Siilo’s Holiday Gift Guide

As the decade comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to appreciate a community that does so much and is spoken about so little: the healthcare community.

5G is on the horizon. We take a look at some of 5G’s promises, the ways it will impact healthcare, and how Siilo is preparing for the new cellular networks.

The Siilo team made its way to Web Summit 2019 along with 70,000+ others. We reflect on why events like this are important for startups like us.

Early on in our medical careers we watched others taking care of patients and do certain procedures. A lot. We all complained that it takes for ever to go out there. After…

The NHS has unveiled a plan this month to extensively invest in MedTech ventures which the NHS can use to improve patient care. The ​“10 Year Plan” has set out to transform…

By March 2020 the NHS has promised to be ​‘fax free’ and has already banned NHS organizations from buying fax machines. Can you just pull the plug out of the wall and go…

NHS England, NHS Digital, Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care have developed a set of guidelines around the use of instant messaging channels…

Here at Siilo we have a purpose. Our team of software devs are going to change the way healthcare teams communicate. We took a look at today’s healthcare system and thought:…

Secure by design thinking would start with the requirement that your system should be properly protected even if the intimate details of its construction are public. The same…

With the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on the 25^th of May this year, we get a lot of enquiries these days from healthcare institutions…

With General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force in Spring 2018, we explore the legal and practical implications of using mobile messengers in the healthcare…

Since primary care doctors are under such pressure to deliver for a growing and ageing population, they look increasingly to technology to help reduce the burden of work.

Because of security risks, doctors are no longer permitted to use WhatsApp in clinical settings. Health care professionals turn to messengers in the first place for their…

WhatsApp secured their messenger – an effort that was started in 2013 with the help of Moxie Marlinspike. Moxie is the founding father of Signal’s OpenWhisperSystems and his…

Strong security is only as strong as the weakest link. So our security policy is based on three main pillars.

Health care providers rely on staggering amounts of information to help patients. So in the pre-PDA era, all of that had to be remembered correctly, or you would have to…