News for Clinical Informatics and Big Data

Scientists hope to revolutionise the way patients with heart conditions are monitored with a new app. Researchers at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre have begun the second phase of a study that allows doctors to monitor around the clock the weight, heart rate and blood oxygen levels of patients who have heart conditions. Read more on … Read more

A donated human liver has been ‘kept alive’ outside a human being and then successfully transplanted into a patient in need of a new liver. So far the groundbreaking procedure has been performed on two patients on the liver transplant waiting list and both are making excellent recoveries. Currently transplantation depends on preserving donor organs … Read more

A new Oxford spin-out, OxeHealth, spun out from Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will allow a patient’s health to be monitored using a webcam and a software application. The software will detect the patient’s heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation even in artificial light without the need for any physical contact or additional hardware. … Read more

Professor Lionel Tarassenko is the theme leader for the Bioengineering, Innovation & Technology research theme at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.  On Feb 22 he gave a talk hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering on how mobile technology is being used in modern healthcare settings. Professor Tarassenko is the author of 120 refereed publications, 125 conference papers, … Read more