Siilo

By  Tammy Lovell 05:54 am July 30, 2020
Siilo, the secure collaboration app for healthcare workers, has announced a raise of €9.5 milliion in Series A funding.  European digital health VC Heal Capital is at the forefront of the investment, backed by Germany’s private health insurers. Also participating in the round are Philips Health Technology Venture Fund and current investor EQT Ventures.  WHAT IT DOES  Founded in 2016 by former...
By  Tammy Lovell 04:42 am April 3, 2019
Research at St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has found the use of WhatsApp in the NHS to be “a privacy and clinical safety timebomb”, according to a press announcement. A soon-to-be published study of 77 staff members in the trauma and orthopaedics department revealed that 87 percent of staff used smartphone apps to discuss patient cases at work, despite 56 percent not being...