Healthcare & Life Sciences

News and insight on critical strategic trends and technological innovations within the health technology and life sciences sectors. Life Science technologies include various fields within the biomedical sector including biological data analytics, bioinformatics, advances in biomaterials and bioelectronics, biomedical engineering, as well as the neuroscience sector.

Is HIPAA enough to protect patient privacy in the digital era?

It’s well known that HIPAA was developed and enacted in order to protect patient privacy, enforce patient rights, and ensure that patient information is kept confidential. But it was first passed in 1996, which was a totally different era.

Cloud & Edge Computing

How Solidsoft Reply helps healthcare and pharma companies

Charles Young from Solidsoft Reply spoke to Information Age about how the company helps healthcare and pharma companies, particularly via its development of an effective controlled drug administration system

Cloud & Edge Computing

Overcoming cybersecurity concerns in healthcare

Gaurav Agarwaal, Senior Vice-President: Global Lead - Managed Security Service and Industry Security Solutions at Avanade, spoke to Information Age about how healthcare organisations, alongside a partnering IT service provider, can overcome cybersecurity threats

Cloud & Edge Computing

How edge computing is mitigating challenges in life sciences

Life science organisations have shown their ability to perform incredible feats, empowered by robust, sustainable and scalable infrastructure systems. In this article, we explore how edge is enabling the next leaps in life sciences innovation

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Talend and Snowflake support patient data management for mental health charity

UK charity Mental Health Concern has been working with Talend and Snowflake to leverage data-driven insights and improved agility for better patient data management.

AI & Machine Learning

BioNTech acquires InstaDeep for £562m to boost drug discovery efforts

Following a multi-year partnership, German biotech company BioNTech has completed the acquisition of UK AI startup InstaDeep, to aid expansion beyond vaccine delivery.