Your morning abstract of digital well being information, data and occasions to learn about if you wish to be “within the know”.
👇 Information
💷 Innovate UK is working with West Yorkshire Mixed Authority to offer focused help and a share of as much as £500,000 for initiatives that may develop innovation actions within the well being applied sciences cluster in West Yorkshire. The funding competitors opened on 10 June, and closes at 11am on 17 July 2024.
📲 The introduction of the Minuteful for Wound app, at Swansea Bay College Well being Board has gained the Chief Nursing Officer’s Sustainability in Nursing and Midwifery award on the Welsh Sustainability Awards 2024. In response to a 14 June press launch, the app supported the crew to go paper-free and digitise affected person information, assessments and care plans.
👩👦 South Tyneside, Northumberland, County Durham, Cumberland, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Hartlepool, North Tyneside, Gateshead and Darlington councils are rolling out a digital platform to help unpaid carers. In response to the UK Authority web site on 17 June, the Mobilise platform has a two-year settlement with the councils.
⌚ Analysis revealed within the journal njp Parkinson’s Illness on 12 June, has confirmed that smartwatches might assist researchers higher beneath Parkinson’s illness and different progressive neurological problems by detecting adjustments in signs over time in people with the situation.
🩺 Samsung is exploring new digital well being teaching options, as a part of its efforts to embed AI know-how into its most essential merchandise, in line with an article revealed in CNET. The brand new options are primarily based on giant language fashions that may interpret a consumer’s well being knowledge and provide insights.
📖 What we’re studying
In response to Graphite Digital’s Disconnected Pharma: navigating digital challenges and priorities in 2024 report, 36% of senior leaders agree that funding is the largest barrier to digital adoption and transformation.
The report underscores the necessity for elevated connection throughout pharma.
Do you know
❓ The TELUS Psychological Well being Index, which polled employees within the UK, America, Canada, Europe, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia on their psychological well being, has discovered that fifty% of UK employees imagine AI can have a optimistic affect on healthcare.
🚨 This week’s occasions
17-20 June, Amsterdam – HLTH Europe 2024
