Online prescribing has moved from being a relatively niche part of healthcare to an increasingly established route through which patients access treatment. That change brings clear benefits. Patients can seek treatment discreetly, access clinicians without travelling,...
For property owners, management companies, and business leaders, few sights are more unwelcome than an empty office building. Indoor air quality may be part of the answer to filling it. In the post-pandemic era, the home office has replaced the traditional workplace...
Transfusion medicine plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by ensuring the availability of safe and compatible blood products for patients in need. Recognized globally as an essential medicine, blood remains the cornerstone of the healthcare workflow. Every few...
The most resilient health systems are not the ones that respond best in times of disruption, they’re the ones designed so that when disruption occurs, care continues and communities remain protected. Systems continue to struggle with workforce shortages, delayed care,...
A correct dimension does not guarantee a safe device Metal device quality control should translate clinical and engineering risks into measurable attributes. A machined component can match its drawing, look clean and pass inspection while still carrying a material,...
Healthcare innovation is often associated with something new. A new technology. A new platform. A new device. A new digital service. But healthcare organizations do not always need to add something new to improve care. Sometimes, they need to change something that is...
Clinical decision support is not new, and it does not have to be complex to work. If anything, the simpler it is, the more likely clinicians are to use it. The best-known earlier example is the WHO surgical safety checklist, developed by a team led by Atul Gawande,...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare, moving beyond research laboratories into hospitals, clinics, and public health systems worldwide. Today, AI supports clinicians in areas such as medical imaging, clinical documentation, decision support,...
The life sciences sector is in the midst of a digital transformation that most security teams were not built to handle. AI-driven drug discovery platforms, cloud-connected lab equipment, genomic databases, and real-time patient data pipelines are creating attack...
For several years, AI has been viewed as one of the biggest opportunities for the medtech sector. With an industry survey finding that 91% of leaders were enthusiastic about its potential, early conversations centred on how it could transform healthcare delivery and...
It’s impossible to escape the topic of AI right now. AI hype in life sciences now dominates every boardroom, industry conference, pitch deck and earnings call. But we’ve seen this movie before. A decade ago, the topic was the cloud, and it, too, was everywhere -...
Two years into the biopharma industry's most sustained experiment with artificial intelligence, the honest answer to "what has changed" is not the one most conference keynotes suggest. It is not that biopharma AI now runs the laboratory. It is that AI has become very...
Cardiovascular disease in Australia claims one life every 12 minutes. The irreversible damage to the heart is known as heart failure, a condition that progressively prevents the heart from providing the proper amount of blood to our body. This means that patients will...
Essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile phytochemicals that have long been incorporated into traditional medicine, personal care products, aromatherapy, and topical therapeutic formulations. Their diverse biological activities—including antimicrobial,...
An entrepreneur whose father died before care at home could be arranged has built a digital platform that is transforming how families find care across the UK. After experiencing first-hand how difficult it was to arrange support for his own father, Pairly co-founder...
A family looking for home care may describe its situation in a few sentences. “My mother has dementia. She lives alone and needs someone there at night. She can still dress herself but sometimes forgets to eat. We need help soon.” A caregiver may describe her...
Across healthcare, financial pressure is forcing difficult decisions. Pharmacy teams are being asked to do more with less. Service expansion, dealing with NHS patients, workforce shortages remain acute, and every investment is being scrutinised. In this environment,...
As healthcare and life sciences organizations confront workforce shortages, regulatory pressures, rapid technological change, and increasing operational complexity, building a pipeline of extraordinary leaders has never been more important. Many of these organizations...