Health technology
Alternative labels
Medical technology
Medical innovations
Med tech
Medtech
Report
Frontier firms: four industry case studies
This report summarises the findings from case studies of four significant New Zealand industries: Dairy (both farming and processing), Health technology (HealthTech), Horticulture (with a focus on kiwifruit and wine) and Software products and services (Software). The four case studies have identified various opportunities for improving productivity, some industry-specific and some generic.
Report
Securing a positive health care technology legacy from COVID-19
This report explores the challenges of implementing health care technologies and investigates patient and staff experiences of technology during the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic. It draws on learning from the Health Foundation’s programmes and YouGov surveys of over 4,000 UK adults and over 1,000 NHS staff conducted in October 2020.
Discussion paper
Critical technologies discussion paper: health
This discussion paper has been released to identify key critical technology developments, assess risks to and opportunities in Australia’s national interest, and examine the approach of academia, industry and government to critical technologies in the health sector.
Journal article
An empirical meta-analysis of the life sciences linked open data on the web
In this paper, the authors extract schemas from more than 80 biomedical linked open data sources into an Life Sciences Linked Open Data (LSLOD) schema graph and conduct an empirical meta-analysis to evaluate the extent of semantic heterogeneity across the LSLOD cloud.
Briefing paper
Measuring value in new health technology assessments: a focus on robotic surgery in public hospitals
This paper draws on the experience of Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHHS) in Queensland and the processes it undertook to purchase the Mako robotic system for hip and knee replacements and how it was implemented into a major public hospital. The case study provides some insights that can potentially be adapted to a...