The Threat Healthcare runs on trust — but its digital backbone is fragile. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer will run Shor’s algorithm, breaking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. That means everything from EHRs to connected pacemakers is at risk. And the danger isn’t hypothetical. Adversaries are already engaging in “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” (HNDL) — collecting encrypted medical…
Hospitals want evidence, investors want traction: this week mixed the two: GI diagnostics, insulin delivery, genomics M&A. And sprinkled in fresh CE marks for surgical robots. People on the move Data4Life (DE), a digital health nonprofit backed by SAP founder, Hasso Plattner, appoints Dr. Ben Illigens as CEO to steer its health data and research…
The Promise Pharma spends billions on R&D only to see 90% of drug candidates fail in trials. At the heart of the problem: chemistry is a quantum system, but we’ve been simulating it with classical approximations. Quantum computing, in principle, can simulate molecules and protein folding with physics-native precision, potentially cutting years and billions from discovery…
This week’s highlights: a landmark UK medtech exit, a €403 million EU funding boost for AI-powered devices, and strategic momentum building across Europe for medtech commercialization. Otherwise it seems we are on annual leave. People on the move No newly reported high-level hires, board moves, or fund leadership changes in the European medtech/digital health sector…
Quantum computing is the latest shiny object in healthcare IT. Headlines trumpet its ability to solve the unsolvable, to accelerate drug discovery, and to personalise medicine at a level classical AI can only dream of. The reality, however, is a little noisier, literally. In 2025, we are firmly in what researchers call the NISQ era….
AI meets approvals, mental health consolidates, and early-stage device builders get fuel — a tidy week for cardiology/ophthalmology AI, workflow rollouts, and surgical tools. People on the move CMR Surgical: Chris O’Hara joins as Commercial President & GM (U.S.) to drive Versius robot expansion following FDA authorization; signals Cambridge-based CMR’s acceleration of global go-to-market. Mr….
A crisp week: AI diagnostics raised, sports concussion wearables funded, a Dutch conversational-AI startup got scooped up, and the UK nudged its devices policy closer to home care. People on the move Jade Leung has been appointed as the UK’s Prime Minister’s AI Adviser while continuing as CTO at the AI Safety Institute; expect ripple…
Stop calling Poland a nearshore Poland isn’t just shipping code for someone else’s roadmap. It’s producing digital health products used by tens of millions, and it’s hosting serious pharma/biotech tech operations—not just shared services. If you still think of it as a low‑cost back office, you’re reading a 2015 brochure. Poland healthtech at a glance…
(Week of Aug 2–8, 2025) August might be peak out-of-office, but Europe’s medtech builders didn’t pack it in. Cardiology AI is scaling, workflow AI is cutting admin drag, and evidence-backed devices are crossing borders. People Investor POV: Marta Gaia Zanchi, Founding Partner at Nina Capital, speaking on healthtech hype vs. reality—data moats, regulatory timing, and evidence…
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