Friday, October 18, 2024
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 […]
For a recent interview we sat down for a chat with Cheryl Fenwick Evans, previous clinical documentation specialist with Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand. In this role, Cheryl was responsible for helping to launch the Clinical Documentation Programme, which aims to enhance the quality of health information produced […]
Auckland University of Technology has launched a new pathway for paramedicine students created in collaboration with Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, which is set to enable newly graduated students to move straight into studying to become an anaesthetic technician. The pathway is to provide an additional pipeline into […]
Spanish digital healthcare company Mediktor has announced the acquisition of San Franciso-based Sensely, provider of an “empathy-driven” conversation platform designed to support hospital systems and insurance services with member management. The merger of the two companies reportedly helps to develop “one of the largest global AI-based solution providers in the […]
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has published a notice highlighting intention to source solutions and services in support of the vision to “transform national infrastructure and move to a contemporary, structured data-rich ecosystem capable of connecting systems across settings and supporting real-time access to information for the patient and […]
