At Karviva, we used several Google Sheets to keep track of ingredients, materials, production and orders. As the business grew, keeping those records connected became harder. We needed to plan production more reliably and trace each batch from its ingredients through...
If you had to choose between food and toilet paper, what would you choose? A UK report from In Kind Direct and The Hygiene Bank found that 47% of people experiencing hygiene poverty had gone without toilet roll, making it the most common product people went without....
A self-assessment can identify symptoms, but the value of mental health screening depends on what people understand, choose and can access after seeing the result. A person completes an online mental health questionnaire and receives a score suggesting that...
For nearly half a century, one problem has raised more capital, had more publications, and experienced more failed product launches than almost any other in medical devices: noninvasive glucose monitoring, or measuring blood glucose without breaking the skin. More...
Artificial intelligence is making its way into nearly every stage of medical device development, including one of the most foundational activities: defining product requirements. With a well-structured prompt, AI-generated requirements, spanning user needs, software...
Anyone who has finished an emergency shift knows the chart stack. The department is still loud, the next team has the board, and a column of unsigned notes waits on the workstation. You read each one, fix what's wrong, and sign. That signature has always meant...
Anyone who has finished an emergency shift knows the chart stack. The department is still loud, the next team has the board, and a column of unsigned notes waits on the workstation. You read each one, fix what's wrong, and sign. That signature has always meant...
Standards and APIs can move information. True healthcare interoperability requires the governance, trust and workflow design that make the information usable. Healthcare has spent years treating interoperability as a problem of moving data. National exchange has...
As digital platforms make information increasingly accessible, the challenge is no longer simply how much we consume, but how our digital habits affect the way we process, retain, and use it. Scrolling through social media can expose us to hundreds of pieces of...
The UK and EU have reached a pivotal point in the regulation of AI in health. Both have set ambitious goals for protecting patients while enabling innovation, but success will depend on whether regulatory frameworks can be translated into responsible adoption and...
A child's vision is one of their most important developmental assets. Sight shapes how children learn, play, read, and connect with the world around them, and unlike many other aspects of health, vision loss caused by pediatric eye injuries can have consequences that...
Most clinical prediction tools get one big exam. Someone pulls a retrospective cohort, runs the numbers, shows a committee a curve, and the tool goes live. After that the exam rarely gets repeated, so model drift can go unnoticed. The emergency department keeps...
Why publish the data at all? My answer comes from my own work. We ran our study not with one AI agent but with several, and later it turned out that the numbers did not match. Without validated AI study data, data that the author answers for in front of the scientific...
Demand for weight-loss medicines in the UK has run well ahead of what the NHS can provide. Researchers at UCL estimate that 1.6 million adults in Great Britain used a medicine to lose weight between early 2024 and early 2025, and that a further 3.3 million were...
Women’s health innovation is experiencing a period of rapid growth. Founders are developing new diagnostics, medical devices, digital platforms, wearables and therapies for conditions that have historically received too little research attention and investment. That...
It's 3am. Thoughts are racing in circles, and there is no one to talk to: friends are asleep, the next appointment with a psychotherapist is weeks away, and not everyone can afford one. So a person either lies awake, scrolls endlessly through social media, or turns to...
Why closing the gap between clinical nutrition advice and the food labels in the supermarket aisle is a data problem before it is an education problem. Around 11 million deaths in 2017 were attributable to dietary risk factors, according to the Global Burden of...
The debate over prescription drug costs, in long-term care as elsewhere, often starts and ends with a number. How much did the medication cost before a negotiated price? How much will Medicare pay? What will the patient owe at the pharmacy counter? Those are important...