Scotland has a new Digital Health and Social Care Strategy that sets out how technology can support person-centred care, and sustain and improve services for the future. It highlights progress and challenges to date, and sets out to maximise the opportunities of digital technology to help improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for people in Scotland. Read the strategy here. The new strategy has been...
£1.9m funding to Canon Medical for Research & Development Project. Children with congenital heart defects are amongst those set to benefit from new technology designed to improve diagnoses and treatment planning thanks to investment announced by Economy Secretary Keith Brown. Scottish Enterprise has awarded Edinburgh based Canon Medical’s European Research and Development Centre £1.9m towards developing its new £6.6m life sciences software. The technology will...
Professor George Crooks, chief executive of the Digital Health Institute Scotland (DHI), said: “We’re building a simulation environment here in Glasgow that will have an architecture that allows data to flow from any device you may have, through an exchange layer into back-end government systems and databases in a trusted and seamless way. “The data is presented to your doctor, social carer, yourself, or family...
MindMate is a dementia app developed by graduates of the University of Glasgow and Strathclyde University and includes games, workouts, recipes, vintage TV and music and problem-solving activities to stimulate cognitive abilities and keep users active. The company raised the funding from Connecticut-based LaunchCapital, San Francisco-based Telegraph Hill Capital, Mucker Capital and Luma Launch in Santa Monica, Los Angeles-based PLG Ventures, and London-based Potential VC. Users – predominantly Alzheimer’s sufferers – can access information about the latest...
Researchers at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing have been awarded £1m to enhance mental health data cohorts through linkage to health, education and administrative datasets. The UK-wide grants total £10m and are awarded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to help researchers harness the power of data science for mental health research. Scotland is world-leading in the use of routine health data and record...
From early 2019, NHS Highland, NHS Grampian, NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland will be able to share information across primary, secondary and social care systems via on online platform provided by Orion Health. The project will allow healthcare providers in the north of Scotland view data on patients throughout the region, with the view of providing better joined-up care to people living in the country’s...