The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on many healthcare systems across the World. So, it was not at all surprising this was the answer when Dr. Arlen Meyers, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Society of Physician Entrepreneurs asked Dr. David H. Berger, CEO of University Hospi
Most health professionals, scientists, and engineers think they have good ideas but they do not necessarily know what to do with them. Even if they do, they may not realize the many considerations involved in the whole process of commercializing medical technology. Unfortunately, some of these skill
Ageing population, mounting chronic diseases, and unprecedented events like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are putting many healthcare systems at the verge of breaking. It has been forecasted that the global healthcare spending will go up at an annual rate of 5.4% between years 2017 and 2022, from $7
The emergency medicine doctor who went on to oversee the creation of the NHS AI lab talks digital healthcare, IT leadership and her father’s cool medical stories
Alexis May talks to Dr Jenny Davidson, Director of Governance at King Edward VII’s Hospital in London. Dr Davidson relates her experience of the UK lockdown and the related surge in healthcare innovation, the move towards a “different normal”, and the role of technology in supporting hospitals to re
The world has been in an apocalyptic shock from COVID-19 these past few weeks and months, and unless you are on a remote island by yourself, no one is entirely safe from its incredulous reach. Terms like social distancing, flattening the curve, and mitigation have now entered into our daily consciou
The first US patients have been dosed with an mRNAbased coronavirus vaccine in development at Pfizer and BioNTech, after testing got underway in Germany. The vaccine has been given to subjects at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and University of Maryland School of Medicine in the phase 1/2 trial
A key member of the team behind the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) database has called for data on health and disease to be shared universally in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic
BenevolentAI, a leader in the creation and application of AI and machine learning to transform the way medicines are developed, has announced that baricitinib, which it identified as a potential treatment for COVID-19, will be entering late stage clinical trials to treat the disease