In the aftermath of the cyberattack against US hospital group HCA, HBI talks to two cybersecurity providers to find out how worried operators, investors and patients should be.
When we talk about personalised medicine, we often hear about the therapy component, but less so about the service element of care. In an HBI 2023 panel entitled ‘This time it's personal: rethinking patient pathways’ speakers argued that's exactly where personalisation should be occurring.
“You wouldn’t manage your car by driving until it broke – so why would you manage yourself by waiting for pain and discomfort?” Ran Balicer asked at the HBI 2023 keynote ‘What is Possible Today?’. But while predictive medicine is common sense, there is still a fear of the machine.
The UK NHS was once globally revered, but cracks are showing as it marks seventy-five years and a question mark hangs over its future. HBI asks half a dozen experts what role for-profits have in its future - and whether it will it last another 75 years.
Tackling no-shows is a key part of better utilising NHS capacity. HBI speaks to Tom Whicher, founder of NHS-facing technology platform DrDoctor to find out how it can be done.
As the world faces a mental health crisis, a panel at HBI 2023 discussed the impact telehealth and digital therapeutics have on the sector. But with growing demand and a lack of capacity, to what extent can a crisis of global proportions be tackled?
When election seasons roll around, reforming social care is often allegedly at the top of party agendas, yet care systems across Europe remain chronically underfunded and under stress. In an HBI 2023 panel entitled ‘The homecare technology revolution’, three business founders shared how technology and their business models are disrupting the home care sector.
AI and big data are primed to improve clinical outcomes and standards for radiologists as well as the health care sector as a whole, but how far along the journey to automated care delivery are we? In an HBI 2023 panel discussion ‘AI and Big Data: Outcomes and Automation,’ panellists explored how automation could speed up diagnosis to treatment from 2 weeks to 15 minutes.
In the future health care will be much more consumer-centric, personalised and outpatient-heavy. Speakers on a panel at HBI 2023 entitled ‘The shape of things to come’ explained how digitisation, data and new types of medtech are already beginning to move things in this direction.
There is a unique opportunity in the primary care sector to build a more efficient, effective and prevention-oriented health care system. Panellists at HBI 2023’s ‘The evolution in primary care panel’, explained that many of the tools needed to do so already exist.
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