Monday, September 16, 2024
Jordan-based Presight, combining big data, analytics and AI to create positive impacts across sectors and industries, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Jordan’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, with focus to “set the pace of digital transformation in the country’s healthcare sector”. Through the contract, Presight will […]
We recently had the opportunity to chat with Kumar Satyam (Satyam), digital health consultant and chair for the technical committee at HL7 India. Satyam discussed his views on the importance of interoperability and de-centralisation within healthcare, sharing examples of his work in this area in practice as well as his […]
In the USA, national non-profit organisations OCHIN and OSIS recently announced that they would enter a formal partnership with the aim of helping to address challenges facing the healthcare delivery system, aligning their capabilities to better support sustainability and accelerate innovation. OCHIN describes itself as a “leader in equitable health […]
Lagos Ministry of Health has shared insight into Lagos SHIP (State Health Information Platform) following recent signing agreements around its launch. Lagos SHIP is described as a “digital healthcare platform designed to boost healthcare services” through the leveraging of Interswitch’s technology infrastructure, creating a “comprehensive” health information system capable of […]
Accenture has announced the acquisition of German healthcare management consultancy consus.health, with the aim of building capabilities around digital transformation and managed services and enhancing consus.health’s reach across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Consus.health provides services including medical strategy, patient management, infrastructure management and construction management services, and has a “strong […]
HOP’EN 2, a funding programme run by the Digital Health Directorate aiming to support digital transformation of healthcare establishments in France, has opened its first applications phase, with health establishments invited to apply to achieve the programme’s objectives. The programme is built around four key objectives, including improving service access […]
Thomson Medical, a provider of healthcare for women and children in Singapore, has gone live with MEDITECH’s electronic medical record Expanse at the maternity-focused Thomson Medical Centre. The centre reportedly sought a solution that could help enhance patient safety and comfort for mothers and babies particularly during the transition between […]
Here at Health Tech News International (HTNI), we are delighted to share the finalists for our first awards programme, exploring innovative ideas and good work across four key categories: driving patient care, start-up of the year, improving efficiencies and outcomes with tech, and innovation of the year. Our awards programme […]
The Department of Health in New Brunswick has launched patient summary functionalities through the province’s health information app, MyHealthNB, in order to support residents to travel across regional and international borders with a “shareable, digital set of basic clinical data”. Citizens can now log into MyHealthNB via app or web […]
Software developer Intron Health has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding with the aim of developing clinical speech recognition technologies in developing countries, with initial focus on countries within Africa. Intron Health reports that its speech recognition platform is capable of identifying more than 200 accents, developed through a “robust […]
