Health tech priorities for 2024

  • January 5, 2024
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With a new year upon us, we’ve been asking health tech leaders to look to the year ahead and share their perspectives on digital priorities for 2024. Read more from Highland Marketing’s market leading clients  We’ve been looking ahead to 2024 and asking health tech leaders what they expect to see in health tech this year. […]

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F.D.A. Issues First Approval for Mass Drug Imports to States From Canada

  • January 5, 2024
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The Food and Drug Administration has allowed Florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the United States, overriding fierce decades-long objections from the pharmaceutical industry. The approval, issued in a letter to Florida Friday, is a major policy shift for the United States, and supporters […]

Millions more receiving GP appointments while others ‘left suffering in pain’

  • January 5, 2024
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Four million more GP appointments a month are being delivered for patients compared to the same month before the pandemic, new GP practices are required to offer face to face appointments as well as telephone and online consultations, with some patients choosing remote appointments where it is clinically appropriate. The new data shows that almost […]

US faces ‘tragic’ rise in syphilis cases with life-saving drug in short supply

  • January 5, 2024
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A poster of pregnancy in an examination room at Marys Center in Washington DC. Syphilis, including congenital syphilis, is on the rise. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images A poster of pregnancy in an examination room at Marys Center in Washington DC. Syphilis, including congenital syphilis, is on the rise. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images US […]

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Listen: How AI is revolutionising reproductive medicine

  • January 5, 2024
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The Health Tech World Podcast returns with more insights from the frontiers of health. For our first podcast of the year presented in partnership with Femtech World, we meet the team behind IVF 2.0, a biotech firm harnessing AI to advance reproductive medicine. Listen now on Spotify or your chosen podcast platform. Want to share […]

Tesla Model Y range estimate reduced by 6%, becoming more realistic

  • January 5, 2024
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Tesla has updated its Model Y EPA range estimates, lowering the range of its Long Range and Performance models by 6% in its online configurator. Specifically, the Model Y Long Range is down to 310 miles from 330, and the Model Y Performance is down to 285 miles from 303. The cheapest Model Y, the […]

Why healthcare providers need to embrace technology to support nurses

  • January 5, 2024
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In a healthcare landscape marked by mounting nursing workloads and persistent workforce shortages, the industry finds itself locked in an unrelenting battle to overcome these challenges.  This urgent need for transformation in the healthcare sector has become increasingly apparent, with the NHS facing alarming staff shortages. This comes as Intelligent indoor location technology can track […]

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Cambridge University Hospital launches learning platform uPerform to support staff training – htn

  • January 5, 2024
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Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust has announced the roll-out of uPerform, an innovative learning platform for its electronic patient record system, Epic®. The trust selected uPerform to support the onboarding and ongoing training experience for caregivers, ensuring its hospital staff – Epic users – have the resources needed to utilise the system to its […]

Tesla adds two new Model Y colors – Stealth Grey and Ultra Red

  • January 5, 2024
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Tesla has updated its US Model Y configurator, adding the Ultra Red and Stealth Grey colors to the Model Y, which had previously only been available on the Model S and X. Tesla doesn’t change its color palette all that often, but last year it added two new colors to the Model S and X […]