A digital wayfinding solution used in Portuguese health institutions is being trialled at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
The BuzzStreets indoor navigation app is also due to be rolled out at West Middlesex University Hospital, which is part of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
As well as providing directions to help patients navigate to locations inside a hospital...
Students over the age of 12 returning to school or university in Saudi Arabia this week are required to show proof of vaccination via the Kingdom’s COVID-19 tracing application, it has been announced.
According to the country’s Ministry of Education, students will only be granted access to school premises subject to being fully immunised against SARS-CoV-2. Vaccination status is available through...
UK-based app Pando has come under scrutiny for a security breach which saw NHS patients’ photos automatically uploaded onto users’ smartphones.
The clinical communication tool, which has been approved under the NHS Clinical Communication Procurement Framework, is used to send messages, test results, X-Rays and photographs between care teams. It is reportedly used by more than 60,000 NHS staff...
Osler Technology, an Australian developer of online healthcare portfolios and learning applications, has unveiled a new education platform for healthcare professionals.
WHAT IT DOES
The My Osler app provides resources to aid in learning, such as modules, podcasts, quizzes, articles, procedures and scenarios. It is designed for students and healthcare professionals in acute care.
Through paid...
Siilo, the secure collaboration app for healthcare workers, has announced a raise of €9.5 milliion in Series A funding.
European digital health VC Heal Capital is at the forefront of the investment, backed by Germany’s private health insurers. Also participating in the round are Philips Health Technology Venture Fund and current investor EQT Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2016 by former...
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS trust, in the UK, has reduced unnecessary referrals to A&E by up to 83% since installing Cinapsis, a digital triage platform that could help UK hospitals tackle the consultation backlog that has built up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cinapsis allows GPs to ‘beam in’ consultants via an app, maintaining specialist support while reducing the need for hospital visits...
Cognitant Group has launched Healthinote, an app that provides patients with up-to-date, verified healthcare information to help them understand their conditions and treatment options better, and counters the potential impact of "fake news" on their decisions and outcomes.
With a search facility, a favourite page for users to save personalised information and a share function, the app also uses...
A new app being developed by NHSX in collaboration with Google and Apple is hoped to be the key to relaxing lockdown measures in the coming weeks and months. The app will utilise Bluetooth technology to inform users if they have been in contact with someone who has a confirmed case of the virus. This could ease restrictions on social isolation, since users will have more information about the...
German startup secures funding. Berlin-based digital health startup mika has landed a seven-figure financing deal from venture capital firm Ananda Impact Ventures and VC Fonds Technologie Berlin, managed by the IBB investment company. The exact sum was not disclosed to the media.
The startup, founded in 2017 by Dr Gandolf Finke and Dr Jan Simon Raue, has developed an app to support cancer...
Malmö-based medical device startup Flow has landed $1.5m (approximately €1.35m) in funding in a round led by Khosla Ventures, it was announced this week. The new funds will be used to support the European rollout of Flow's brain stimulation headset and therapy app, developed to treat depression, which were launched in the UK and Sweden earlier this year.
“The Khosla Ventures investment will...
