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Wearables technologies are advanced computer devices, worn on the body, collecting data, tracking activities and providing personalised experiences. These technologies are a subset of a larger network of ‘smart devices’ known as the “Internet of things”, IoT for...

Imagine a situation where your project is delayed by six months due to supplier issues, and you're left in the dark with unresponsive suppliers.This is the narrative behind the birth of SupplyWorks, a new online platform we are developing, fuelled by our own...

In this second blog on Startup Ethically, I discuss practical steps to address key supply chain risks. In part 1, I described the challenges to creating high quality ethical products and how recent legislative changes have made this question unavoidable. In...

Senti is a medical device startup working to create innovative healthcare solutions and do so ethically. This presents significant challenges. In this piece, founder Phil Alton shares his ideas for working with other like-minded startup businesses, to develop a...

AI in Health Today Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a health problem. Perhaps it’s nothing more than performance anxiety, but every time an AI is deployed in the real world to solve a problem in healthcare, it falls spectacularly short. Promising lab-validated work is...

In our last post (Creating real-world healthcare Artificial Intelligence), we discussed that the failure of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make a real impact in the messy world of health is a story of impossible decisions: knowing perfectly or acting perfectly — with...

MIT researchers recently published a paper purporting to demonstrate the ability to perfectly detect Covid-19 in people with no symptoms, simply by getting them to cough.