CARESYNTAX SECURES €83M FOR AI HOSPITAL
Berlin-based healthtech company Caresyntax has raised €82.8 million ($100 m) in a Series C round. The investment was led by PFM Health Sciences LP, Optum Ventures, Intel Capital and Lauxera Capital Partners and is one of the largest rounds secured by a German healthtech company.
The company uses AI to digitise operation rooms by developing algorithms that analyse risk factors during surgery and recognizes critical situations, such as a drop in heart rate.
The technology works by tracking the surgeon and feeding them real-time information and picks up on early warning signs that doctors might not be aware of, in order to mitigate against human error.
Dr Tom Micklewright explains how health apps can benefit people with long-term conditions and how GPs can establish which apps they could recommend or 'prescribe' to patients.
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by Charlie Spargo
Sci-Tech Daresbury-based ORCHA - the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps - has revealed its analysis of healthcare apps for a number of NHS trusts.
According to the BBC, ORCHA has reviewed around 5,000 apps which are categorised as health, fitness and medical on app stores, and found that the majority do not meet NHS standards, with concerns mainly arising around poor information, lack of security updates and insufficient awareness of regulations.
In fact, 80% are not meeting the correct standards as laid down by the health service, with a total of 370,000 individual health apps available on the market right now.
Digital support
Research published today shows how digital providers are coming together to support the mental health needs of millions of users unable to access traditional services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the first time ever, digital providers and experts from over 20 countries have gathered a staggering number of insights about mental health during the pandemic from potentially upwards of 50 million users worldwide.
The study, published in
Frontiers in Digital Health and led by Dr Becky Inkster from the University of Cambridge, included a range of digital services, such as patient-to-clinician platforms, digitally-enabled treatments, mental health and wellbeing apps, chatbots and social support networks. It also included insights from financial services providers, and other digital sources, such as the dark web and dark net markets.