Welcome to the one centesimal version of Digital Well being Espresso Time Briefing, revealed each weekday morning. Right here’s to the following 100!
Your morning abstract of digital well being information, info and occasions to learn about if you wish to be “within the know”.
👇 Information
💷 Small and medium sized companies innovating throughout the healthcare expertise sector are being invited to entry as much as £35,000 of professional business, technical and tutorial help to scale or get their initiatives to market, following the launch of a brand new life sciences programme. Purposes have opened for the ‘Healthcare Applied sciences Functionality Connector’ (HTCC) Accelerator, a life sciences partnership led by the College of Hertfordshire in collaboration with Imperial Faculty London and Cranfield College.
🤔 Clinigen, the worldwide pharmaceutical companies firm, right now launched a brand new marketing campaign known as ‘What’s Potential?’ to assist empower sufferers and medical professionals to ask what extra is feasible within the remedy of uncommon illnesses. There are over 7,000 uncommon illnesses impacting over 300 million individuals globally, and but solely 5% have a licensed remedy. The marketing campaign, full with a newly launched webpage, goals to help and educate each sufferers and clinicians about potential routes and options for uncommon illness remedy, by its Early Entry Applications.
🧑💻 Right now, DeepHealth, one of many main suppliers of radiology informatics and AI options, and Incepto, Europe’s main platform for AI options utilized to medical imaging, introduced they’re partnering to ship expanded entry to DeepHealth medical AI and radiology informatics software program. The announcement passed off on the European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2024) in Vienna, Austria. Radiologists throughout Europe will be capable to entry DeepHealth OS, a cloud-native working system that orchestrates medical and operational workflows, and AI applied sciences, by Incepto. Incepto-curated AI options will likely be deeply built-in into the upcoming DeepHealth OS. The goal is to supply entry to a wider AI-powered portfolio with built-in AI medical options and workflow instruments to deal with a number of challenges confronted by radiologists and employees.
🧫 The microbiome can establish those that profit from mixture immunotherapy throughout a number of totally different cancers, together with uncommon gynaecological cancers, biliary tract cancers and melanoma. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Olivia Newton-John Most cancers Analysis Institute in Australia, and collaborators, have recognized particular strains of micro organism which can be linked with a constructive response to mixture immunotherapy within the largest examine of its variety. The examine, revealed Friday in Nature Drugs, particulars a signature assortment of microorganisms in a person’s intestine micro organism which will assist establish those that would profit from mixture immunotherapy and assist clarify why the efficacy of this remedy is in any other case onerous to foretell.
🦷 Award-winning digital dentist Toothfairy has partnered with main worker advantages supplier Unum UK as a part of a boosted dental providing. To raised help its prospects’ oral well being through the present dental care disaster, from 1st Might Unum is introducing Toothfairy to all new and renewing Unum Dental shoppers. The straightforward-to-use bespoke Toothfairy app gives insured workers with a single entry level to high-quality dentistry companies, help and steerage for on a regular basis preventative dental care and routine remedy, plus Unum’s wider companies. The combination of the Toothfairy app into the Unum Dental providing is an unique association throughout the dental insurance coverage market. Providers embrace: limitless use of a 1-2-1 chat helpline, with certified dentists; digital examination and real-time dental symptom checker; and video consultations.
❓ Do you know that
Greater than a billion individuals are affected by weight problems, which is now the commonest type of malnutrition in many of the world, a examine revealed within the Lancet has discovered. Whereas the proportion of kids which can be underweight has fallen by a fifth in ladies and a 3rd in boys prior to now three a long time, weight problems in youngsters and adolescents was 4 occasions increased in 2022 than it was in 1990. For adults, weight problems charges greater than doubled in that interval, the overview by greater than 1,500 researchers discovered
📖 What we’re studying
In a current working paper, the Enchancment Analytics Unit, a partnership between the Well being Basis and NHS England, analyses combination nationwide knowledge on digital wards to explain what digital wards at the moment appear like throughout England and talk about the results of digital wards on sufferers, employees and hospital capability, in addition to the gaps within the proof.
🚨 This week’s occasions
5 March, Coverage discussion board on-line – Subsequent steps for establishing a Nationwide Care service for Wales
