HealthTech Roundup! #007

This year’s HLTH conference made waves in digital health, with key topics on how technology can improve healthcare through increased access, efficiency and collaboration. There have also been cool developments across start-ups, government and healthcare innovation – grab a spiced 🎃 latte and let’s unwrap some tech treats 🍬:

First up, some news bites 🥪:

• The Top 10’s in healthtech and digital solutions pioneers are in: check out the most innovative wearables and technologically advanced hospitals. Read it with: the Top 100 Healthtech Companies of 2023.

• No hocus-pocus, just a lot of focus: Researchers at the University College London created an e-Tongue to predict how medicines taste with the aim to improve medication adherence.

• Phillips launched Visual Patient Avatars to simplify complex clinical data and vital signs, enabling clinicians to make timely decisions without losing cognitive focus.

• Amazon Pharmacy launched their prescription medicines drone delivery service this month, bypassing terrain and traffic in USA. More lift-offs are planned in UK and Italy next year.

• Microsoft have committed a $5B investment in Aussie data centres which will accelerate the AI boom in healthcare whilst also keeping patient records safe with cybersecurity infrastructure. Read it with: Microsoft unveiled advanced healthcare AI capability which can consolidate data from disparate sources such as EMRs, wearables, medical devices, pathology and radiology at unparalleled speed.

Now, let’s take a look at the innovation space🚀:

• Western Australia’s Future Health Research and Innovation Fund has awarded grants for 19 projects and tasked innovators to look at generative AI for ways to improve healthcare delivery.

• You can already buy 3D-printed houses, cars, rocket engines and sneakers; but can Vital3D interest you in a 3D-printed organ? This Lithuanian start-up believes the tech can bridge the gap between affordable organ demand and supply.

• Milbotix’s SmartSocks can monitor heart rate, sweat levels, and mobility. Regrettably, their superpowers don’t extend to finding lost socks just yet 🧦; nevertheless, they are set to equip caregivers and providers with real-time alerts for proactive intervention.

• And yet another way healthtech might soon find itself in everyday life: earbuds that can scan brain health and recommend music based on your mood. Yep, it’s a reality with Niura’s FDA-approved medical grade all-in-one tech.

Finally, leaving you with a spooky, futurist tidbit 👻:

• From hospitals, pharmacies, and patient digital twins in the Metaverse to… digital immortality. A fascinating read on the rise of the digital afterlife industry.