Mayden and SilverCloud Health partner to provide online mental health platform
People seeking support for their mental health can now receive instant digital therapy support, following a collaboration between digital care record supplier Mayden and online cognitive behavioural therapy solutions provider SilverCloud Health.
The ‘Direct to Digital’ approach is being rolled-out at mental health...
PhagoMed (now known as BioNTech after buyout), is developing novel synthetic lysin technology for precision antimicrobial treatments.
The Vienna-based biotech company uses lysins, which are enzymes produced by bacteriophages that break down bacterial cell walls and kill bacteria.
PhagoMed’s Lysin Builder platform allows for the development of synthetic lysins that create targeted antibacterials...
CERA PLEDGES TO TRAIN 500 REFUGEES FROM AFGHANISTAN
UK tech home care provider, Cera has pledged to train up and employ 500 refugees from Afghanistan as carers.
The startup will work with 160 local councils and the government to recruit, train and employ refugees who come to the UK amid the crisis.
The home care provider uses technology to deploy services such as social care, nursing and repeat...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already being used in advanced medical settings and it has multiple applications including, wearable technology, precision medicine and virtual clinics. In some cases, it can even interpret test results more accurately than physicians. While most of us are just beginning to realise the full potential of AI, some entrepreneurs are way ahead. But how can they build...
Janssen, Johnson & Johnson’s pharma subsidiary, is looking to the digital health startup space for new ideas on predictive diagnostics and precision treatment. The company has launched a new nine-month startup accelerator focused on the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Startups will have until Sept 27 to apply to the accelerator and must focus their pitch around ways to improve...
Forty-one startups have been selected to participate in the H+ Digital Health Innovation Programme which starts on 16 September 2020.
The programme is jointly organised by the InsurTech Hub Munich and the dmac/Digital Health Hub Nuremberg/Erlangen.
During the "Business Development Weeks" the main focus will be on establishing business relationships and developing their own business model.
There...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health Wild Card programme will bring together 45 participants to find solutions in areas of high unmet need within women’s health and digital therapeutics. The annual hackathon goes online in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and will run from 1– 10 July.
Beginning with two challenges set by EIT Health, the annual Wild Card programme...
A report from EIT Health and McKinsey & Company has called for a generation of data literate healthcare professionals to be educated and trained in order to realise the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe.
Researchers carried out 62 interviews with public and private sector decision-makers and thought leaders across Europe, North America and Asia between...
EIT Health. EU-backed healthcare collaboration network EIT Health announced in December that it awarded nearly €6 million in funding to startups working to improve the diagnosis and treatment of conditions including heart disease and Parkinson’s. Over 100 early stage companies and SMEs from 14 countries in Europe received a grant last year to further their growth through the EIT Health Headstart...
This year EIT Health, an EU-backed healthcare collaboration network, announced that its 2020 Wild Card Health Challenge will be focused on women’s health and digital therapeutics.
First launched in 2017, the program offers European companies a way to connect with various healthcare stakeholders. The winner of each of the categories will receive €2 ($2.22) million in funding.
Companies...
