Welcome to your daily dose of digital health news, information, and events to keep you in the loop.
👇 News
🤝 GigXR, Inc., in partnership with CAE Healthcare, is enhancing clinical simulation with extended reality solutions for healthcare training. This collaboration streamlines multimodal simulation implementation and management for various medical and healthcare facilities.
💡 The CivTech Round 9 Accelerator has selected innovative technologies for menopause symptom management in the workplace, satellite monitoring for disease control in trees, and drone and thermal imaging systems for deer population management, among other solutions, to address environmental, healthcare, economic, and cyber-crime challenges.
💰 RDS, a medical device start-up, secured €1 million investment from MACSF (Mutuelle d’Assurance du Corps de Santé Français) for its Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) solution, MultiSense. The funding will support the commercial launch of MultiSense in Europe and the US, and the development of innovative products and clinical trials.
💊 Research on myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) has revealed the interplay between cancer-driving genetic mutations and inherited genetic variants, potentially aiding drug development and interventions to reduce the risk of the disease.
📱 The Breathing App for Diabetes has been launched, offering slow breathing practices to manage stress associated with diabetes, benefiting millions of individuals living with this condition.
❓ Did you know that?
New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal a significant increase in the number of centenarians in England and Wales, with a growing number of men reaching 100 or more, impacting the gender ratio among centenarians.
📖 What we’re reading
Forbes – Monitoring People’s Health Was A Notable Theme At CES 2024
🚨 This week’s events
18 January 10:30am-12.30pm, techUK – Crown Commercial Service Digital Capability for Health 2 Supplier Engagement Event
