GIANT Health weekly Update
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Hello GIANT community member
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Only 7 weeks to go until The GIANT Health Event 2019! We're in full swing preparing for the event and can't wait to see you there!
We also have some news to share, we recently rebranded...GIANT Health Event is now GIANT.health. Scroll down to find out more!
Join us at GIANT this year and immerse yourself in Europe's greatest festival of HealthTech innovation. Find inspiration from leading innovators, world-class speakers and discover the advances in technology that are revolutionising healthcare provision.
Our agenda features track topics including:
5G Future of Health
Wearables, Ingestibles, Implantables
Revolutionising Healthcare with Immersive Tech
Health Insurance - Vision 2025
AI and advanced analytics
Great British Healthtech
And many more...
Our Super Early Bird tickets special offer is still available but there is limited time remaining - the early bird price will end on the 7th September! So get your tickets soon to avoid missing out on this fantastic offer.
Thinking of attending with your colleagues? We have some great value group ticket packages available, saving you hundreds of pounds and giving you some great extra benefits. Find out more...
Barry Shrier, Founder, GIANT Health
@Barry_HealthTec
+44 7776 132 517
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#Beanstalks2019 competition - deadline approaching!
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BEANSTALKS™ at the GIANT Health Event is an international “competition for prizes” for health and care tech start-ups. We welcome early-stage businesses to enter to gain exposure to a prestigious panel of judges under a range of categories around applying technology to better outcomes for health and care.
Do you know a HealthTech startup who should enter BEANSTALKS? If so, send them this email. The deadline is on the 7th of September - under 10 days left to apply!
Let's meet one of this year's Beanstalk's applicants: WYSA
WYSA is an artificial intelligence-based chatbot designed for support and early intervention of emotional wellbeing and mental resilience in adolescents and adults. WYSA is a technician, clinician and user-developed app enabling adults and adolescents to use technology as an enabler for learning more about positive strategies for supporting wellbeing. It can be used alongside traditional therapies for home practice. Its main purpose is to provide easily accessible skills learning to a large cohort of people who do not meet service acceptance criteria and, may otherwise, go without support.
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GIANT Health Event re-brands to GIANT.health
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Europe's greatest festival of HealthTech Innovation partners with dotHealth to provide free .health domain registration to attendees.
Giant Health today announced that it has officially rebranded its web address to the short, meaningful GIANT.health and has partnered with dotHealth to offer free 1st-year registration of .health domain names to all registered attendees of GIANT. Domain registration will be a benefit included in the event registration fee, and attendees will be able to register .health domains in person, on-site at the event which is at Chelsea Football Club Stadium, London, on October 15-16, 2019.
Read the full press release here!
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Swedish telemedicine app secures NHS deal
Nearly two million NHS patients in England will have access to LIVI’s digital services after the Swedish startup inked new partnerships with local GP federations. Through the new collaborations, around 1.85 million patients will be able to use their app to book video consultations with a GP and access medical advice, referrals and prescriptions without having to deregister from their current practice. Read more...
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AI system can yield more accurate breast cancer diagnosis
UCLA researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that could help pathologists read biopsies more accurately and to better detect and diagnose breast cancer.
The new system helps interpret medical images used to diagnose breast cancer that can be difficult for the human eye to classify, and it does so nearly as accurately or better than experienced pathologists.
Read more...
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Luma Health, USA
- $16 million
- Series B funding
- Led by PeakSpan Capital
Luma Health is a communications and appointment scheduling platform. It is currently integrated with more than 70 EHR and practice management systems. This app provides a way to connect patients to care, avoid patient waiting time and find available appointments in clinicians' schedules, whilst matching the right patient to the right care. Read more...
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Exo, USA
- $35 million
- Series B
- Led by Intel Capital
Exo has created a handheld, portable ultrasound that is able to create a 3D image. The company is combining nano-materials, sensor technology and advanced signal processing and computation to create the technology. Their goal is to enable every medical practitioner in the world with affordable and easy to use tools that make imaging accessible. Read more...
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Reasons to be grateful for Health-Tech:
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The number of connected wearable devices worldwide is expected to jump from an estimate of 325 million in 2016 to over 830 million in 2020, with many devices benefiting health.
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Upcoming MeetUp, 12th September. Closing panel of speakers, led by Barry Shrier of Giant Health
Introducing ‘Healthcare Tech Solutions and Innovation Meetup’ an opportunity to network with like-minded people and hear from our industry solution experts.
This meetup will showcase the latest in Healthcare IT Innovation, bringing together thought leadership and industry expertise.
Find out more...
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Apply to the Catalyst Accelerator Programme for tech start-ups
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The Catalyst Accelerator is an intense 6-month programme (beginning in September) of one-to-one mentoring and commercially focused weekly peer group workshops with world-class business leaders. Free places are awarded based on the strength of the business case put forward in the application.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY - only a couple of days left!
Catalyst entrepreneurs benefit from:
- Retaining their equity – no stake is taken by any party involved in Catalyst.
- Introductions to potential investors at the Catalyst Investor Event.
- Completing an investment-ready Business Plan, Management Team Plan and Funding Plan.
- High-level one-to-one mentoring with world-class business leaders.
- Commercially focused weekly peer group workshops.
- Free of charge office and laboratory space for the duration of the programme.
- A £500 cash injection for start-up business expenses.
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Meet Doctorpreneurs, a GIANT Health Innovators programme partner. Doctorpreneurs is a non-profit organisation and global community for doctors, medical students and individuals interested in healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship. We interview established healthcare innovators and entrepreneurs, organise and promote events, and provide career opportunities for entrepreneurial clinicians. Find out more...
Would you like to partner with us on the GIANT Health Innovators programme? Discover the benefits and apply here
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GIANT Health reaches thousands of members of the global HealthTech community.
Get in touch to discuss partnership opportunities.
Barry Shrier, Founder, GIANT Health
@Barry_HealthTec
+44 7776 132 517
PS: If you're recruiting, looking for a hospital trial partner, in fundraising mode, looking for a job...please get in touch and we'll be happy to support you in this newsletter.
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GIANT Health offers part-time and full-time internships and 1-year placements to students in life sciences, business, marketing, finance, medicine, computer science, design, and journalism/media related studies.
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GIANT would like to thank our sponsors for their support, you guys are great!
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