While MedTech, digitization, and remote working have sucked up the entirety of the technological limelight during the highs and lows of the COVID-19 pandemic, a sleeping giant has also been growing in the background. That sleeping giant: contactless technologies. We have used forms of the technology in a plethora of ways, to ordering food and […]
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It is without a shadow of a doubt that telemedicine was the champion of the health technology sector during the pandemic, allowing patients the ability to receive consultations and treatments by their doctors without the need for in-person appointments. The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a tidal wave of technological acceleration across all forms of […]
A report from ORCHA (The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps), an NHS partner and a leading authority on health app trends and usage, says that MedTech digital tools can be part of the solution to the backlog in cancer services. The report adds that patients must be supported by healthcare staff […]
In a MedTech first for the Mediterranean country of Lebanon, a team from the American University of Beirut (AUB) has established a biotech corporation in the U.S. devoted research on biomarkers for cardiovascular disease. The school told Inside Telecom that team physicians and scientists from AUB have founded the first US-based biotech S-Corporation, Teucer Biotech […]
Dubai’s healthcare regulator announced earlier this week that it will be working on enhancing its MedTech capabilities, emphasizing AI-powered remote patient monitoring. The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is currently collaborating with homegrown startup Enpy – which specializes in medical artificial intelligence (AI) – to use its AI-powered device for remote patient monitoring. According to the […]
As the COVID-19 global pandemic has put an emphasis onto the digital health sector, investments are continuously pouring in to further grow the bridge between technology and medicine; and Big Tech are starting to notice. Search engine giant Google is looking to get part of the action, by partnering up with U.S.-based medical technology company […]
The U.S. Health and Human Services agency recently released a comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to increase use of this advanced technology in MedTech and related types of applications. “Together with its partners in academia, industry and government, HHS will leverage AI to solve previously unsolvable problems by continuing to lead advances in the health […]
The current pandemic has affected all types of businesses and industries and has brought forward new technologies and innovations. What will the future of travel look like post COVID-19? We break down some of the most prominent technologies in travel tech that are here to stay post COVID-19. People will want to travel again – […]
The pandemic has profoundly shifted the way we live our lives and the way we look to the future. It has also dramatically changed what we discuss, what we want to know, and what we choose to write about. An analysis by the Boston Consulting Group has revealed major shifts in tech-related topics during covid-19. […]
Early Coronavirus detection, if applied on mass, would significantly decrease transmission rates of the virus. The virus is most contagious before symptoms even show, and in the first week of contraction according to a German study, and the CDC, as 40% of all transmissions occur before clear symptoms are shown if any. Thus, a preemptive […]