why fridge-free vaccines are a game changer and how the technology will help health equity. Let’s start with the obvious question: how big is the vaccine-wastage problem…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (389+ words) With a new administration currently setting its national health priorities, now is the moment for change. Smoother, more streamlined routes to adoption are needed to get digital mental health solutions where they are needed and ensure the innovation poised to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (839+ words) Healthcare Today Ameera Patel, chief executive of TidalSense, writes that while cancer research gets £419 million a year, all of respiratory disease gets only £16 million. Respiratory disease has long been neglected by governments around the world. Conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (426+ words) A clinical trial platform co-led by a researcher at the University of Sheffield could accelerate the search for effective motor neuron disease (MND) treatments by identifying ineffective candidate drugs in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. Researchers…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (747+ words) Healthcare workers have never had access to more technology. Prescribing platforms, scheduling tools, patient records and internal messaging are all designed to make everyday tasks easier. But when healthcare employees spend more time switching between systems than using them, it…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (901+ words) The sector has the clinical capacity to respond. But growth on that scale puts pressure on everything around the consultation: finding the right clinician, booking an appointment, sharing records, receiving prescriptions and settling invoices without unnecessary friction. Each one of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (687+ words) Healthcare Today Eilert Hinrichs, partner at L.E.K. Consulting, writes that today’s dementia sufferers cannot wait for tomorrow’s medicine. The UK has just taken a genuinely important step in the fight against dementia. In July, the government, philanthropic foundations, and the pharmaceutical…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (397+ words) Racist abuse from patients towards radiographers has increased over the past 18 months, according to a new survey. Some patients refuse to be treated by non-white staff or don’t acknowledge the worker carrying out the vital task, according to the Society…...