Recent Posts
- Children’s Health Ireland announces that new children’s hospital will be “fully digital”
- Health Tech International Awards 2024: deadline 23 May
- Pan American Health Organization urges adoption of innovative tech to help eliminate TB
- Indian Peerless Hospital launches “humanoid robotics” for joint replacement surgery
- Norway collab seeks to accelerate clinical studies with international marketing support
- US: FDA qualifies Apple Watch’s AFib history feature to be used in clinical studies
- US: Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare calls for innovations in MSK digital health
- Germany: Recare secures €3.2 million euros in funding for digital discharge management platform
- US: Ascension releases statement on cybersecurity event after detecting “unusual activity”
- The Netherlands: MindAffect raises €1.1 million for “brain response-based hearing diagnostic tool”
- Canada Health Infoway launches partnership with Dedalus to advance healthcare interoperability
- WHO and UNICEF launch online course to help mitigate environmental risks to children’s health
- New Da Vinci XI robot set to bring robotic surgeries to Royal Adelaide Hospital
- The Ottawa Hospital in Canada pilots Microsoft AI solution for clinical note taking
- Deep dive: electronic health records, telemedicine and remote care in India
- Collab offers boost to Algerian health tech startups
- California-based Augmedix makes AI documentation solution available across EDs
- “If we are always successful then I’d argue we’re not being innovative at all”: panel discussion on international digital health development
- Exploring virtual and remote care in the Middle East
- Deep dive: digital health in in Slovenia
- Interview: Inderpal Kohli, VP and chief information officer at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey
- Taiwanese hospital receives two HIMSS digital maturity validations
- International open accelerator launches for women’s health and femtech start-ups
- Radiological Society of North America and GE collaborate to support Tanzania breast cancer care
- Tampa Bay Wave opens applications for 2024 HealthTech|X Accelerator
- New Norwegian collab for researchers, startups and pharmaceutical companies
- World Health Organisation announces launch of AI-powered digital health promoter prototype
- Australia’s Minister for Health and Aged Care announces $50m for “Total Artificial Heart”
- Papua New Guinea adopts regional WHO Data Management Competency Framework
- Jordan’s Ministry of Health launches national electronic registry for cystic fibrosis patients
- Digital Health Collaborative launches in the US
- Japan donates $5m to Pan-American Highway for Digital Health initiative
- US-based Emory Healthcare deploys Epic EHR with MacBook Air
- Deep dive: digital health transformation in Japan
- VA and Pentagon announce new progress on roll-out of shared electronic health record system
- South African Altron HealthTech and Dischem Oncology collaborate to standardise EHR data
- Connecticut’s Jefferson Radiology introduces AI-powered tech for CT scanning
- US’s Aptar Digital Health acquires Singapore-based Healint
- Singapore-based Qritive announces collaboration with diagnostic centres and hospitals in India
- US-based Mayo Clinic Platform launches digital health Solutions Studio
- Florida-based Medical Microinstruments raises $110m for microsurgery innovation
- Salesforce launches CRM AI and data innovations for healthcare operations
- Finnish medical device company Sooma raises €5m to fund expansion into new markets
- European Parliament adopts act designed to govern use of AI whilst boosting innovation
- French start-up Sorella secures €5m in funding to enhance tech for women’s health
- Biden-Harris administration on US Core Data for Interoperability Plus Cancer standards
- Saudi-based digital solution provider Elm signs MOU with Gulf Health Council
- France: Dassault Systèmes launches virtual twin of Saint-Louis Hospital’s dialysis unit
- WHO Global Initiative on Digital Health launches with focus on capacity and collaboration
- US researchers develop shape-changing ultrasound “stickers” for patient monitoring
- Gorilla Technology Group wins Thailand bid for intelligent video management and analytics
- Turkey’s Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center highlights “next-gen” health tech
- Digital healthcare hub established in Singapore
- US: Mount Sinai’s Windreich Department of AI and Human Health to establish new fellowship program
- India-based Wellthy Therapeutics joins United Arab Emirates’ TruDoc
- Interview: Tino Marti, digital health economist, on digital health initiatives in Spain
- South Korean med tech company Lunit to acquire AI supplier Volpara
- NLC Health Ventures (Netherlands) secures €58m in funding for health tech venture building
- New Cancer Screening Research Network launched to evaluate tech for cancer care
- US study explores potential of wearable device for asthma care
- German institute shares projects on AI in public health
- HIMSS announces launch of new health infrastructure adoption model
- French consortium explores possibilities of virtual twins for medical practice
- 44 new EU4Health grants mark progress on future European Health Data Space
- Preparedness for the digitalised clinical environment in Australian nursing
- Congressional Digital Health Caucus launched in US to promote collaboration and integration of health tech
- International collaboration sees launch of HealthX, a new digital health platform for insurers
- Germany’s Earlybird Health raises €173m for health tech investment in Europe
- Dubai: 49th Arab Health Expo sees ultra-remote 5G simulated surgery covering distance of 7,000km
- Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago takes systems offline following “evidence of suspicious activity”
- Deep dive: digital health and innovation in Estonia
- New partnership in France to drive innovations in clinical research and AI
- US International Trade Administration reports on opportunities for health tech in Indian markets
- Egypt: $10m investment in digital pharmacy platform Yodawy from Ezdehar Management
- Beijing scientists test brain-computer interface system for rehabilitation of spinal injury patients
- Interview: Sarah Jabbour, University of Michigan, on AI in healthcare
- WHO reports outline threat of cyber-attack and disinformation on healthcare
- European PAIR project launches interactive tools to support point-of-care diagnostics and epidemiological modelling
- Maine’s Northern Light Health takes electronic records offline as computer systems “compromised”
- Finnish health tech company CardioSignal raises $10m for heart disease detection tech
- Journal: views on AI and machine learning in Nigerian healthcare
- Deep dive: digital health in Saudi Arabia
- AI-based risk prediction models for early pancreatic cancer intervention from MIT researchers
- Cambodia Digital Government Policy: advancing digital maturity through infrastructure and connectivity
- Interview: Ricardo Baptista Leite, HealthAI and UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health
- South Australian remote monitoring programme marks milestone
- Journal: opportunities for AI in traditional Chinese medicine
- Indonesia’s Blueprint for Digital Health Transformation Strategy 2024: challenges, integrations, and architecture
- US Department of Health and Human Services finalises rule on interoperability and algorithm transparency
- Guyana’s Ministry of Health evaluating bids for EHR system
- UCLA and UC Irvine researchers create data repository for training and testing AI algorithms
- Digital Health Blueprint 2023-2033 for Australia presents ten-year roadmap
- Deep dive: South Africa – digital health, EHRs, priorities, progress and research
- Amazon announces launch of new Health Condition Programs for chronic conditions
- Interview: John Klepper, CEO and co-founder of Swiss company PIPRA [Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk Assessment]
- Journal explores European validation of AI risk model for individualised breast cancer
- Health in the Austrian Federal Government’s AI strategy
- Fogarty International Center calls for mHealth interventions for low and middle income countries
- European Council and Parliament reach agreement on Artificial Intelligence Act
- World Bank publishes report on digital in health, covering digital maturity and determinants for success