Digital Health

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Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, director of digital and CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust in the UK, says the workforce is embracing technology to improve patient outcomes in areas such as barcode medicine and sepsis.

The Virtual Technique Guides software "supports thousands of medical procedures" across 27 surgical specialties and subspecialties, and allows participants to collaborate on training regardless of their physical location.

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Gavin Matthews, UK business development director at SkinVision, discusses the use of smartphones to detect skin conditions.

It works to more easily connect patients to trials, decrease administrative tasks, improve trial resiliency and enhance studies through the use of data and technology.

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The tool is able to capture data from remote monitoring wearables and to link patients with virtual care providers.

The move follows an agreement that allows the company to provide its digital health services to one of the UK's Big Four retail banks.

The AI-driven companies will provide a plug and play solution that can obtain behavioural data and clinical observations for older individuals.