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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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We take a look at BioSure, the award-winning startup which has created an innovative HIV self testing kit... An estimated 26,000 people in the UK have HIV without knowing it. Because it is a highly transmissible disease, this state of unawareness can lead to devastating effects. HIV is more manageable than ever these days, but it is not curable and late diagnosis can still have a huge impact on h...
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Early-stage startup aiPatient is aiming to offer affordable medical education using AI, with students and healthcare professionals interacting with digital, artificial intelligent patients.Patient interaction is at the core of healthcare education, as well as the continued education of qualified doctors and healthcare professionals. Outside of a hospital or clinic, however, the opportunity for thi...
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Zurich-based Ava, makers of the first fertility tracking sensor bracelet, closes a $30m Series B funding round and announces 10,000th “Ava” pregnancy. It's fair to say there has been a rise in the FemTech market over the last few years with the sector emerging as the likely next big disruptor in the global health care market. With fertility monitoring still not particularly tech ...
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Phlo - the innovative app which is providing a real-time NHS pharmacy delivery service, operating across the UK On the surface, it might not seem like a big thing, but waiting in line at the pharmacy for your prescription can become difficult to manage, especially when it comes to repeat prescriptions. It is easy to fall behind in keeping up with them, which then affects adherence to said medicat...
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Every year, the NHS spends close to £18 billion on medication. Anywhere up to half of the medication prescribed for long-term use is not taken as prescribed, however, with people forgetting to take it, putting off taking it, forgetting the correct dosage, or even running out and not getting around to picking up another prescription. This is, obviously, not an ideal state of affairs. Echo is...
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Startups with focus on either insurance, health & care experiences, or well being change, read on -  The Bupa Customer Lab is launching Blue Table, a 10-week programme that gives startups the opportunity to grow their business inside a global health and care company. Bupa’s newly established Customer Lab has this week launched its new Blue Table accelerator programme, inviting star...
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Belfast Startup, Locate a Locum is an online platform, connecting pharmacists with employers across the UK...The National Health Service has been a point of concern for a while, and it only grows more so as time goes on; the high cost of running such a vital system and the cuts it constantly receives do not exactly mesh. So a startup that can save the NHS £105 per temporary pharmacy staff me...
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Northern Ireland Startup Co-Founders Leeann Monk and Jennifer Neff of MedTech Startup Elemental are just back from Barcelona after attending last week's Mobile World Congress. Fresh off the plane we took this opportunity to catch up with both ladies to find out more about their digital health startup, their journey over the last 12 months and their experience of the Mobile World Congress itself. ...
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The Propel NI Company of the Year Award has been won by a very interesting technological innovation.   Neurovalens is a local medical device startup that has developed a potentially world changing weight loss technology.   ‘Stimu Slim’, is a unique electronic headset that could become a major player in the fight against the rise in global obesity rates.  It sounds ...
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