Healthtech start-ups are using digital touchpoints to enhance customer experience, complete continuum of care – ET HealthWorld

Healthtech start-ups are using digital touchpoints to enhance customer experience, complete continuum of care – ET HealthWorld

Mumbai: Dr Pankaj Jethwani, Executive Vice President, W Health Ventures spoke to ETHealthworld’s Prabhat Prakash on the budding ecosystem of health Indian start-ups in comparison to the US market and why established healthcare stakeholders are investing in these upstart ventures. How can start-ups disrupt healthcare with established players and how does it benefit both? Pre-COVID, … Read more

New cutting-edge tech diagnoses heart failure in record time – ET HealthWorld

New cutting-edge tech diagnoses heart failure in record time – ET HealthWorld

London: Scientists have developed an innovative technology that can halve the time taken to detect patients with heart failure, and may be useful for improving diagnosis and delivering more effective treatments to patients. The technology developed by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, makes use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to develop … Read more

How CDSS tools are helping to overcome medical errors – ET HealthWorld

How CDSS tools are helping to overcome medical errors – ET HealthWorld

By Devidas BhaleraoThe Healthcare community is a trusted fraternity, and this calls them to take extra caution while taking out a treatment regime. The slightest error can cause a life to the patient, hence out of all the parameters during patient care, medical errors stand out in terms of preventable occurrence. A medical error essentially … Read more

Can the NHS learn from Germany’s health system?

Can the NHS learn from Germany’s health system?

Nigel Edwards, chief executive of Nuffield Trust, is sceptical: “Social health insurance is not a magic ingredient. A move to that kind of model, even if possible, would require additional resources. The NHS could not magic up the additional beds, staff and equipment to create the market needed to make social insurance work – these … Read more

Modified Purple Tomato May Be Coming to Your Grocery Store

Modified Purple Tomato May Be Coming to Your Grocery Store

Sept. 23, 2022 — No matter how you slice it, a genetically engineered purple tomato just got one step closer to showing up in U.S. grocery stores. The U.K. company developing the new purple fruit has passed a first test with U.S. regulators, demonstrating that genetic changes to the tomatoes do not expose the plants … Read more

Emerging technologies ushering life sciences industry into the metaverse: Accenture Report – ET HealthWorld

Emerging technologies ushering life sciences industry into the metaverse: Accenture Report – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Accenture’s Life Sciences Technology Vision 2022 report explores the technology trends that will transform how biopharmaceutical and medical technology companies solve manufacturing and device problems, improve equity in clinical trial participation and build more resilient supply chains to provide patients and healthcare professionals with more personalised experiences. According to the report, life sciences … Read more

Researchers develop artificial intelligence screening techniques to speed up drug discovery – ET HealthWorld

Researchers develop artificial intelligence screening techniques to speed up drug discovery – ET HealthWorld

Orlando: Developing life-saving drugs can cost billions of dollars and take decades, but researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based drug screening technique by using that they hope to shorten the process. Using a method that models drug and target protein interactions using natural language processing techniques, the researchers achieved up to 97% accuracy in … Read more