Medical

In these times of national emergency, it is important that we all do whatever we can to help those who are battling on the front line to help keep us safe; Welltek has taken the initiative to provide technology based furniture to a London NHS hospital.

Two versions of its FeedThrough connectors aimed at manufacturers of medical diagnostic and treatment equipment have been launched by Cliff Electronics.

The Uncomplicated Family (TUF) Corporate Group, a group of companies leading global projects in the digital therapeutics space, has announced the launch of Kids Digital Health - a collection of universally accessible serious games and content for children and families with complex needs.

The COVID-19 Volunteer Testing Network has launched to provide essential additional testing capacity to front-line workers. The project, started by Mike Fischer CBE, helps small laboratories convert to run critical antigen testing and identify cases among local healthcare workers - at no cost to Government.

In its recently published report ‘Innovations in Robotic Surgery 2020-2030’, IDTechEx forecasted that the robotic surgery market will reach over $12 billion by 2030. The report breaks down the market landscape and emerging technologies in the field of robotic surgery.

Production quantities of its mass air flow sensors, which are a key component for ventilators and other medical equipment continue to be shipped by Posifa Technologies.

A consortium of significant UK industrial, technology and engineering businesses from across the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors, have come together to produce medical ventilators for the UK.

In the globalised world we live in, entities such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have been established to ensure cooperation between different governments on global healthcare-related issues. By Nish Kotecha, Chairman and Co-founder of Finboot

Thirona, Quirem and Radboudumc have successfully joined forces in the Radiology of the Future project. All three partners are situated in the East of the Netherlands and each has access to knowledge, skills and expertise in the area of smart and fast medical image analysis processing.

Stratasys has announced a global mobilisation of the company’s 3D printing resources and expertise to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning its Stratasys, GrabCAD, Stratasys Direct Manufacturing and partner network with donated printing capacity across all regions. The initial focus is on providing thousands of disposable face shields for use by medical personnel.