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Recovering after surgery can mean keeping track of medications, symptoms, wound care, activity guidance and follow-up plans.
We created the EMDA HealthTech Surgical Recovery Planner to help keep that information organised in one place.
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What if a chest CT could spot an early oesophageal cancer nobody was looking for?
A new AI system achieved 87.1% sensitivity for stage I disease, versus 59.8% on average among radiologists in a reader study.
Could we get more from scans we're already doing?
#HealthTech #AI
The study involved 80,000+ patients across 12 centres in 3 countries.
Promising—but this doesn't yet prove that AI-based CT screening improves cancer outcomes.
Read more: nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
What if the surgeon who could save your life was 150 miles away?
A neurosurgeon remotely performed a robotic thrombectomy on a stroke patient in Panama.
Now the system has FDA Breakthrough Device designation.
Could robotics eventually move expertise instead of patients?
Telesurgery isn't simply “remote control.”
It raises serious questions around latency, connectivity, cybersecurity, emergency backup and credentialing.
And FDA Breakthrough designation ≠ FDA approval.
Source: medtechdive.com/news/telerob…
What if AI could move an urgent CT scan to the front of the queue?
A newly FDA-cleared system flags 10 suspected findings on abdominal/pelvic CT - including appendicitis, internal bleeding, and organ injury - for prioritised review.
#HealthcareAI #HealthTech
The key point:
AI flags → radiologist reviews → clinician decides.
It's a triage tool, not autonomous diagnosis.
Sometimes AI's biggest value may simply be helping clinicians identify what needs attention first.
Source: itnonline.com/content/a2z-ra…
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The NHS could save £33bn a year by 2040 and prevent up to 20,600 deaths annually by improving productivity through better use of technology, staff and capital, a Health Foundation commission has found.
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Martha’s Rule is to be expanded to A&Es across England.
Patients, loved ones and NHS staff will be able to call a dedicated number to request an urgent review if a patient’s condition is getting worse and they’re concerned it’s not being listened to.
➡️ england.nhs.uk/2026/09/nhs-t…
ALT Elderly patient holding hands with a loved one in a hospital, highlighting Martha's Rule expansion in England's A&E departments.
What if you could swallow a medical device, and its battery disappeared when its job was finished?
Researchers have developed a bioresorbable battery that powered ingestible devices for several days in pigs.
#HealthTech #MedTech
Temporary electronics could become an interesting new frontier in medicine.
Source: research published in Nature Chemical Engineering; reported 21 September 2026
Would you let a robot perform your colonoscopy?
The FDA has cleared the Triton 1 robotic endoscopy system for procedures throughout the colon.
But the robot isn't replacing the doctor - the endoscopist remains in control.
#HealthTech #Robotics #Endoscopy
The bigger idea:
Colonoscopy → advanced endoscopy → robot-assisted endoscopy
Potential benefits include stability and ergonomics, but we still need evidence showing whether robotics improves clinical outcomes.
Source: accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/c…
Medical AI may be entering its foundation-model era.
DeepHealth has received FDA clearance for a chest X-ray AI built on its medical-imaging foundation model.
The bigger idea:
One broad AI foundation → multiple specialised clinical tools.
#HealthTech #AI
Important distinction: clearance of this application does not automatically clear future tools built from the same foundation model.
But this could represent an important shift in how medical AI is developed.
Source: deephealth.com/news-articles…
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While heart disease remains the number one killer globally, for both men and women, 2 recent major clinical trials failed and some are saying we've "maxxed" out. My conversation w/ @MariosGeorgakis gets deep into what went wrong and where to go from here
erictopol.substack.com/p/why…
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Biological aging of the whole body and our organs is sex-specific. A systematic assessment with 38 aging clocks across 14 organs and the immune system
BAG is the biological age gap. Implications for disease susceptibility and response to treatments
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
💊 What if AI could help scientists discover the next medicine?
Novo is bringing Claude Science into R&D to tackle drug-discovery and biological-reasoning problems.
AI is moving deeper into the science behind healthcare.
#HealthTech #AI #DrugDiscovery
Important distinction:
This doesn't mean AI has discovered a successful drug.
Novo will initially test Claude Science in selected R&D workflows, with human oversight.
But the direction is fascinating.
Read more: novonordisk.com/news-and-med…
Could an eye scan reveal signs of atrial fibrillation years before diagnosis?
A study of >90,000 people found retinal changes associated with AF — including changes present years before clinical presentation.
#HealthTech #Oculomics
Read study: journals.plos.org/digitalhea…