UK invests around £17 million in digital health innovations
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Dipl.-Kauffrau Heike Kielhorn-Schönermark
Founder and Managing Director
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The previous winners include Satalia, a company which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve organizational decision-making and allocation processes such as scheduling of operating rooms and bed availability in intensive care units.
Navenio is developing an "Uber” for hospital transports in cooperation with the University of Oxford. An interoperable smartphone application developed by Navenio will help to locate available porters and equipment more quickly and efficiently.
The development of individualized medication management could be further driven by financing of FabRx. The company from Ashford in Kent wants to revolutionize the production of drugs with the help of a new 3D printing process. In the future, the dosage of active agents in tablets could be tailored to individual patient needs and several compounds will be combined in a single pill.
Other innovative digital projects, that can be expected in the healthcare sector in the next few years, are waiting to be discovered at the Web Summit in Lisbon from 05 - 08 November 2018. Meet SKC and discuss with us new strategic challenges of market access for digital health applications on-site.
BY Heike Kielhorn-Schönermark, MBA, managing director and Beate Kasper, M.A. sociology
For further information please note the links below:
Gov.uk: Digital health technology catalyst round 3: collaborative R&D
Pharmaphorum: UK government gives millions to boost digital health innovation