health tech
Signal: Medtech’s Covid boom is well and truly over as Avail, Olive shutter
The Covid-19 pandemic was a hard time for many industries, but not medtech. Digital health funding alone hit $29.3bn in…
Signal: Wave of layoffs in medical start-ups exposes underlying vulnerability
On 7 August, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital health company Babylon Health announced it was shuttering operations in the US, with…
Covid and Big Tech are driving Augmented Reality into healthcare
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool has added to a long list of "firsts" in its century-long history by making…
Virtual therapy: Health tech at-a-distance will outlast the Covid status quo
Virtual therapy is virtually everywhere these days. Smart watches can vibrate to hinder PTSD-related episodes during sleep. Companies offer their…