Your morning abstract of digital well being information, info and occasions to find out about if you wish to be “within the know”.
👇 Information
🏆 Suggestions Medical Restricted has introduced that it has received the Gold Award for Digital Answer for Rural Healthcare on the Built-in Well being and Wellbeing Council of India’s (IHW) Digital Well being Awards 2024 in New Delhi. Suggestions Medical was recognised on the awards for its Bleepa answer which helps a extra environment friendly, streamlined course of for figuring out sufferers that point out constructive outcomes for tuberculosis (TB) in rural and hard-to-reach areas. It has been working with the Evangelical Hospital Khariar in Odisha since 2022 to assist the hospital’s TB screening programme.
🤖 Intuitive Surgical CEO Gary Guthart disclosed plans for a fifth-generation da Vinci robotic on the corporate’s quarterly earnings name Tuesday, confirming hypothesis circulating amongst analysts. The robotic surgical procedure chief submitted a 510(okay) utility for da Vinci 5 to the Meals and Drug Administration in August, after finishing a multicenter investigational system exemption research, Guthart stated. The corporate is now responding to the FDA’s questions, which he known as consistent with “regular expectations for a submission of this sort.” When the robotic will launch relies on the time required to reply these questions, Guthart stated. “It’s our hope that it’s a ’24 launch,” he added. “However I can’t assure it.” The corporate plans a phased market introduction over the primary a number of quarters after gaining FDA clearance. Intuitive can also be in talks with regulators in Japan and Korea on commercializing da Vinci 5, in keeping with Guthart.
🧠 Smile App, the UK’s very first psychological well being app for these with long-term bodily well being circumstances, has simply launched and is now available to supply expert-led sensible assist and each day instruments to assist the emotional rollercoaster of dwelling with continual circumstances. Designed to assist a variety of circumstances, resembling diabetes, most cancers, bronchial asthma and lengthy covid, the app is now accessible on Android and IoS, with the goal to assist sufferers and carers who’re fighting the stress, overwhelm or ongoing fear of a tough prognosis. The app incorporates video and audio tracks from a variety of scientific consultants, dwell workshops, reflection instruments to assist folks’s wellbeing and even content material from folks with lived expertise of various circumstances. It additionally makes use of temper monitoring and each day check-ins to assist to know customers’ distinctive wants and create a personalised toolkit of content material, all tailor-made to the challenges folks on this group are going through.
📈 Visits to the NHS webpage on melanoma pores and skin most cancers noticed a rise in visits of 741% following the latest announcement from the Duchess of York. Sarah Ferguson made an announcement explaining that she has been identified with malignant melanoma, which is a type of pores and skin most cancers. Evaluation by NHS England, who runs the NHS web site, discovered that visits to the melanoma pores and skin most cancers info web page jumped to 1 go to each 13 seconds over the 2 days following the announcement. There have been a complete of 13,662 visits in 48 hours – greater than 8 occasions the quantity seen throughout the identical interval within the earlier week (1,624 visits). Final week, there was additionally a 1,061% enhance in visits to the prostate enlargement info web page following the information of the King’s well being situation, with 16,410 visits in simply 24 hours.
💉 Digital healthcare platform PrivateDoc has been named amongst a choose group of UK suppliers of Mounjaro – the load loss treatment that has launched within the UK at the moment. Mounjaro (tirzepatide), is a once-weekly non-insulin injection for adults, manufactured by Eli Lilly, that has been accessible as a prescription within the US since 2022. PrivateDoc, which has a heritage and track-record in offering clinically-proven weight reduction packages for these trying to start and maintain their weight reduction journeys, is including Mounjaro to its complete weight reduction packages that champions the accountable use of prescription treatment to enrich folks’s weight reduction journeys.
❓ Do you know that?
There are extra nurses and midwives working within the NHS than ever earlier than in keeping with new figures revealed final week. NHS England knowledge for October exhibits the variety of nurses working within the NHS in England is now at nearly 372,411 – the best recorded quantity ever, which means there over 20,000 extra within the NHS workforce going into this winter in contrast with final yr. The variety of midwives has grown by greater than 1,000 from final yr to 23,396 – the biggest variety of midwives ever.
📖 What we’re studying
Is Including an AI Readout to Mammography Price It? – Extra girls could also be getting a proposal so as to add an AI readout to their mammograms, however they’ll should pay for it out-of-pocket — and lots of are questioning if it will even lead to higher outcomes.
🚨 This week’s occasions
Monday 29 January, Home of Commons Well being and Social Care Committee – Future most cancers inquiry
Thursday 1 February, College of Oxford – Digital Care Hub, the Institute for Ethics in AI and Reuben School, Oxford, and Casson Consulting, co-host an AI roundtable occasion
