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The lowdown on the investment secured by the Belfast based healthcare startup The Belfast based tech startup, Locate a Locum, which helps locum healthcare professionals find flexible work opportunities, has just announced that it has secured £1m in equity funding. The money raised will be used to grow and scale the business. At present, the business uses its on-demand technology platform to...
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Technology has transformed how people interact. We are on the cusp of an exciting new era in clinical communication, and a key shift in the empowerment of patients as a stakeholder in healthcare. "As Tim Cook (Apple) stated recently, the Healthcare market’s potential could dwarf the smartphone market, which currently accounts for some 65% of Apple’s total revenue, and the statistics t...
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Vodafone are currently looking to identify 100 pioneering startups from across the globe, to utilise and profit from the new capabilities of 5G. If you are a startup with a market deployed solution or prototype, that can benefit from the use of 5G, this might be the challenge for you!  From media, entertainment & gaming, automotive, Industry 4.0 (ie. automation and data exchange in manuf...
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Patient data made real! axial3D - The award winning startup that is leading the way in medical 3D printing for medical applications... Medical 3D printing transforms how surgical consultants prepare and plan for surgical intervention and how they communicate details about abnormalities and treatment options to the patient and to their colleagues. By delivering improved efficiency, advancing ...
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Innovation in healthcare thanks to Cambridge based startup OKRA Technologies who are using AI analytics for healthcare... We have written previously about healthcare startups - such as TrackActive and Ping An Good Doctor - that are using artificial intelligence to improve healthcare education, enable patients to get diagnoses quicker, relieve pain, and much more. Artificial intelligence allo...
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TrackActive, a London-based healthcare & InsurTech company, launches its AI-powered 'physio in your pocket' app that aims to change the way people seek help for pain in their joints, necks and backs. Of all health conditions in the UK, musculoskeletal conditions are the leading cause of people living for years with disability. It also has strong links to mental health – people in persis...
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The Shanghai based healthcare innovation - unmanned, AI-driven ‘one-minute clinics’ providing medical services, including diagnosis and medicine prescriptions. A 2018 study found that the UK has the fewest doctors in the EU, at 2.8 per 1,000 people. In comparison, Austria has 5.1 and Australia has 3.4 per 1,000 people. While these numbers are hard to take meaning from on their own, it...
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The Virti simulation platform puts users in a range of realistic simulations designed by healthcare professionals, testing their decision-making ability and knowledge.  Virtual reality is going to be a big part of the future and a big part of training students, new employees, teaching new skills to existing employees, and so on. The research tells us that VR not only reduces training costs b...
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Think Biosolution - The health tech startup that has healthcare innovation at its core... A watch that tracks your steps is all well and good, until you sneeze and it thinks you’ve run half a mile. Wearable tech for sport and fitness is a great idea in theory, but many products don’t quite deliver. Some are little more than gimmicks to help you feel like you’ve been healthy when...
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Florence - a marketplace for nurses to find shifts in hospitals and nursing homes and vice-versa, empowers care homes and nurses to connect via an online platform that dramatically reduces the cost of recruitment for the homes whilst helping nurses book higher paying shifts online. Pain Point - The UK healthcare system is endemically short of staff and often reliant on recruitment agencies t...
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