Recently at HTN, we had the pleasure of speaking with Bruce Adams, the commercial director at Spirit Health, the company behind Clinitouch remote monitoring apps. Bruce talked to us about his role in delivering digital health solutions on a large scale, the subsequent challenges and learnings this journey brings, and how the NHS could evolve […]
NHS England has announced that patients will be offered a shortlist of at least five care providers to choose from through the NHS app, when they are referred by a GP. The move aims to provide patients with more choice and control over their own care, providing a patient with providers to choose from based on […]
The buzz these days in clinical research surrounds the term decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) which seems to promise it all for all stakeholders in the health ecosystem, from increasing patient participation in new trials to expanding the volume and the value of datapoints. But is the notion of such a remote approach more hype than […]
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (STHK) has partnered with BP3, who specialise in designing and delivering business process automation programmes. Implementing BP3’s automation process has seen the trust’s employment services automation programme set up with 139 bots handling 16 processes. Automation has been used for purposes such as speeding up emailing processes […]
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) just announced that they will build a $4.3 billion EV battery plant in the state of Georgia. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding in a signing ceremony today at LGES’s headquarters in Seoul. The two companies will 50/50 jointly open their new EV […]
For as long as I have been feeding myself—which, for the record, is several decades now—I have been feeding myself fast. I bite big, in rapid succession; my chews are hasty and few. In the time it takes others to get through a third of their meal, mine is already gone. You could reasonably call […]
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. All her life, Victoria Rutledge thought of herself as someone with an addictive personality. Her first addiction was alcohol. After she got sober in […]
In the dark, early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Michael Toce noticed a surprising trend. As a pediatric-emergency-medicine doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital, he was seeing lots of kids who had taken too much medication. The problem wasn’t that they’d overdosed on opioids or painkillers or marijuana. Instead, they’d swallowed too much melatonin, an over-the-counter […]
In 1856, an amateur chemist named William Henry Perkin mixed a batch of chemicals that he hoped, in vain, would yield the malaria drug quinine. When Perkin’s failed experiment turned purple, a hue so vivid that it could stain silks without fading, he realized he’d stumbled upon a different marvel of modernity: a commercially viable […]
Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET on May 17, 2023 In March, the World Health Organization issued a dire warning that was also completely obvious: Nearly everyone on the planet consumes too much salt. And not just a sprinkle too much; on average, people consume more than double what is advisable every single day, raising the […]
