A six-month project involving the use of smart sensors at a retirement housing development in South Lanarkshire has demonstrated benefits for both tenants and housing providers.
It involved sensors being placed around communal spaces and…
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC) and digital health company Doccla have announced plans to launch “Scotland’s largest virtual hospital”.
The health board will use Doccla’s remote monitoring technology to establish 1,000 virtual ward…
Neuranics, a Scottish deep-tech semiconductor company, has secured $8 million in seed funding for its magnetic sensing technology.Blackfinch Ventures led the round, with participation from Archangels, Old College Capital, the University of Glasgow, Par…
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The da Vinci surgical system in use at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (Image provided by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde)
More than 10,000 patients across Scotland have benefitted from da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) since…
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Groundbreaking Research Initiative
The University of Edinburgh‘s NeurEYE research team, in collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian University, has achieved a remarkable milestone by collecting nearly one million eye scans from opticians across Scotland. This unprecedented dataset,…
Baljean Dhillon, professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of Edinburgh (Credit: andrewperry.co.uk)
Researchers are working with high street opticians to develop a digital tool that can predict a person’s risk of dementia from…
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has launched an app for parents of young children to bring together a host of health and wellbeing advice.Happy Healthy Tots, which is available through the Right Decisions app…
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Technology to allow faster diagnosis and assessment of skin conditions is being rolled out across primary care in Scotland, starting with Dumfries and Galloway and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Using a secure mobile phone app…
An immersive virtual tour of the neonatal intensive care unit at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow went live in July 2024 to help alleviate the anxiety parents feel when visiting their newborn.
The…
The Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow is trailing a wireless device which could help help diagnose respiratory and sleep conditions in babies and young children.
The early-stage study will monitor 75 infants from the…
